Autosport/Pistonheads Performance car show pics

[Robster60]

Uygar said:

Great photos And I can see that you suffered by the red carpet.

I had huge trouble with white balance. My first days photos look like, I took them on Mars

Hopefully will upload the best of mine this evening.

First time at the show, and I have to say the lighting was pretty se for getting decent photos unless you had some proper flash kit. Is it always that bad?

BTW - Did anyone attend the Coys auction on Saturday? Wondered what "Eleanor" went for; doesn't appear on the Coys site yet.

[CivicMan]

Roo said:

Correct. It was damaged on its way back from America.

Thanks for that info - disappointed not to see it. Thought the F1 display was dreadful with the cafe as the background. Didn't even take one photo of it......

[A9XXC]

Lighting is always like that!

The red carpet around the Porsche Club stand was horrwndous - except for this pic -


There are 3 alternatives 1 Big flash! 2 No flash and a tripod - can get away with monopod 3 hope for a very bright day and that enough good light comes in!

You can get some very strange lighting on some stands at the NEC - this was at the NEC Classic and Sportscar show a few years ago. Impossible!

[fatboy18]

That red carpet is horrid Same last year

[Roo]

CivicMan said:

Roo said:

Correct. It was damaged on its way back from America.

Thanks for that info - disappointed not to see it. Thought the F1 display was dreadful with the cafe as the background. Didn't even take one photo of it......

Here you go.

[A9XXC]

And another

[chrisc212]

Hiya heres some of my photos and a link to the rest of um








http://sporttog.zenfolio.com/p274307594

Enjoy

[Uygar]

Robster60 said:

Hopefully will upload the best of mine this evening.

First time at the show, and I have to say the lighting was pretty se for getting decent photos unless you had some proper flash kit. Is it always that bad?

BTW - Did anyone attend the Coys auction on Saturday? Wondered what "Eleanor" went for; doesn't appear on the Coys site yet.

They used three different type of light; fluorescent, tungsten and spots. So the camera gets crazy while measuring the light. I changed my settings to measure on the centre and calculate overall environment. Also playing with white balance all the time, and setting white balance with a gray card :/

Proper flash will solve the problem but that's a huge investment.

Regarding to auction, they were charging for £10 even for press. So I didn't attend. Actually, there wasn't enough space to take photo of each car.

[Robster60]

Uygar said:

They used three different type of light; fluorescent, tungsten and spots. So the camera gets crazy while measuring the light. I changed my settings to measure on the centre and calculate overall environment. Also playing with white balance all the time, and setting white balance with a gray card :/

Proper flash will solve the problem but that's a huge investment.

Regarding to auction, they were charging for £10 even for press. So I didn't attend. Actually, there wasn't enough space to take photo of each car.

They were letting people in to the auction on Sunday or a knock-down price of a fiver. Some of the cars and the chairs had gone so there was a little more room for photos...which I will get around to posting soon...

Eleanor fetched £85K (c.£95K including fees) but several cars didn't reach their reserve including Colin McCrae's Focus WRC.

Star of the show IMHO:

[ukwheelsevents]

For a few video walk throughs of the show including the Pistonhead display see
http://www.ukwheelsevents.com/

[Uygar]

Robster60 said:

They were letting people in to the auction on Sunday or a knock-down price of a fiver. Some of the cars and the chairs had gone so there was a little more room for photos...which I will get around to posting soon...

Eleanor fetched £85K (c.£95K including fees) but several cars didn't reach their reserve including Colin McCrae's Focus WRC.

Star of the show IMHO:

I didn't know that :/

[zinar7]

All of mine from the trade day on Thursday are uploaded to here: http://sinisterresistance.wordpress.com/2012/01/17...


Here's a few of them, though:
http://sinisterresistance.files.wordpress.com/2012...

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Again, there are a bunch more I've got up on http://sinisterresistance.wordpress.com/2012/01/17... so give 'em a look.

[Arbs]

Just got round to sorting my pictures from the show, thought I would share some with you all-





















The rest can be seen here
http://www.flickr.com/photos/xxiii-photos

Edited by Arbs on Wednesday 25th January 11:47

[Robster60]

Finally got around to uploading a few pics from Birmingham



The rest can be viewed here

[themadwelshman]

Large selection of pics from the Autosport/Pistonheads show 2012:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_madwelshman/sets/...

[fatboy18]

Kin hell!!!!! Oh well, better late than never I guess

and I thought my computer was slow