AMA - VIR a few more to come

Hey steve, I remember seeing you in the stands! You were right by the turn 4 gazebo weren't you? Hit me up later, I'll be at Road Atlanta either thursday or friday of race week.

I like what I see but #1 is just out of focus.

Jbaz: Yeah I was there and all around up and down the fence line all day. Not sure what you look like, but maybe we will talk first part of race week to make meet plans or something....

rcg: yeah it is OOF, I took a coupel dozen with my 500 at 1/125 and just couldnt quite get it sharp holding that beast. I will get better results next race.

Steve Beck wrote in post #3763320
THANKS DANN22!!

Yeah it was great meeting a fellow POTN'r out in the real world. It sure was hot out there and I am still paying for it today.

Thanks for the comments my friend. Heading to Atlanta by chance? I will be there from friday morning till sunday night, if so give me a shout on here before hand I'll give ya my cell.

Originally I couldn't justify the 10 hour drive, but after going thru my shots, I just might have to make the trip and to somemore practice.

Steve Beck wrote in post #3774681
Jbaz: Yeah I was there and all around up and down the fence line all day. Not sure what you look like, but maybe we will talk first part of race week to make meet plans or something....

rcg: yeah it is OOF, I took a coupel dozen with my 500 at 1/125 and just couldnt quite get it sharp holding that beast. I will get better results next race.

Don't take that comment wrong... I like what you were doing just that first one didnt deserve to be there with your other greta pics. Certainly the 500 is right at the limit HH shooting and 125 keep rate would obviously be less - Rock on!

Ah no worries rcg, didnt take the wrong way. I really appreciate you taking the time to comment.

Very cool photos.

dann22 wrote in post #3778254
Originally I couldn't justify the 10 hour drive, but after going thru my shots, I just might have to make the trip and to somemore practice.

Yeah dann2, Road Atlanta is a awesome track. I know where all the good spots are i have been shooting 6-7 events a year for the last 6 years there. Let me know if you decide to make it down.

Thanks click-it.

Looks like I'm heading down to Atlanta next wednesday night. Setup shop Thursday for photo shoots with various teams. If your going, we should definately meet up.

I like these shots Steve. I'm not a big fan of the tight crop. You lose the sense of speed in the shot. Thanks for sharing these.

thanks jdizzle appreciate the comments. I sweated off about 20lbs that day hustling around the track several times. I hope to sweat off about 40lbs this coming week. heheh

I was hand holding my camera with the 300 f/2.8 that I borrowed from another photographer and I couldn't hold it up for more than 10 mins.

I handheld the mk3 and 500 for half the day then went to a monopod the rest of the day on saturday. Sunday I handheld for some shiots depending on what Iw as trying to do. Other then that it stayd on the monopod.

I need to get a good sturdy monopod with a swivel head. I don't like mine being fixed and it can't support anymore more then the 70-200, which is fine for right now. I just use the monopod propped onto my arm, acting like another support arm instead of it extended out on the ground. I've had pretty good results doing that way. Looks kinda funny, but it definately takes the load off and feels very stable. Was doing that the whole time out there, and didn't get worn out a bit.

If I get a 300 or 500, I'm gonna built myself a rotating lock support system on my waist, similar to the gun mounts you see on the top of Military Hummer's so I can articulate it to where I need the camera and lens to be. If you've seen mobile mounts for soldiers that use mini-guns, same thing, except I won't be shooting lead... They actually take those mounting systems off huey's and blackbirds. But they aren't practical in the field since miniguns, powerpacks, and ammo would be 100+lbs.