Thanks to Maxicooper and pl4ypl4y for keeping us entertained. And great shots! Seeing your and pl4ypl4y's cameras makes me desperately want to upgrade my old camera. Didn't get any good shots today...the cold froze my batteries the my camera would start up.

 

Great to see you and bev as well.

I wish I could stay longer. I was just started getting warm up.

I didn't know that you brought your camera, cause I might have some spare batteries.

 

nice shots guys. I'll be there at 8am for tech inspection tomorrow...doing a caravan from Leesburg up for the Loudoun folks from NABISCO

 

Nice Photos Maxi and DaCrema...Here are some of mine and my friend Nikki's....we are total amateurs as you can see....but we had a blast despite the freezing cold temperatures Maxi...youre gonna have to give me some tips on how to focus so well! And DaCrema...how do you get the background in motion? Moving your camera along with the car?

Anyway, veery nice meeting Mr.MellowYellow and wife We'll have to do a newbie run together soon

 

I'm kicking myself for sleeping in this morning. I wish I was there...even if only to watch. Looks like it was a good event!

 

Nice pictures.

The tips is ......... , hmm, I will tell you when we go out shooting next time.
Using focus tracking feature on your camera or pre-focus at the spot where you want to take the picture.


I think it's only 5 minutes from your place.

 

What time does it start tomorrow?

 

You mean its not the 10 meeellion $$$ lense that you have LOL

 

BTW....what are the dimensions of your photos? I like it better than mine...which are set at 4x6 proportions...

 

Thanks for the kind words. I take the shot gun approch. I shoot a bunch, keep a few and throw away a lot...
I am far from a pro so take what I say with a grain or twelve of salt. I shoot with lowish ISO speeds, higher f stops, and slow speeds. I use a tamron 70-300 zoom (not cheep but far from top quality glass).

Generally I start the day with the camera, a Nikon D70 or 70s, in P or auto with ISO set to 200 - 400. I take some shots of people and car pics in grid to find a base setting. It also helps me get into a shooting mode. (I know it sounds hokie but that is true. If I do not take time to shoot a few shots in the grid the early shots at the autocross are all bad.) Then I slow the camera's shutter using one of the three settings at a time until I am missing more shots than I hit. The idea is not to different from landscape pictures only in this case you move the camera with the car so the background blurs.

No big secret, just a lot of luck getting a few good shots. I could never make a living with my pictures given the amount of throw away.
John

 

Actually, it is the same proportion, roughly 4" x 6". My images above were resized from original to 7" x 10.56" @ 72 dpi for web usage.

 

I think the tech inspection will be at 8.30am the run will start at a little bit after 9am.

I don't know if I'm going to make it tomorrow or not.

If you go,.... have fun, take lots of pictures and share with us.

 

Thanks! I will def try that out sometime

Maxi...why do you save at 72dpi? is because you don't need more than that for web posting?

 

At 72 ppi (I called it wrong, it should be ppi,not dpi), you still get good quality of the pictures,the pictures will display on the screen at 100% of the size you've cropped it to, and the file sizes that are not too big which it will not slow down your work flow.
Good for sample images/web display, not as proof images and not for quality print.

Note: I found the optimum size now a day is @ 96 dpi, but I don't find any diffirent from the quality, except the image will look slightly smaller on the screen, @72ppi.

You can also crop at any size that you want @ 72 ppi. It will display on the screen accordingly.
Hope this help.

Btw, I found this information very useful.
http://photo.net/learn/resize/

 

This is great information about photography guys! Thanks for sharing.

Btw, did either of you lose a case for your BlackBerry? After you all left we spotted a black case on the ground where you guys set up to take some photos. Let us know, we have it with us.

Oh, pl4ypl4y, Bev and I keep thinking that we should host a run for newbies. Something small and just a casual ride through the country. I wonder how many of us are out there.

 

Nope, I still have my Blackberry case...Maybe Maxi?

I would be up for a newbie run First order of business would be to get a 2-way radio....I still don't have one lol...

 

no NAM people today but me? Hypnohealer showed up for a bit.

 

I'm so sorry, I couldn't make it today.

 

it was much nicer weather for sure and you missed the oversteering MINI!!!!

 

With pleasure, I enjoy chatting about photography though.

Btw, the Blackberry case is happened to be mine.
Thank you so much, I will see you on Sat at the Breakfast.

Also, great idea for a run. A short casual run is fun indeed.
Try heading north of Germantown to Sugarloaf Mountain. Some of the local roads are fun to drive and very beautiful scenery as well.

 

I agree, this afternoon was much nicer. I wish I could make it.

We might be able to try some motion shot at night on Tuesday after Coffee & MINI.

I'm thinking about some location near Reston towncenter area.

We need 2 MINIs, 2 Drivers and a photographer.

 

take Sunrise across Centerville Rd....take it all the way around....ends up at Frying Pan Rd, which connects Rt28 to Centerville. Big loop without much traffic normally, but keep in mind it will be dark and rush hour

 

Actually, I looking for a scene with lots of colorful street lights. Reston towncenter at night seems to fit well and not far from the Tuesday coffee meet location.
A shiny cleaned MINI in red, white, yellow or bright blue would be perfect. My Royal Gray doesn't pop up at night.

 

ahhh, ok. The new Lansdowne Towne Center looks like King St in Old Town at the moment. A bit further out though

 

ill be out freezing my shutter finger off at VIR this weekend... oy its going to be cold...