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V8 Supercars at Indy

Postby Slider on Mon Oct 24, 2005 12:07 am

All taken from the Holiday Inn (Friday and Sunday)

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Postby BBJ on Mon Oct 24, 2005 12:09 am

Fantastic Mark i love them all, Great pics and love the flame throwers but yeh seems like a good spot to get pics from.
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Postby Jeff on Mon Oct 24, 2005 6:14 am

Hi
Great shots gotta love those V8s

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Postby PiroStitch on Mon Oct 24, 2005 9:59 am

Great shots! :D Gee don't think he went too close in the 2nd pic ;)

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Postby robw25 on Mon Oct 24, 2005 12:14 pm

hey mark .. nice shots #4 is the one i like ( a tad dark ) well done

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Postby mrbillf on Mon Oct 24, 2005 12:46 pm

Great shots, love them all. My fav is the 2nd one with the Dodo car brake locking and BANG up the back of Murphy's. Great colours the V8's make on pictures.

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Postby Slider on Mon Oct 24, 2005 7:09 pm

Thanks folks.

Piro, it was Nikkor 80-400 VR (courtesy of Oneputt, have to save my pennies :D )

Bill, I have a few others in the same sequence. He was definately giving him a bit of a touch up.

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Postby hARDWARE on Mon Oct 24, 2005 7:13 pm

Great shots. Love the shots of Richards having a nibble at Murphy.

Nice spot for shooting too.

Good to see you kept the lens on the cars!
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Postby hame on Mon Oct 24, 2005 7:43 pm

Great clear pics Slider. I like the first one.. only thing better would have been seeing Lounds win Batherst as well !! Next year
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Postby Slider on Mon Oct 24, 2005 8:06 pm

Thanks guys.

Here is another one of the lad at work :D

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Postby mudder on Mon Oct 24, 2005 8:29 pm

Some great shots there, looks like a good vantage point
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Postby kinetic on Mon Oct 24, 2005 9:20 pm

:mrgreen:
This is me - green with envy.
#1 - you got to spend lots of time watching the cars
#2 - your shots are awesome.
Ahhhhhhhh.
I particularly like the bumper to bumper shots!
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Postby Slider on Mon Oct 24, 2005 9:36 pm

Thanks Mudder and Kinetic.

It is very hard at Surfers to get a spot with no FENCES but still reasonably low down.

Thankfully my hosts at Holiday Inn have a nice gap in the trees from the 2nd floor restaurant. Enabled me to get some nice shots. :D

In between drinks, prawns, oysters etc. etc. :lol: Tough job but someone's got to do it. 8)
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Postby mudder on Mon Oct 24, 2005 9:41 pm

Slider wrote:... In between drinks, prawns, oysters etc. etc. :lol: Tough job but someone's got to do it. 8)


Ah, now you're just gloating... As I would too if I was there! :)
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Postby Slider on Mon Oct 24, 2005 9:45 pm

mudder wrote:
Slider wrote:... In between drinks, prawns, oysters etc. etc. :lol: Tough job but someone's got to do it. 8)


Ah, now you're just gloating... As I would too if I was there! :)


Couldn't resist :twisted: :wink:
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Postby drifter on Mon Oct 24, 2005 9:54 pm

Nice shots Mark . I really like the 2nd shot of Richards and Murphy .The colour looks really bang on it and i like the composition .
The two of Lowndes look like they need a little bit of a bump of contrast/saturation and the McConville shot with the flames looks a bit dark . Did you shoot these RAW or jpeg ?

Looks like it was a great weekend up there . Amazing how they spend a month turning the place upside down and inside out to host that race for one weekend then pack it all away again.
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Postby Manta on Mon Oct 24, 2005 10:12 pm

Suberb shots Mark - congratulations on some real pole-position images!

My fav is the side-by-side of Johnson & Kelly. PS - Don't forget your mates next year!!! :wink:
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Postby Slider on Mon Oct 24, 2005 10:37 pm

Thanks Tony , Simon,

Tony, Here is another with some of teh adjustments you suggested.

It was very overcast there on Friday. This one seems to be better yellows but I am not so sure about teh blue. Might have overdone it. What do you think.

Shot in Jpeg (mode Ia) to squeeze more in and give faster multi-shot sequences.

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Postby drifter on Tue Oct 25, 2005 6:35 pm

Hey Mark . Yep that looks better . I find yellows are a tough colour to rescue when it isn't right straight out of the gun .Over exposed or under.I've had some luck with photoshop using the match colour adjustment .
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Postby BBJ on Tue Oct 25, 2005 6:39 pm

Might be over done, but i love it and really it is not that bad looks like lots of contrast. love it, love it looks cool and these were great shots.
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Postby Raskill on Tue Oct 25, 2005 7:10 pm

Slider,

Great shots mate. I know the hassles in getting V8's to look good.

Did you try any panning slow shutter shots?

I like the different angle, makes a nice change from the usual side on shots that most of us poor folk are stuck with :roll:

I like the contrast in the Lowndes falcon that you just posted. I find the Supercars look nice with the brightness lowered and contrast pumped up, gives a nice 'magazine' feel to the image.

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Postby Slider on Tue Oct 25, 2005 7:35 pm

Thanks BBJ, Raskill,


Couldn't really get a good position for panning at a slower speed from where I was (without going through the fence). I usually take a few like that to get the nice blurred wheels and background. Great for showjumping too :D

Got a few from pit lane. This one's at 1/160 @ f/22

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