Ford Racing Team w/ Ford Focus @ Malaysian Rally Championship 2004

[allanphang]

some photos....not superb but here goes...

Ford Racing Team with the Ford Focus Turbo @ the Malaysian Rally Championship 2004 - Round 1, Sepang, 6-7 March 2004.

More news on the event at : MalaysianRally.com

camera: eos300 w/ std. kit lens
film: fuji superia 200
aperture: f5.6
shutter speed: 1/125s

entry level scanner D646U Canonscan, scanned 4R photos at 200dpi, then scaled down in Adobe Photoshop to 800 (width) (auto aspect ratio so the height changes accordingly)




cropped instead of resized to prevent image blurness


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More photos by AllanPhang.com @ http://atnan.fotopic.net/


Cheers,
Allan

[r32]

While I fully understand your desire to keep your pictures yours, the watermark is intentionally placed on the subject of the car and that makes displaying the photos here pointless. A less distinct (but still visible) watermark, or one that covers a smaller area of the car, would be much more preferable.

Going by the settings you posted, it appears the intention was to get panning shots, but the shutter speed seems a bit too slow to get the desired effect of keeping the subject sharp and the background blur.

In the jungle shots, you could try fill-flash to bring out the shadowed details - too much is lost there.

The fourth and sixth shots are pretty alright. The rest...... hmmm.

But the watermarks dilute the pictures. Do something about it.

[allanphang]

Originally Posted by r32 While I fully understand your desire to keep your pictures yours, the watermark is intentionally placed on the subject of the car and that makes displaying the photos here pointless. A less distinct (but still visible) watermark, or one that covers a smaller area of the car, would be much more preferable. Going by the settings you posted, it appears the intention was to get panning shots, but the shutter speed seems a bit too slow to get the desired effect of keeping the subject sharp and the background blur. In the jungle shots, you could try fill-flash to bring out the shadowed details - too much is lost there. The fourth and sixth shots are pretty alright. The rest...... hmmm. But the watermarks dilute the pictures. Do something about it.

R32,

I share your views :-) Here's the updated photos with more presentable watermarking as showen above.

Yes some of the subjects aren't sharp enough in the panned shots!! Will increase shutter speed next round.

Fill-in flash....will try that out too and post the results of the next round.

Thanks for the tips & insights!!

Cheers,
Allan

[sehsuan]

allan, only one Ford car? no more other cars?

[allanphang]

Originally Posted by sehsuan allan, only one Ford car? no more other cars?

Sehsuan,

I'm there under the Ford Racing Team, so basically I only take pics of the Ford Focus cause that's my objective :-)

More pics of other cars with my humble A60 at : http://atnan.fotopic.net

Cheers,
Allan

[sehsuan]

oh ok! silly me