Vintage Racing

mercphoto

I went to the vintage races at COTA on Saturday and had a blast. This is by far the best bang for buck for the spectator. Inexpensive tickets, garage and paddock access, and several decades worth of racing cars. I shot everything with my E-M10, the 12-42 and 40-150 consumer-grade kit lenses, and a circular polarizer. Camera was set to RAW+JPG, set to monochrome. I've posted unmodified in-camera black and whites here.

PB050270 by Bill Jurasz, on Flickr

PB050292 by Bill Jurasz, on Flickr

PB050346 by Bill Jurasz, on Flickr

PB050220 by Bill Jurasz, on Flickr

PB050201 by Bill Jurasz, on Flickr

PB050190 by Bill Jurasz, on Flickr

PB050142 by Bill Jurasz, on Flickr

PB050104 by Bill Jurasz, on Flickr

PB050062 by Bill Jurasz, on Flickr

PB050046 by Bill Jurasz, on Flickr

Even more here:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/bjurasz/albums/72157676093922186/page1

mercphoto

And for grins, color versions. Processed from RAW files in Aperture 3.0.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/bjurasz/albums/72157676629430665

jmphotocraft

Nice Bill, I enjoyed looking at these. Looks like a few could use some tighter crops though?

mercphoto

jmphotocraft wrote: »

Nice Bill, I enjoyed looking at these. Looks like a few could use some tighter crops though?

Thanks Jack. And yes, I could have used more lens reach. Or cropping.

petrochemist

Nice shots, the B&W conversion has work really well with these older cars.
Shame about the top of the crash fencing on the lower panning shots, but it's all too often more in the way than that!
My personal favorite is the 4th of these.