As we personally as a group find the official photo's bland and shit Ian.G as a member of our group took our photo's

Being up loaded as we speak...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/derbyshire_rsoc/

 

if anyone wants these they are A1 printable.....for free

 

good pics Steve, pity there are not a few more.

your car went well today,plenty of sideways action at Redgate.

 

good detail at 1/80

 

dave he has has 7gig of photo's to upload so just taking a while

 

thats ok then.

 

nice car that, did it blow up?, heard it making a right funny knocking noise into a corner, which went away on a straight? never seen it again after that lap

 

no wheel nuts came loose ,was fine after i sorted them was back out next session

p/s mint pics

 

Top pictures!

 

nice 1 mate, sounded harsh when you passed us, glad its ok, was lookin fast prior to that

 

jesus what happened ther then tim?

good job you got to them before the wheels went for a trundle on their own

 

dunno when i put the 888,s on at home i must have forgot to torque them up doh,they were only just loose but it made a right noise lol

 

 

Dingy, you car never fails to impress mate! Every year i enjoy watching you give it some round there, nice sideways arse out on first bend pal Sounded like a rocket down the pit straight Nice one

Enjoyed the bit of track i saw

 

dingy
your car was looking very quick
tim needs a quieter exhaust so he doesnt let off for the sound meter

 

 

Glad you like the pictures. Here are a few more

























Thanks for your kind words - the lens I was using yesterday is awesome for getting shots like these (Canon 70-200mm f2.8 L USM IS). The camera body is only an entry level cropped frame DSLR (Canon 450D) so with the 1.6x aspect ratio this lens gives effectively 328mm of maxium zoom even though is only 200mm. Once you get used to tracking the car well whilst panning and following through you get a fairly good hit rate. Out of 450 that I took I ended up with 190 clear ones which is not bad I guess. The hardest shots to get were the cars slowing into the esses as you have to slow your pan in time with the car slowing down - its pretty hard to predict with some of you who were brave on the anchors.

The good thing for me yesterday is that I didn't have to try and keep track photo punters happy ensuring that I got 20+ photographs of each car so they could go on a dvds. If I did have to do this I would have had to whack up the shutter speed to make sure I got more good shots from what I took and in doing so completely freeze out the action so the cars and the background look stationary. When a car is closing on a corner at 120+mph it needs to look like its actually moving. The key here is accuracy in panning when framing the shot...you really need to be able to anticipate the change in speed of the car so it stays sharp and the background becomes blurred and thrown out of focus. Depending upon speed you can go as low as 1/60th - but I find 1/80th works best for cars on circuit or drifting.

Hopefully next year my car will be running and I'll be driving instead of walking round the track all day LOL.

Also a big thanks to Emma for making sure I could get where I needed to get to actually get some of these photos.

 

some nice piccys there pal and timbo you are a crazy fool ahhhahaha

 

Stunning pics

 

Was Mike R not there?

How did the new FRS do on track?

 

Awesome pics!

 

some great pics there mate well done

 

Very cool photos


If you have any of a black Saph going round would love to see them

 

This is probably you I guess.



Thanks again for all your kind words. Photography for me is a hobby and not a day job so I am flattered you like what I have done.

 

Helen will love that picture mate!

Have you got it in high res that you can email to her?

 

Very nice, did you get any of YUM, Cheers

 

What a cool photo of my car


Thank you

 

Uber cool pictures there Ian - very very impressed ! Best I've seen TBH !

 

Great pics and way better then the stuff the pro's are trying to sell from the same event!

Don't suppose you got any of the red mk5 RS2000?

I have looked through a few forums of peoples posts of track pics for this event and even though there are pics of cars in my session, there are none of the mk5!

 

Cracking pictures mate thanks for sharing

 

I obviously have all the original RAW files captured from a 12.1pixel sensor so they work out at about 4290x2856 pixels - big enough for A2 prints. I was quite carful when taking the shots so they haven't been cropped down a huge amount so most are near that resolution.

 

i'v hear different things about yum floating about this forum i din't realise i was watching it all afternoon till you stoped by the stands i was like ohhh thats yum
was it your girl friend/wife driving late on she was driving well.

 

Yes it was helen driving at the 4pm session, l was on at the 3pm session

The only reason we put YUM on was that the saph gearbox let go down crainers so we went over to the Fast Ford stand and collected YUM and thought l wonder how my laps would l get in

Cheers for the comments

 

Nice one.

Im sure Helen or Dave will be in touch then

 

here you go



I have applied no special photoshop magic to any of these shots so they are as they are straight from the camera with slight colour adjustments to compensate for the changeable lighting on the day.

Thanks again for your kind words.

 

fantastic shots Ian well done really captures the sensation of speed

 

Thank you, nice to get good comments

 

the thing that really really fucks me off about national day is that some people who dont even own fords let alone a rs can get in and on track but as im not a propper rsoc member cant

think that needs sorting out

its a rsoc day or its not

it should be for all rs car owners nothing else

 

Its an RSOC club members day, so track action is intended for RSOC members, that seems fair enough to me.
I suspect if the rule was RS cars only, they wouldnt sell all the slots, which would make the event unviable economically.

Would mean thinks like Ian's Focus cosworth wouldnt be allowed out too, which would be a real shame!

 

really nice shots!