Formula 3 & Gt racing

Seamus

The British Formula 3 & Gt championships are at Mondello Park, Ireland this weekend. A couple of pics from todays practice:


The two ferraris in this pic are first and second in the gt championship.







Bruno Senna, afaik a nephew of Aryton Senna



and on the track




Shay.

SnapHappy

nice set of shots. Especially like the back end shot of the ferrari's.

Seamus

SnapHappy wrote:

nice set of shots. Especially like the back end shot of the ferrari's.

It's the only one I really like as well. Thanks Darren.

maczippy

Hey Seamus!

The Ferrari shot is nice, although (and it's just a suggestion) you might want to crop a little closer (to remove the sky and pylon) and maybe give it a little rotation (left side down) just to create some off kilter interest.

By cropping and removing the white sky and plyon, you *might* be able to pull out some heat haze from the back of the cars.

Nice colour btw.

Andrew

(Shame the hand is in the way with the helmet portrait...)

Seamus

maczippy wrote:

Hey Seamus!

The Ferrari shot is nice, although (and it's just a suggestion) you might want to crop a little closer (to remove the sky and pylon) and maybe give it a little rotation (left side down) just to create some off kilter interest.

By cropping and removing the white sky and plyon, you *might* be able to pull out some heat haze from the back of the cars.

Nice colour btw.

Andrew

(Shame the hand is in the way with the helmet portrait...)

Thanks for the help Andrew, I really appreciate it .

I cropped the first shot :



I have been looking at your pics and I did notice that you rotate some of your pics. I don't think this one can be improved much but I'm going back tomorrow for the racing so I can try again

Thanks again for the help,

Shay.

maczippy

I think it would look a bit better rotated the other way (i get my lefts and right mixed up you know - ask my wife...)...

As for rotating, I usually do it whilst shooting rather than in post. It's odd but I keep track of what I shoot and think, okay, I have that, now lets go into wacky mode and do a batch in one way (in fact it has been noted by others witnessing said camera tilting that the camera eventually ends almost upside down..)

But going back to your image, do you see how it brought out the heat from the cars?

Do you shoot RAW or full size jpegs?

Andrew:0

gus

Always nice to see your racing shots seamus. We should do a swap one day as your sky is grey & background vivd green...my sky is blue with dead grass for a back drop.

Seamus

Humungus wrote:

Always nice to see your racing shots seamus. We should do a swap one day as your sky is grey & background vivd green...my sky is blue with dead grass for a back drop.

anytime Gus , it's going into winter here, rain and gales for 7 months. I got absolutely soaked last thursday on the bike, i spent the entire journey cursing my ancestors for being so law abiding. Why couldn't they have stolen some of trevallion's corn

The pics today weren't great, practice is needed for photogs as well as drivers ,

Hopefully I will get some better ones tomorrow.

gus

Seamus wrote:

Why couldn't they have stolen some of trevallion's corn

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ian408

These are some nice shots! I like what you did with the angle too. My
fave is probably the helmet portrait. Though it's too bad about the
guy standing in front.

Ian