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Roo said:It's backShots from the AGP today.
Great shots! Are you close to the pits, or do you just have a super manly long lens
?On a side note, I'm thrilled that the F1 season is back. The cars don't look nearly as ugly as they did last year, or maybe I'm just getting accustomed to the ugliness. Vettel in Ferrari red looks so bizarre. I predict that Kimi will show him up this year.
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V8Beast said:Roo said:It's back
Great shots! Are you close to the pits, or do you just have a super manly long lens
On a side note, I'm thrilled that the F1 season is back. The cars don't look nearly as ugly as they did last year, or maybe I'm just getting accustomed to the ugliness. Vettel in Ferrari red looks so bizarre. I predict that Kimi will show him up this year.
Thanks! It's a bit of both. Pit walk first thing in the morning and then we can access the top of the pits for the rest of the day. Today I took the heli flight around the track and luckily got in a 407 with a small sliding window to stick the lens out. It's hard to focus, track and frame the shot when the lens is getting buffeted from all angles.
The cars do look a bit more normal this year thanks to the rule change. Not sure about your Kimi prediction tho.
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Roo said:
I'm lovin' the helicopter shot, too! I'm not sure about my Kimi prediction, either. His lap times compared well to Vettel's in winter testing, but the Kimster's been rather erratic since his return.
At any rate, here are some shots from atop the tower in Austin. Had it existed last year, an 11-24 would have been very handy ;D Unless you're willing to stand in line for hours, the only way to get up there is to visit on a non-F1 race weekend. Nonetheless, it's quite a vantage point to say the least
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Mickat said:
It would be great to see your shots. Mercedes is the class of the field at the moment but Hamilton was certainly in a league of his own today.
V8 - I've seen that tower at Austin and wanted to climb it if I ever got there. It would be amazing with the 11-24 but here that lens costs as more than the trip there for the GP weekend!.
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I'm loving that the sparks are back with the re-introduction of the titanium skidplates. A couple more aerial shots and the last couple are from a corner I've shot at before but never this angle.
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Well I haven't done any aerial shots and most of my images are shot through fence.
Not many places where a fence doesn't interupt the image. Bit of a challenge sometimes in itself.
When I drive back to Brissy I'll post some up so I'll need a couple of days.
Not many places where a fence doesn't interupt the image. Bit of a challenge sometimes in itself.
When I drive back to Brissy I'll post some up so I'll need a couple of days.
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Thanks guys! I always enjoy the weekend but the race itself was a bit dull with the best thing being Arnie's podium interviews. F1 wasn't alone on the dull front as the V8 races were also a bit pedestrian due to them being limited to 3 sets of tyres to cover 4 races for the weekend. One of the driver's even tweeted an apology for the lack of genuine racing.
Photographywise, I had a reasonably good day Thursday and a good Saturday while Sunday is reserved for the racing with very few shots taken. Until I got into the chopper, my Friday was a shocker. None of my panning shots were coming off as I was either missing focus or my timing was out plus those fences are challenging at times. I really would have liked to have done some slow shutter from the helicopter but my early form and the buffeting put me off.
Here are a few other shots from the weekend
Photographywise, I had a reasonably good day Thursday and a good Saturday while Sunday is reserved for the racing with very few shots taken. Until I got into the chopper, my Friday was a shocker. None of my panning shots were coming off as I was either missing focus or my timing was out plus those fences are challenging at times. I really would have liked to have done some slow shutter from the helicopter but my early form and the buffeting put me off.
Here are a few other shots from the weekend
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Mickat said:Here are some of mine. I haven't quite gone thru them yet so I have more to post up.
Nice shots Mickat
Looking forward to seeing the others you post. You've reminded me I need to get around to the fast sweeper at turn 12 next year. The other corner that's good on a cool and overcast day is in the braking area on the inside of turn 13 - I remember it being a good place to get glowing disc shots.TheJock said:
;D Arnie was good value and Hamilton's "I thought you were bigger" started some good banter.
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Here are some more... still a lot more to look through!
I agree, I wasn't impressed at all with 11 cars finishing. 2 out before it started, 1 injured then 1 incident on the first corner. Wasn't much of a race really IMO. In saying that, only get to see them once a year so I'll take what I can get I suppose.
I agree, I wasn't impressed at all with 11 cars finishing. 2 out before it started, 1 injured then 1 incident on the first corner. Wasn't much of a race really IMO. In saying that, only get to see them once a year so I'll take what I can get I suppose.
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