Alphera Dutton Rally, QLD

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Alphera Dutton Rally, QLD

Postby Jonas on Tue Aug 01, 2006 10:34 am

This three days event was held at various locations across SE Queensland but I turned out just for the Broadwater carpark event on the Gold Coast.

The limitations of the Sigma 70-300DG were quite interesting. Knowing how soft it can be at 300mm wide open, I stoppped down to about f9 to get a bit of sharpness. However, that obviously increased the depth of field and instead of having a nice blurred background to make the car stand out, the background became almost a second point of interest. It made me think about framing and composition in different ways.

The full album can be viewed at http://www.flickr.com/photos/jonasphoto ... 217845844/

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jonasphoto/202284112/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/74/202284112_130c40261b.jpg" width="500" height="333" border="0" alt="Ford Escort, turn three" /></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jonasphoto/202284115/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/67/202284115_789a7927fd.jpg" width="333" height="500" border= "0" alt="Ford Mustang, back straight braking" /></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jonasphoto/202284118/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/61/202284118_bac3131c4c.jpg" width="500" height="333" border="0"alt="Yellow Ford Escort, finish line" /></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jonasphoto/202284111/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/72/202284111_b7331b1832.jpg" width="333" height="500" border="0" alt="Commodore driver" /></a>
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Postby Glen on Tue Aug 01, 2006 11:25 am

Nice stuff Jonas. Looks like a good day. Am I right there is only 14 photos?
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Postby Jonas on Tue Aug 01, 2006 12:16 pm

Cheers Glen. Yep, 14 of the best. I took about 300 over the two days but a lot of that was experimenting with panning - which is a lot harder than I thought!
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