Bulldog International Rally 2009

Yesterday was the 1st outing with my 'fixed' MKIII since it's return from Canon. Quite alarmingly I had two in focus images from the 1st ten cars ... this lead to a frantic mashing through the custom functions and numerous expletives!

Eventually managed to get the thing to focus ... and once the focus had locked it tracked the subject perfectly. Anyway a few photos from the event ...

1.

Superb shots mate. 1, 5 and 7 are great shots from almost ground level.
Too bad if you have to tweak your body to get it focus properly.
That should happen out of the box IMO

even with problems, you got nice shots . I like 1, 5 and 7(antenna distroy this nice mk1)

I got same feeling with my 1Dmk3 yesterday when i shooting my friends testing I was totally lost with new body, but i adjust only af speed a bit slower, it helps a little. Still i am not satisfied, but i need learn and testing more..i dont know where i should start with my dark lens

really liking the low down shots and No3 just because its different to the norm

Cracking set Jay. The shallow DoF you are getting from that lens is amazing. I always enjoy looking at your posts as your shooting style and pictures are always spot on for me.
Once you adjusted your mk3 did you notice any better performance than before you sent it in to Canon? Mines getting picked up on tuesday, so hoping it comes back comes back minus a couple of issues i seem to have.

Kev

2nd, 5th and 7th are great shots.

That Lancia looks awesome.

Chris

Great colours and variation of shots ,Jay.

I went with Rhodri and had a great day out in the "variable weather".

The Stratos is my pick and the Escort in 5,do love crest shots !

Glad you managed to sort the beast !

Regards,
Pons

Semmonka wrote in post #7621549
Superb shots mate. 1, 5 and 7 are great shots from almost ground level.
Too bad if you have to tweak your body to get it focus properly.
That should happen out of the box IMO

Cheers mate. The camera was reasonable before I sent it for the 'repair', but as I mentioned, once Canon had performed their AF adjustment it needed a major tweak to the custom functions to make it perform. Fingers crossed I've got it set right now!

petris wrote in post #7621590
even with problems, you got nice shots . I like 1, 5 and 7(antenna distroy this nice mk1)

I got same feeling with my 1Dmk3 yesterday when i shooting my friends testing I was totally lost with new body, but i adjust only af speed a bit slower, it helps a little. Still i am not satisfied, but i need learn and testing more..i dont know where i should start with my dark lens

Thanks Petris. Certainly slowing down the AI Servo tracking sensitivity helped me yesterday. Maybe the camera was just too sensative and was focusing on the torrential rain we had at the time

Rallytim wrote in post #7621746
really liking the low down shots and No3 just because its different to the norm

Cheers Tim. I must admit I was pleased with the way No.3 turned out.

KevB wrote in post #7621846
Cracking set Jay. The shallow DoF you are getting from that lens is amazing. I always enjoy looking at your posts as your shooting style and pictures are always spot on for me.
Once you adjusted your mk3 did you notice any better performance than before you sent it in to Canon? Mines getting picked up on tuesday, so hoping it comes back comes back minus a couple of issues i seem to have.

Kev

Thanks Kev, thats very nice of you to say. Despite the horrendous conditions and at times poor light I was pretty much sat at ISO 100 all day. f2 lenses are the future lol

Once I reconfigured the camera is was superb much better than before the Canon AF adjustment. Will give it an extended test over in Portugal this week.

chris78cpr wrote in post #7621958
2nd, 5th and 7th are great shots.

That Lancia looks awesome.

Chris

Cheers Chris. Yeah that Lancia is one hell of a fine looking fine .... pity there arent a few more of them around.

Nice subtle shots Jay, glad you sorted your settings out pretty quickly

Nice series of your usual high standard, particularly like the framing of the MK1's . Always a good variety of shots and enjoyed the selection on the website also.

Big Ant wrote in post #7622327
Nice subtle shots Jay, glad you sorted your settings out pretty quickly

Subtle?

The bl**dy thing came close to being slung into the bushes .. the toys were almost out of the pram

kipper wrote in post #7622897
Nice series of your usual high standard, particularly like the framing of the MK1's . Always a good variety of shots and enjoyed the selection on the website also.

Cheers Kipper, thats very kind of you. On the drive home I was running through the shots from the day in my head and felt I didnt really capture enough variety ... looking at the stuff on the PC, I kind of wish I'd tried a few more things.

No need to throw it in the bushes Jay, i'd have gladly taken it off you

Good stuff as usual Jay,

Love the composition of some of them fair play!
bit of PS to take the colour down of the arrow in 1&4 would leave them being even more WOW dont mean to sound harsh

out of interest what settings and lens were used for the brake shot?

What was with the re-call with the mk3? was just about to try a deal with getting one after speaking to the bank manager tomorrow but im touch and go whether i'll end up with one of the problematic versions..

Regards,
Jon.S

jon.s wrote in post #7624503
Good stuff as usual Jay,

Love the composition of some of them fair play!
bit of PS to take the colour down of the arrow in 1&4 would leave them being even more WOW dont mean to sound harsh

out of interest what settings and lens were used for the brake shot?

What was with the re-call with the mk3? was just about to try a deal with getting one after speaking to the bank manager tomorrow but im touch and go whether i'll end up with one of the problematic versions..

Regards,
Jon.S

Cheers Jon. Not harsh at all mate, will have a look a desaturating the arrows a little to see how they turn out.

The brake shot was taken with the 85mm f1.2 ... the exif says f/5.6 but I'm I could have sworn it was taken at f/8.

The recall of the MKIII was due to Canon apparently finding a new 'fix' for the AF. Some cameras (I suspect the older ones) needed parts changing .. mine just needed a software AF adjustment. As I've mentioned, once I reconfigured the custom functions the camera performed brilliantly, in fact better than it's ever done.

Nice set of pictures!