What Paul said. Sweet!

On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 8:21 PM, Paul Stenquist <[email protected]> wrote:
> Excellent, John. The Alonso shot belongs in a frame over the bar at a 
> restaurant in Maranello. Although I suspect it would look good in your den as 
> well.
>
> Paul
> On Dec 4, 2012, at 4:13 PM, John Francis <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 12:45:38PM -0500, John Francis wrote:
>>>
>>> Mind you, COTA is the best of the modern tracks by a long way, IMO.
>>> And we had perfect weather, and a great race with actual racing on
>>> track, and only a couple of miner mechanical incidents. It was even
>>> possible to get reasonable shots from our grandstand (albeit limited
>>> to just a single viewpoint, of course), and the track policy limiting
>>> lenses to at most 10" in length (quite generous, from what I've seen)
>>> meant that the 60-250 was no problem (and 150mm-200mm was what was
>>> needed for a single-car shot with a sightline above the fencing).
>>>
>>> Pictures will follow at some point, but at the moment I'm moving to
>>> a new computer (so I can run LR4), and taking this as an opportunity
>>> to review the way I organise my images. Given my slight tendency to
>>> procrastinate I have no idea when I'll be set up to process the shots.
>>
>> As promised (or threatened :-), here are a few images from the weekend.
>> Despite being limited to essentially just a single viewpoint (and with
>> internal reflections from the 60-250 showing up in a couple of the shots)
>> I did come home with some images I'm happy with. I haven't got LR set up
>> yet, so these are just preliminaries (using Camera Raw in PS Elements).
>>
>> Probably the best shot I got overall.  The guy didn't win the race, or
>> the championship (although he was still in contention for both), but
>> that doesn't matter to the Ferrari faithful:
>>
>>    http://www.jfwaf.com/USGP/Alonso.jpg
>>
>> Here's the guy who did win the race:
>>
>>    http://www.jfwaf.com/USGP/Hamilton.jpg
>>
>> And here's the guy who won his third straight championship a week later:
>>
>>    http://www.jfwaf.com/USGP/Vettel.jpg
>>
>> This was the last-but-one race for the most successful F1 driver ever:
>>
>>    http://www.jfwaf.com/USGP/Schumacher.jpg
>>
>> And this is the guy my wife and I were waving the flag for:
>>
>>    http://www.jfwaf.com/USGP/Button.jpg
>>
>>
>> All shots taken with the K-5 and the 60-250.
>>
>> At this point on the circuit the cars are going around 150 - 160 MPH, so
>> at a shutter speed of 1/320 or so there's enough motion blur to show up
>> in the background (assuming I get the pan right; if I don't, then the car
>> doesn't look sharp) - the car moves around 8" during the exposure.
>>
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