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Simon Harrison
8th of March 2005 (Tue), 14:30
Well the Rallycross at Croft Circuit was cancelled last weekend because of the melting snow and danger of flooding, so I headed down to the Melbourne Airfield (at old WW II airbase) for the Lookout Stages Rally. Managed to meet up with Ian_H who was also down there.

Here's a few photographs from the day. To start with it was very dull, but by mid morning the sun had burnt the cloud off giving some lovely light. For shots 1 to 3 I was able to get nice and low on the exit of one of the chicanes used to slow the cars on the long straights and get a nice tight shot using my 300mm f4 L and 1.4 TC. Shot 4 was panned using my 70-200mm f4 L at 1/80 sec.

#1
http://www.srh-motorsport-photography.com/pic1.jpg

#2
http://www.srh-motorsport-photography.com/pic2.jpg

#3
http://www.srh-motorsport-photography.com/pic3.jpg

#4
http://www.srh-motorsport-photography.com/pic5.jpg

For a couple of the head on shots, maybe could have done with a slightly slower shutter speed to give a little more movement in the wheels.

Any constructive criticism would be gratefully recieved.

Cheers,

Simon.
Dandaman_24
8th of March 2005 (Tue), 14:44
Great shots.

Did you use a polarising filter with these shots ?
Simon Harrison
8th of March 2005 (Tue), 14:55
Great shots.

Did you use a polarising filter with these shots ?

Thanks.

No, I didn't use a polariser. Both lens had UV filters on them, but nothing else. The shots were taken in RAW and then post processed using ACR and PS CS.

Cheers,

Simon.
Dandaman_24
8th of March 2005 (Tue), 14:58
With my car shots i always get glare off the windscreen, i thought you had used a polarising filter as glass is so clear and you can actually see the drivers in the background.
Simon Harrison
8th of March 2005 (Tue), 15:13
I spent quite a bit of time before the rally started and in between each stage studying the layout of each stage in relation to where the sun was going to be. I was trying to keep the sun behind me, but also slightly to one side so that it wasn't bouncing straight off the windscreen, and hopefully giving a bit of sidelighting through the side windows of the cars.

It's easier to do this on a SV rally like Melbourne, as it's very flat and open with no real trees etc around.

Cheers,

Simon.
IanBMW
8th of March 2005 (Tue), 16:16
Ya keep em coming....i soo envy ya'll....why cant we replace nascar with rally racing in USA.