Bulldog Rally 2008
Decided to go for higher shutter speeds this time. Kind of a mixed bag really. I think for the deep trench on the side of the track that the cars kept sliding into I could have done with a higher shutter speed to freeze the dirt more. However light was limited. I was already on iso 400 with between a 250th and 350th shutter and the lens wide open. Also because it was an old manual lens (my trusty 135mm Super Takumar) I did keep missing crucial focus as I tried to be clever by follow focussing the cars when I really should have locked down at a certain point.
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I've also shot some rallys including Sweden world rally in Winter with low light and I know it's not easy!
You captured some of the action nicely!
I would think maybe some little post processing would give you a little more pop if you so desired
Ford Escort for the previous poster but not sure if you got that model in the States
Cheers, Jase
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How have you found the best way to approach these events? I was videoing the last event I went to as official media. But when I'm doing stills I am just doing it as a hobbyist. Most of these BTRDA series rallies can be easy to get good positions in. They are still heavily marshalled, but they seem to allow quite a bit of freedom to walk along the track and get other positions. Though usually the spectator points are on the best corners.
However the WRC Rally of Wales can be a complete pain to get any position that is worth taking a photo from! Do you take your WRC photos as part of official media or as a hobbyist? Theoretically it should be possible to go in other positions in the Welsh forests because they are often crisscrossed with public footpaths and bridleways that are open to the public. So I'm not really sure how they can keep stopping people from going to better places.
Most of the time the official spectator points are miles away from the cars (ie you need a 300mm lens to get any sort of decent shot of the car!) and often really high up so you are always looking down on them. It is really frustrating!
Yeah. I quickly used the Tiffen DFX demo on these as I wanted to know what it could do. I'm not sure how to make them pop a bit more though since there aren't many strong colours. I could try going the other way and making a bleach bypass effect.
Yep, its a good old Ford Escort. Possibly the best balanced rally car ever made. Always spectacular to watch. This one in particular got a bit hairy as it came out of that corner!
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Just as a hobbyist and it was a while ago now.. but I found that talking nicely to the officials in the area and just asking politely seemed to get a long way. To the point that I was able to get in the official photographers area on several corners of the Swedish WRC without any official pass. Of course some of the guys would just see you with a 70-200 f2.8 + 50mm / 28-70mm f2.8 and backpack etc and assume you were pro anyway
Had similar experience with Chateux d'Oex (sp?) balloon festival
I also shot as a hobbyist at one of the British rallys about 10 years ago - fond memories with my 75-300mm (not fast glass) of close, closer CLOSEST and then jumping into a ditch on the side of the road and getting showered by stones
But on that rally it was really easy to hike in a bit and get some awesome shots on the inside of the corners as the cars were sliding around.
Yeah the only thing I found with rallys was that you had to walk for _ages_ to get to a decent point to get photos...
Not sure - I'm on work PC at the moment not at home so don't have PS or LR2 ... but was just thinking with a bit of tweaking with fill light and some clarity it might pop a little more
Cheers, Jase
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