New Jersey Motorsports Park Ferrari Challenge

All taken with 50D & EF 70-200mm f/2.8 L IS with B+W 77mm MRC Circular Polarizer. Your comments are appreciated.


All cropped to a 3:1 ratio


(1) Tv 1/100, Av 10.0, ISO Speed 100, Focal Length 130.0mm


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(2) Tv 1/125, Av 8.0, ISO Speed 100, Focal Length 85.0mm


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(3) Tv 1/125, Av 9.0, ISO Speed 100, Focal Length 100.0mm


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Well - colors, contrast, panning all are superb!! [H]


Perfect panning, clean background, subject (the car) is tack sharp.


The only problem? the crop ratio - the height is too short I think.

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Originally Posted by Mark Elberson

All taken with 50D & EF 70-200mm f/2.8 L IS with B+W 77mm MRC Circular Polarizer. Your comments are appreciated.

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Well done!!


Da&%*^&#&%!#........ and Ilobby so hard against IS!!


Actually, that is exactly the very technique that IS is best for. And you have demonstrated it quite well my friend.


That's some nice wall art. The low crop is cool but I'd center the cars vertically. I'd love to see what's above the barrier. Especially if it's motion blurred.

Mark-


If I had known you were taking my picture that day, I would have worn my clean helmet...

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Well - colors, contrast, panning all are superb!! [img]/emoticons/emotion-11.gif[/img]


Perfect panning, clean background, subject (the car) is tack sharp.

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Thanks!

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The only problem? the crop ratio - the height is too short I think.
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I actually like this ratio for these cars since they are so long and short but I do think they would look better if the car was centered to the frame top to bottom. The fact is that the background is an ugly munipal airport and panning at 1/125 didn't make that look much better.

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Originally Posted by Chuck Lee

Well done!!


Da&amp;%*^&amp;#&amp;%!#........ and Ilobby so hard against IS!!


Actually, that is exactly the very technique that IS is best for. And you have demonstrated it quite well my friend.

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Thanks!

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Originally Posted by Chuck Lee

That's some nice wall art. The low crop is cool but I'd center the cars vertically. I'd love to see what's above the barrier. Especially if it's motion blurred.
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Like I said:

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The fact is that the background is an ugly munipal airport and panning at 1/125 didn't make that look much better.
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Here's what you're missing though:


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I agree about the center crop.... I actually like the stuff flying by up top, the green is kinda muddy (go figure). I personally think the the airport "scenery" is less distracting than the crop, but that may just be me (the other thing is that having it cropped right through those horizontal fence lines is kind of distracting to me eyes).


My biggest critique? They don't have these events here in Vancouver :P

beautiful cars, your pictures do them justice. [Y]

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That's better. I can't tell what that municiple airportit is. It's so blurred the isolation of the car in sharp focus works great!!


Wall Art I tell you. Print at least 20" with a nice matt and hang that puppy up on the game room wall!!

I agree with Oren. Great job overall tho. Just got my 70-200 f2.8 L IS yesterday. I look forward to taking some action shots like yours. Lets see how they came out.


Did you have your lens set to Mode 2?

Superb work! Crisp, clear and sharp!

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Much better, the airport is not distracting at all as it's all blurred [H]


On that specific picture, the blacks are too dark, try to bring the shadows up to reveal the lost details there.

Chuck, Thanks so much[:D] I'm going to re-crop everything to get the cars back to centered from top to bottom.


jcmeza_21, yep, Mode 2. Enjoy your new lens, it's awesome! Make sure to post your results.


Oren, I'll try to get some of that detail back in the black.


Thanks everybody!!!

Wow very nice shots! I'm also slightly jealous that you live close enough to a track that gets some real racing :D