Annual Midwest Spring/Fall Area Meet in Chicago

[aiya]

Too much talking...more pictures!

i kid I kid. Can't wait to see more!

 

[Ed@TunerStore]

^OK, OK... last teaser for tonight... :moon:

 

[jdTrader]

Here are my panning shots from various locations on Saturday....


20130914-DSC_5966 by jdTraderMI, on Flickr


20130914-DSC_5990 by jdTraderMI, on Flickr


20130914-DSC_6404 by jdTraderMI, on Flickr


20130914-DSC_6414 by jdTraderMI, on Flickr


20130914-DSC_6517 by jdTraderMI, on Flickr


20130914-DSC_6550 by jdTraderMI, on Flickr


20130914-DSC_6597 by jdTraderMI, on Flickr


20130914-DSC_6663 by jdTraderMI, on Flickr


20130914-DSC_6711 by jdTraderMI, on Flickr


20130914-DSC_6728 by jdTraderMI, on Flickr

This last one was with Andrew driving my FX when we were at BP. I'm pretty sure he was going 45+ based on how fast I remember him going by and having to turn the camera. You can see the background lines look more spherical because of how fast I must had been following through with the camera from left to right with 1/20 shutter.


20130914-DSC_6088 by jdTraderMI, on Flickr

 

[Ed@TunerStore]

Very nice Jonas :good:, love the pictures from the full frame camera, so different...

 

[GEE50FX]

Great pictures, I sure wish I could have been there.

Keep all those wonderful pictures coming :good:

 

[blueduck1105]

Yea the shots look great Jonas! The one outside of BP came out better than I thought it would have.

Can't wait to see what else you have.

 

[DaveButcher]

I really like the way my panning shot came out! Rips is beautiful as well!

 

[jdTrader]

Very nice Jonas :good:, love the pictures from the full frame camera, so different...

Thanks zebra.

Here is the secret I think is more important than full frame or cropped factor......

I went for high risk high reward. I did 1/20 shutter for all these. When I asked u u said u were doing 1/60? Much easier to take focused pic that way but backgrounds won't look like this. I took a few at 1/60 I can post them but they look nothing at all like these. They are more focused but the background is much less blurred. I will tell u below why I picked 1/20.

The other factor is remember how I emphasized the extreme pro sdcard with its 90 mb sec write speed? I could take many pictures in raw per second to try to get at least a few decent shots. On some runs I took > 10 shots per car no problem. The card is a big deal for these situations.

And then of course steady hands vertical and horizontal moving. I practiced holding camera for a long time prior to meet trying not to use tripod and then looking at pictures on the computer. I practiced and practiced until I can get at least no blur down to 1/15. That is why I picked 1/20. I knew that was my minimum. Heck if I practiced and practiced and noticed I can hold the camera good enough for 1 second, I would had used 1 second. I base what shutter to use not on Internet recommendation but what I personally can accomplish with a good enough probability. Make sense? I suggest u find your sweet spot lowest u can hold well with good enough probability and go with that.

Personally I think those are the secrets. The full frame just gives more of the frame but u can just get a wider cropped lens, more light in, and then lens is big factor to image quality but u can get high quality lenses for cropped too. The composition, blurry background, focus etc is all not because of full frame.

I still found it work best for me with single focus point point because I tried to focus in center of car. 3d was jumping all over for me and sometimes off the car which I didn't like and those didn't turn out. I found 3d is a little like auto and I would rather pic the focus manually instead of having the camera guess where the focus should be.

One other thing. I always have my VR turned off. Opposite of what I think most will say but I heard bad things with VR or image stabilization like sacrifices image quality, bad on battery life, and I didn't know how it would affect these type of shots so I always have it off. I hear good things too about it and it does work, but personally on my camera it is always off.

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By the way, these images are heavily edited. Originals look quite different...cars less crisp.

That is why it's taking so long to post these photos....

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wow look at Dave's ride in Large 2048 size. Pay particular attention to the rear and front bumpers and the middle where his face is as far as focus....several of these are like this, however it's a nice touch how you can see Dave clearly.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/101836349@N03/9769413726/sizes/k/in/photostream/

 

[GEE50FX]

^OK, OK... last teaser for tonight... :moon:

Sweet pic Zee


Jonas, that enlarged pic of Dave is really cool, such detail even on his face.

 

[jdTrader]

^ You can see me looking at Zee in this picture. I remember this exact moment because i was thinking Zee picked a great angle....he's going to get a great shot and it is!

 

[PMG 705]

Very nice pics fellas! Keep them coming.

Did anyone get a pic of Highlyrecruited's FX? Not sure what it was that he hit on the hwy, but it took off half his bumper!





TapaTalkin'

 

[la_fx35]

I got this pic before the cruise. I'm pretty sure it was missing since he got to the meet.

 

[jdTrader]

Very nice pics fellas! Keep them coming.

Did anyone get a pic of Highlyrecruited's FX? Not sure what it was that he hit on the hwy, but it took off half his bumper!

I didn't even know he got a front aero lip. Last meet he didn't have one and this time when I saw his FX it didn't have it. That's how I easily see if it's him or you!

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Andy, Zebra, you guys still editing the panning shots?

I should be posting the rolling shots from the highway sometime soon but it would be nice to get all the panning together first.

 

[la_fx35]

Sorry guys, my panning shots didn't turn out at all.

 

[PMG 705]

I got this pic before the cruise. I'm pretty sure it was missing since he got to the meet.

Yeah, from the looks of it he ran over a deer or something. His bumper has a huge Underbite.



TapaTalkin'

 

[Ed@TunerStore]

I will post all the shots today/tomorrow

 

[la_fx35]

This is the only panning shot that I think worth post up.

 

[jdTrader]

^ this is similar to how mine looked at 1/60 shutter. What shutter were you using Andy?

I couldn't get the shutter any slower than 1/60 (I wasn't fancy like Zebra with a NF filter!) I need one of these!

So I switched to my kit lens so I can increase the f/stop even more so I could get the shutter down to 1/20. I so wish I had a NF filter for this shoot.

 

[juanitto21]

Looks like I missed out on a great meet! Sucks that I had to work last minute... Guess I'm going to have to wait till the next one.

Keep the pics coming guys! BTW the rolling shots look bad ass!!!

 

[jdTrader]

I have 12 highway rolling shots that made the cut and are almost done editing. Should be posting here any minute!!