Pirelli International ... My Take

A few photos from Friday and Saturdays Pirelli Rally .... would go as far to say my favorite event of the year so far. The majority were taken with the 'too slow for motorsport' 5DMKII which incidentially beats my 1DMKIII hands down for focus accuracy.

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Even "not sports camera & lousy AF" can take that good pictures. I'll like much more that pictures from Portugal rally. Saw a few better on your site. Still, great captures here, and Hyundai is my no 1.
My first rally has been canceled and rest are very ? for this season (due to simple reason - no money and just 10-15 drivers in the whole country - who are not professionals (mostly) just an amateur drivers).
I think i need to go to UK or somewhere else.

Another good set Jay, Better once on the website from the rally but they still good.

Proton looks super ( well looked super )

Nice set Jay, great lighting and plenty of action

Love the shot of the Imp on your site

Cracking stuff Jay, well worth the long drive. The shot of Wilks is my favourite here, you can see the determination in his eyes - real shame how it ended for him.

Agree with chaps above, some absolutely stunning shots on the website and for a man who says "I don't do 3/4 shots", if I could take some as good as that I'd be delighted!

All the best,

Rhod.

Nice set.

@jbanbury
Because of my bad english,i did not understand if the 5MkII is slow in autofocusing during motorsports shooting,or if you call it "slow" because of the low fps.Can you please make it easier to understand?

andreasthess wrote in post #7761426
Nice set.

@jbanbury
Because of my bad english,i did not understand if the 5MkII is slow in autofocusing during motorsports shooting,or if you call it "slow" because of the low fps.Can you please make it easier to understand?

I join the team Please try to explain as simply as possible:o

BTW. Nice shots... Saab for me..

As ever you produce something others don't always see.
Great shots if I had to pick favourites it would have to be 4,5 and 7, purely because I'm an oldish git and I love yesteryears cars and not a procession of Subarus, Focus's and citreons.
I love #3 purely because of those crazy kids, we've all stood (still do) in 'darwin award' places

great set of pictures as ever Jay

rich_cooper wrote in post #7760690
Another good set Jay, Better once on the website from the rally but they still good.

Proton looks super ( well looked super )

Cheers Rich, maybe I should take more care when choosing which images to post on here from the selection I put on my site.

Big Ant wrote in post #7760945
Nice set Jay, great lighting and plenty of action

Love the shot of the Imp on your site

Thanks Ant. Shame you couldnt make it mate ... like I said best event I've done this year.

Rhodri.Lew10 wrote in post #7760991
Cracking stuff Jay, well worth the long drive. The shot of Wilks is my favourite here, you can see the determination in his eyes - real shame how it ended for him.

Agree with chaps above, some absolutely stunning shots on the website and for a man who says "I don't do 3/4 shots", if I could take some as good as that I'd be delighted!

All the best,

Rhod.

Cheers Rhod, appreciate the comments about the stuff on the website. I thought I'd try a few 3/4 ish type shots for a change .. pretty happy with the results.

What I do find odd is that the images on here dont look anywhere near as sharp as the ones that are hosted on my website. Maybe photobucket are doing some kind of compression on them. Anyone suggest a new file hosted service?

petris wrote in post #7761511
I join the team Please try to explain as simply as possible:o

BTW. Nice shots... Saab for me..

I'm constantly reading that the 5DMKII isnt that great for sports photography due to it's AF and FPS performance. Well my 5D will be my primary camera for all events from now on.

sector-1 wrote in post #7761612
As ever you produce something others don't always see.
Great shots if I had to pick favourites it would have to be 4,5 and 7, purely because I'm an oldish git and I love yesteryears cars and not a procession of Subarus, Focus's and citreons.
I love #3 purely because of those crazy kids, we've all stood (still do) in 'darwin award' places

Cheers , you just cant beat historic cars ... they are just so photogenic!

Rallytim wrote in post #7761705
great set of pictures as ever Jay

Cheers Tim, it's certainly the sharpest set of photos I've ever returned from a rally with.

Interesting shots

Do you not preserve the EXIF info on them

No I always save them to web in PS ... just re-hosted the images (away from photobucket) which now look much better.

jbanbury wrote in post #7762319
I'm constantly reading that the 5DMKII isnt that great for sports photography due to it's AF and FPS performance. Well my 5D will be my primary camera for all events from now on.

- are you bought 5D again?

Petris you're confusing me now!

Yes I have both a 1DMKIII and a 5DMKII.

Thanks Ant. Shame you couldnt make it mate ... like I said best event I've done this year.

Sorry Jay but the birth of my son took place just a SS1 started on Friday