My pix from Rally for Charity Event

rallymaniac

hey guys, here is a few pix from the event that we had at my local autoklub week ago:









you can view rest of them in my gallery here:
http://rallymaniac.smugmug.com/gallery/1112030

BBones

The blue car shot is great!!!!

illuminati919

The subaru looks sweet, looks a little soft though. But other then that it looks great. I wish we had even like that around phoenix.

ScottMcLeod

That subaru shot is definitely a keeper. Damn!

I think you pretty much NAILED that one (exposure, compensation, shutter speed, etc...)

Se7enUK

I agree the Subaru is a great shot

gus

They are pretty smick hot shots RM.

Would you share the post process with us that got them so smooth ?

Poindexter

Like everyone else is saying the STI shot is awesome

I also like the second shot of the Evo 8 - I have a feeling it lost some of its detail in the flying mud being downsized for web display.

rallymaniac

thank you all for your comments
the subaru shot was taken at 1/160 F7.1 ISO 200. I used panning to get the motion and given that the car was going sideways, the foreground is blurred too. The WB was set to "cloudy" . I didn't like how the lights were right in my camera but didn't have too much choice at that time. It was either to take that shot or not, but now i kinda like it. Most of those action shots were done using Shutter priority. Post exposure involved just some sharpening, color, levels and contrast "pumping", not too much, just to make it look nicer :
I agree that downsizing "ate" some details, but it's still pretty good for action shots.

gus

Thanks for your tips here RM...we would be pleased to have you hang around

luckydog

Great shots and nice tips...but what did you use (lenses) and is it best to be at a corner to shoot them as they come into it or set up past the corner and catch their exit? :
My boss is a rally nut and they start their '06 season next month, so I thought it might be worth a visit to take some photos.

rallymaniac

thanx again guys, i really like this forum. tons of info here. Maybe i'm not one of the ones who spend lots of time here but i browse alot when i need info and try to post some too.
Those shots were taken with my cheapo Tamron 75-300 tele. I don't have too much money to throw into expensive equipment, but i'm trying to make the best of what i have
Rally photography is difficult and different. I'm still not great at it but if you practice and look what other people make of it, you can learn a lot. There is this one Polish guy, his name is Kalamus and he just takes amazing pix during rallies. I'll try to post a link to some of his galleries for you guys to see it. I try to use some of his ideas on how to take good shots. The key seems to be to show the story with different composition for every shot. And it's true because who wants to see same shot over and over with just different car in it.
Oh my, long post

rallymaniac

here is the link to the galery of Dominik Kalamus, guy who takes unreal rally pictures and currently is my idol when it comes to this type of work

http://autoklub.pl/index.php?page=galeria&id=1118909485&

Peace

jweatherson

fantastic! Rally racing is the greatest motor sport, I really love the cars and the drivers I think have unlimited talent. The shots are really great, like others have said the subaru looks amazing in that drift.
WELL done

ScottMcLeod

jweatherson wrote:

fantastic! Rally racing is the greatest motor sport, I really love the cars and the drivers I think have unlimited talent. The shots are really great, like others have said the subaru looks amazing in that drift.
WELL done

Could not have put it better.

SamirD

Wow! Very nice shots. I cover rallycross events regularly and have the same challenges. But with only my Panasonic dmc-fz20 and my Sony dsc-f828, the lack of a really strong zoom makes it hard to get shots like that. I've lucked out here and there. Amazing stuff. Keep it up!

rallymaniac

thanx for kind words again :