Chris L

This will be the first of a few threads. Ive got loads of pics, so I will split them up. These were taken at the shakedown / service area and official start on Thursday night.

Petter


New Skoda


Danger of Death???


These were taken while walking to the service area












At Service






Official start in Trier. Petter playing to the crowd






In Parc Ferme - Nice touch from Subaru for Mark Lovell and Roger Freeman






More to come...

Chris&Sal

[Edited by Chris L - 7/29/2003 12:38:07 PM]

Ghostdog

Very nice pictures there mate, the cars look so sweet, hope you had fun!

SU3ARU

Chris

Excellent photos, what camera did you use?

Looking forward to the next installment

Peter

Chris L

We had a great time - fantastic rally to go and watch. Drivers weren't too keen on it though. We had a chat with Derek Ringer and he said they hated it. Very dangerous in bits, narrow roads with a lot of crap on them. Nasty concrete blocks on the military stages etc etc

Camera is a Fuji FinePix 2800 - 2Meg with 6x optical zoom. Got some really nice shots with it.

Chris

SU3ARU

Going to my first WRC in Catalunya later this year and am looking forward to getting some good shots.

Have done a bit of rally photography last year, but any hints/tips you have would be most welcome.

Cheers
Peter

Paulo P

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Chris

I think that's the same camera that I have. How do you use it for action shots? I always find that what I want to take a photo of has gone by the time the camera has taken the picture

Paul

siwrx

i see the skoda is now imitating subarus spoiler design

Chris L

Peter

The Cat is great - easily the best event I've been to because it is good mix of rallying and night life. It's a real party town and the teams love it.

Paul - not easy mate! There is a fair degree of anticipation. What I do is usually leave the camera on automatic and half depress the shutter. This will freeze the light level and shutter speed. You should then get a near instant picture. Still not quite like an SLR, but not far off it.

Also try using the continuous shot option. It will take 4 frames in quick succession if you keep the shutte depressed. Bit of a leap in the dark, as you can't see what you are taking, but the results can be quite good. I've got a few shots taken with this feature that I will post up later.

I feel like I'm running a photography clinic here! Don't think I'll being doing Josh out of a job just yet though! The only real tips I would give would be have patience, look for unusual angles and don't waste too much time behind the camera, as you end up missing the cars!

Cheers
Chris

Paulo P

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Chris

I tend to try and press half way but when I tried to take photos of moving objects they were F1 cars

Paul

Chris L

Yep I failed totally with F1 cars aswell

Think i need a better camera for that!

Chris

rb5 286

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paul, i have a coolpix 880 and reading the manual the other day u can change the settings or use the 'M' setting which allows u to take a pic instantly and also change shutter speeds to get action shots or moving objects

its a bit to take in all at once but after a few attempts and reading it a couple of times u understand it all.

as someone else said, holding the button halfway down helps as u have the camera ready to snap.

i had a bit of test run at Billing on sunday messing around with apertures and shutter speeds, exposures. needed it with the colours of some of the cars there

see pics here


btw top rally pics, i missed all the coverage on tv over the w/e, gutted. really wanted to see this one.

Sti Guy

I found the best way was to turn your camera to manual, whack the shutter speed up to max, open the aperture full, if the light is bad adjust the brightness and manually set the focus. Take a few test shots, if it is too dark or bright play arround a bit, but only drop the shutter speed if all else fails.

I had mine static on a tripod and got the cars and the background sharp using this method.

Hope to post some pics soon!

kotaro

what's up with the weird side mirrors on the 206 on the shakedown?

they have some sort of air inlets?...

nice pics BTW

[Edited by kotaro - 7/31/2003 12:12:15 AM]

Danny Fisher

I bet the German police didnt put speed cameras up for extra revenue....

Dan

DaveR

two things IMO

- that new Skoda actually looks quite phat!!!!
- the Scooby spoiler looks TOTALLY rubbish, almost like a kid designed it out of a shoebox or something

Paul .G

Nice Pics
Yet again I tell my self......Must go to a WRC tarmac event