danja

Hi all,

Well...I went to the Malton Forest Rally and got absolutely soddin drenched to the bone, my poor D50 got wet and then when we got into the car and the temperature got up, the D50 stopped working and gave up on me.

Condensation must have built up and so I had to remove the battery, memory car and open all covers so that it could dry on the way home and luckily once home it did begin to work again. Now I have waterproof covering for the camera inthe pipeline for when it next rains lol!

Anyway, crap light didn't help, pouring rain and general misserable conditions meant I was shooting ISO 800, manual F4 and shutter 1/320 to try and get some half decent images. Below are some of the better ones, I'll put a link to the main gallery too should anybody wish to view

Thanks, hope you like

All images: http://www.djaphoto.co.uk/gallery/ma...g2_itemId=2267

Robs Frst

Nice pics

danja

Cheers pal

dakar

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Never new this was on,the first two cars i know both the lads,geoff mcneil in the first pic is very quick

danja

He was going well Dakar, proper throwing it around lol

p.cressie

great pics

Brian

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Excellent pictures


Brian

Adam R4

Awsome Pics!

One question though - do you use manual or auto focus? ive mostly been using manual as i find auto cannot focus fast enough for motorsports?

Rax

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I likey,thanks for sharing

Charlie Chalk

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Top draw as per, Dan how do you find out about these events, Would love to go to some!

danja

Thanks for commenting everyone, didn't expect many good comments but looking again the images aren't bad and the gritty rainy weather adds to the feel of them, so I'm quite pleased.

Adam, I use auto focus but change my setting to 'c-af' which is continuous. This allows me to focus on the car and 'track him' until I see the shot I want. As it moves anyway, the lens will keep focusing on it accordingly. Never liked manual focus, the rally cars are all over the place and makes for frustrating shooting in manual

Rad, I use a good site called britishrally.co.uk - has all the up and coming events and I just pop onto the photography forums and check the motorsport sections and check people previous images from those rallies

Allyc85

Quality shots as always!

next rally for me is Wyedean which is aaages away

ballin

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Always love your pics! I have no idea what all that ISO stuff means you said, but I wish I did!!

danja

Cheers Allyc, glad you like

I shall be at Wyedean too, love that rally but as you say is aaaaages away. might do a couple more yet before xmas, nice and cold lol.

Thanks Ballin, glad you keep looking and enjoying I can point you in the right direction if you would like to learn ?

Charlie Chalk

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Forgot I asked about this, Cheers for the reply


Enough info on this site, let alone the internet if you ever want to learn

Rossco

Photos look spot on to me, good work!

benjaminsarmy

pro

ballin

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I've tried reading it a few times, too technical for me when I have too many other things I am trying to get my head around as well if you see what I mean!!!
I'm happy enough letting other people master it and just looking at the results

KSA-Cossie

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Cool pics m8,did you run a website or something before,the name seems familiar ??

WongRS

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Beautiful pics there mate
Looks a moist one!

danja

Thanks for the replies, much appreciated

KSA: I used to run cruisecultre.net ages and ages ago, other than that no. Only website I run now is my own for Motorsports Photography