RAF Marham Charity Track Day 24th & 25th April 2010

[B'stard Child]

[quote=browny,s blower]hi ian did you get my message re changing my surport vehicle is it possible !!!
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Not a problem

[browny,s blower]

many thanks ian

[HairyChineseKid]

Hi,

Dpes anyone have the URL for the guy taking the photos out the back of the car at Marham today, forgot to get the URL

[Wicker Man]

HairyChineseKid said:

Does anyone have the URL for the guy taking the photos out the back of the car at Marham today, forgot to get the URL

Here you go:

http://www.photoboxgallery.com/trackday

[mrB10]

crikey what a difference in weather to yesterday! Rain here and lovely sun yesterday!

[GeorgeyDee]

ye... A bit of a weird day with the weather. Sunny bits then rain then sun. Made it interesting

[SnapperLad]

Hi, posted this on another topic but...

I'm currently sorting through the 1000+ photos over the two days so please be patient. We've got some right crackin' shots... especially when I was hanging out the back of the safety car!

Give me until Wednesday eve at the latest and they'll be on the URL above. Another thing, we aren't RAF Photographers and all procedes from the pics go to RAF Charities so please buy loads!!!

Cheers and hope you all had a great weekend - I did!

[B'stard Child]

SnapperLad said:

Hi, posted this on another topic but...

I'm currently sorting through the 1000+ photos over the two days so please be patient. We've got some right crackin' shots... especially when I was hanging out the back of the safety car!

Give me until Wednesday eve at the latest and they'll be on the URL above. Another thing, we aren't RAF Photographers and all procedes from the pics go to RAF Charities so please buy loads!!!

Cheers and hope you all had a great weekend - I did!

Excellent - saved me the job of emailing you about it so I could pass the message on to all the forums

So a few direct questions

1. Are you putting up the best of the best or them all "warts and all" style?

2. Are you going to separate the photos into Sat / Sun to make life easy for the attendees to search for relevant photos

3. Are there going to be options to buy just prints or the original files on a CD rom?

4. Is there a pricing policy already agreed (discounts for multiples or straight price per print or file) - if so give us a clue

[SnapperLad]

1. Are you putting up the best of the best or them all "warts and all" style?

Since they were taken at 12 different locations around the track we were looking at puttting up 2 or 3 of each car in each location to get a good cross section. They are heavily cut down as the web site couldn't handle 1300 photos in in gallery!!! I'm probably looking at trying to get the gallery down to about 200 and try to cover a few shots of every car.

2. Are you going to separate the photos into Sat / Sun to make life easy for the attendees to search for relevant photos

We can if you want. If that's what everyone wants?

3. Are there going to be options to buy just prints or the original files on a CD rom?

At the moment it's just prints.. we want to get as much together as possible for 'charidy'. In a few weeks we'll probably put the digital files up.

4. Is there a pricing policy already agreed (discounts for multiples or straight price per print or file)?

There is a pricing policy agreed as follows - prices are kept low as possible:

6"x4" - 75p
7.5"x5" - £1.50
9"x6" - £2.99
12"x8" - £4.99

Then add £1.50 postage and packaging. You order directly from the Photobox website, they print and post to you. All policies are agreed with Photobox and there is a straight price per print.

Any more questions please post them.

[B'stard Child]

SnapperLad said:

B'stardchild said:

1. Are you putting up the best of the best or them all "warts and all" style?

Since they were taken at 12 different locations around the track we were looking at puttting up 2 or 3 of each car in each location to get a good cross section. They are heavily cut down as the web site couldn't handle 1300 photos in in gallery!!! I'm probably looking at trying to get the gallery down to about 200 and try to cover a few shots of every car.

Sounds a great plan

SnapperLad said:

B'stardchild said:

2. Are you going to separate the photos into Sat / Sun to make life easy for the attendees to search for relevant photos

We can if you want. If that's what everyone wants?

I think it would help attendees find pictures they want to buy from the day they were there rather than churning thro 2 days of pics

The number of people who do both days isn't as many as those who do single days - and they can look thro both days pics if they want

SnapperLad said:

B'stardchild said:

3. Are there going to be options to buy just prints or the original files on a CD rom?

At the moment it's just prints.. we want to get as much together as possible for 'charidy'. In a few weeks we'll probably put the digital files up.

OK - I'll admit I'm not a "prints person" but for charity I'll take a couple - I prefer digital images so I can add them as desktops or screensavers so I'm more interested in digital files

SnapperLad said:

B'stardchild said:

4. Is there a pricing policy already agreed (discounts for multiples or straight price per print or file)?

There is a pricing policy agreed as follows - prices are kept low as possible:

6"x4" - 75p
7.5"x5" - £1.50
9"x6" - £2.99
12"x8" - £4.99

Then add £1.50 postage and packaging. You order directly from the Photobox website, they print and post to you. All policies are agreed with Photobox and there is a straight price per print.

OK so how does the charity contribution work when dealing with photobox?

SnapperLad said:

Any more questions please post them.

I have - thanks for your fast response - appreciated - and save you getting bombarded by loads of questions from multiple attendees

Edited cos I had to manually create the quotes

Edited by B'stard Child on Monday 26th April 20:20

[SnapperLad]

Cool, will do Day 1 and Day 2 separately then. For the digital version personally I'd buy the big on (12"x8" or 9"x6") then scan it in using your home computer - everyone else does.

Simply put, Photobox take their print costs +10% from each print sale and then the rest of the money goes to Charity (the photogs make nowt and you don't pay any extra)

Thank for that!

[SnapperLad]

www.photoboxgallery.com/trackday

Hi. One set of images was uploaded last night from Brian Sadler the guy who covered both days. My images for Sunday are in the process of uploading (Lee Skillern) and should be on by late this afternoon - check them out as they have the feeling of real speed to them.

Kenny, the other photog who did Saturday's will be on this evening at about 8pm.

Lee

[2woody]

I had a keen photographer with me on the Saturday, I'm sure he'd be willing to donate his photos to the same site on the basis that the charity gets the money.

who do I need to ask ?

[SnapperLad]

Me... cool, just get him to e-mail me - if you PM me I'll give you my e-mail address.

Thanks

[giger]

Looks like you all had a great weekend, this is the first one i've missed in a few years due to sale of car and I remember how much fun this event was.

Glad it went well, i'm sure i'll be back at some point in the future

[Kneesparks]

SnapperLad said:

www.photoboxgallery.com/trackday

Hi. One set of images was uploaded last night from Brian Sadler the guy who covered both days. My images for Sunday are in the process of uploading (Lee Skillern) and should be on by late this afternoon - check them out as they have the feeling of real speed to them.

Kenny, the other photog who did Saturday's will be on this evening at about 8pm.

Lee

Hi Lee,
Iv been on the web site and only found 2 pics of my White R33 Nissan Skyline, I was sliding alot due to bald tyres and did notice someone taking pics while I was sliding but im unable to find any, can you help?

[SnapperLad]

Sorry it tooks so long to get back to you... will ask Brian - he might. Will see him again on Tuesday so will let you know. Was that your film on YouTube?

BTW CAN WE EXPRESS A REALLY BIG THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO HAS PURCHASED PRINTS SO FAR... THE RUNNING TOTAL IS £90.67! Keep going, our current goal is about £150!!!

Edited by SnapperLad on Saturday 1st May 00:14

[Stella Artois]

giger said:

Looks like you all had a great weekend, this is the first one i've missed in a few years due to sale of car and I remember how much fun this event was.

Glad it went well, i'm sure i'll be back at some point in the future

LTNS Ian, what made you get rid of the FD2?.

[giger]

Hey Marc, it's been a while!

I had 2 great years in the FD2 and took it to Marham 2 or 3 times and enjoyed it immensely. Some of the guys here may have seen it, & I was lucky enough to go out on a closed track to take one of the organisers for a blast in it!

Sending you a PM...

[jonty43]

Is there going to be another one scheduled later in the year?

J