Snetterton pics from Sat..

[Digby]

Kept them all B+W for that period feel.Was nice to see a Warwick GT, seeing as I had never seen
one before! I would also like to thank the owners for a brief chat re: the car.More info in this
link..

http://www.classicdriver.co.uk/uk/find/4100_result...

[Motown Junk]

Love the Droopsnoot!

[A911DOM]

Fantastic - real feeling of nostalgia!

Love the little Opel GT!

Good pictures!

Edited by A911DOM on Wednesday 20th October 14:13

[alolympic]

They are lovely pictures.
Do you mind me asking what camera and lense you were using. Just that I am trying to build an understanding of what equipment to go for myself, now that I am fed up with my digital compact.
Ta.

[Digby]

alolympic said:

They are lovely pictures.
Do you mind me asking what camera and lense you were using. Just that I am trying to build an understanding of what equipment to go for myself, now that I am fed up with my digital compact.
Ta.

I'm not going to be much help I'm afraid as I am a complete newbie when it comes to taking pictures.The camera is an old Olympus E-10 SLR (worth about 80 quid now).All I do is leave it on auto, point at things I like the look of, snap and do my own enhancing in paintshop if required.Any depth of field etc, is all added afterwards, as I don't ever mess about with the camera settings at all.For example, in the first picture, a guy was standing to the right of that Jaguar, so I removed him and extended the fence and cloned the trees in the distance.

Due to posting some pictures on another forum a few years back, a guy who took pictures for a living, asked me to work with him at the track and snap some pit shots etc.His idea was to sell the images at the track I believe, but I had to say the same to him and explain that despite me trying to have a 'good eye' for a snap, I'm completely lost when it comes to knowing what settings to use.The camera doesn't take a bad shot, though, but it's old now in technology and pixel terms.

Sorry if that's not what you were expecting, Sir!

[a8hex]

Having the right eye is infinitely more important to getting a good picture than having the "right" camera.
And you sir seem to have a pretty good eye. Great pictures.
If your method works for you then it works. Its the results wot count at the end of the day.

[Digby]

a8hex said:

And you sir seem to have a pretty good eye.

Cheers, but they are not arty-farty type shots, of course. I think they are shots anyone would take to be honest, I just gave them some makeup! I can do laying on the ground and zooming in on badges and lamps and all that jazz when I have to, but I am getting on a bit now, so it's harder to get up

I quite like getting shots where people are involved if I can (got lots like that in the collection) but the ones above were really just a reminder of the cool cars.On a day like that, I wil just take 50 or so pics, pick the better ones and enhance away.It's suprising how a relatively bland shot, can be made into something a little bit more special, with some cropping and tweaking of colour and brightness etc.

[Huntsman]

Nice Pantera, very topical!

[alolympic]

Cool, thanks for responding. That feedback is useful, as others have said, it is about having an eye for a shot as much as the equipment. Encouraging that a pretty old spec SLR is man for the job.

[a8hex]

I think almost any modern camera is "up for the job" with one proviso. You know when the damn shutter is going to go off. I think think is the problem with many "point and shoot" type digital cameras. It used to drive me mad on my old Cannon S60, which was otherwise a great camera. Cannon concentrating on the important bit, the lens, rather than how many pixels.
I've now got a Nikon D300, which is great, it is all but instant in its responses, But I still have to point it in the right direction and at something that will make an interesting picture.
The only occasion when all those pixels were useful was when I wanted to display just the bonnet badge on a car that was shooting past.

[RedexR]

A Peerless GT from 1960s Slough , I have a real soft spot for these rare little 2 seaters. Excellent pictures , well done Sir !

Edited by RedexR on Thursday 21st October 21:29