Oulton Park Track Day 7th May 2005

[rg-tom]

Went to the track day with a few photographers, including SDK^ who posts here. Here's the results (well after a few pictures of the people we were with's sweet sweet rides :))

The M3 CSL was tracking but the m5 on the left wasn't, I tell you though the m5 does move :D (thanks to the owner of it for givin me a ride to and from oulton:)

http://twilight-photography.co.uk/gallery/Canon_EOS-20D/Cars/1.jpg

http://twilight-photography.co.uk/gallery/Canon_EOS-20D/Cars/2.jpg

http://twilight-photography.co.uk/gallery/Canon_EOS-20D/Cars/3.jpg


And now for the track action:

[1]

http://twilight-photography.co.uk/gallery/Canon_EOS-20D/Motorsports/01.jpg

[2]

http://twilight-photography.co.uk/gallery/Canon_EOS-20D/Motorsports/02.jpg

[3]

http://twilight-photography.co.uk/gallery/Canon_EOS-20D/Motorsports/03.jpg

[4]

http://twilight-photography.co.uk/gallery/Canon_EOS-20D/Motorsports/04.jpg

[5]

http://twilight-photography.co.uk/gallery/Canon_EOS-20D/Motorsports/05.jpg

[6]

http://twilight-photography.co.uk/gallery/Canon_EOS-20D/Motorsports/06.jpg

[7]

http://twilight-photography.co.uk/gallery/Canon_EOS-20D/Motorsports/07.jpg

[8]

http://twilight-photography.co.uk/gallery/Canon_EOS-20D/Motorsports/08.jpg

[9]

http://twilight-photography.co.uk/gallery/Canon_EOS-20D/Motorsports/09.jpg

[10]

http://twilight-photography.co.uk/gallery/Canon_EOS-20D/Motorsports/10.jpg

[11]

http://twilight-photography.co.uk/gallery/Canon_EOS-20D/Motorsports/11.jpg

[12]

http://twilight-photography.co.uk/gallery/Canon_EOS-20D/Motorsports/12.jpg

Thoughts on how to improve them would be nice, as well as opinions :) About 2/3rds of them were shot manual focus with my 135mm Zeiss in AV mode on the 20D, and about 1/3rd with the 100-400L IS that SDK^ let me try in TV @ 250th with AI servo and C.Fn4.3. The car park photos were with the kit lens though :o

All ISO100 of course :)

Cheers

Tom

[andygrif]

All excellent of course! I really like the orange Elise shot...nice panning!

[rg-tom]

thanks it was an experimental shot at 1/6th of a second,

this was my first attempt at motorsport panning except 2 or 3 shots of jet ski's on a lake last weekend as preperation :)

[SDK^]

It was great to meet you, always good to put a name to a face :)
I also like the orange Exige photo, the blur is perfect

[rg-tom]

thanks SDK^, good to meet you too and thanks again for letting me use that lovely lens :)

[KennyG]

I know where they were taken from, as I work there. Why so heavily saturated? It spoils some nice shots.

[rg-tom]

KennyG, I'm think my monitor is waaaaaaaaaay off calibration wise :( They look pretty much dead on for saturation here, but I've had 2 comments about 2 different sets of photos that the saturation is too much....will have to look into gettin a better monitor, thanks for the comments.

[rg-tom]

hey kenny,

i've re-converted all the track images and moved the saturation in CS2's raw editor back to 0, are they any better?

thanks

tom.

[PhotosGuy]

Nice shots! Love #6 & the shot of the old "7"!
Here's some info on calibrating your monitor:
Monitor Calibration for Gamma - click thru "Monitor Gamma" link & adjust with Adobe Gamma.
http://epaperpress.com/monitorcal/index.html