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Simon T
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142 months
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Slinky, good photos and a nice blog,write,up
Simon
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Chunkychucky
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38 months
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Chevron, there is enough car pron in there for you to be redeemed. BMW z4 GT3, Nissan GT-R GT3, SLS GT3, all superb... Slinky, have you any more pics of the A35s at all please chap...? Saw the back end of the Powerful Peanut.. 
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Slinky1989
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51 months
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Simon T said: Slinky, good photos and a nice blog,write,up
Simon Cheers mate  Chunkychucky said: Slinky, have you any more pics of the A35s at all please chap...? Saw the back end of the Powerful Peanut.. I have another 2 or 3 on the blog post, if you click the link, the whole lot are in a gallery at the bottom in full size if you click the thumbnails
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Chunkychucky
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Excellent thanks Slinky just what I needed! Shame I couldn't make it, I do love watching classics in the rain, always guaranteed some oppo action and indeed some spins!
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Cledus Snow
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57 months
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spyderman8
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chevronb37
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55 months
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Clio Cup at Donington on Sunday. 
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RESSE
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90 months
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chevronb37 said: Clio Cup at Donington on Sunday. Great photography!
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chevronb37
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RESSE said: chevronb37 said: Clio Cup at Donington on Sunday. Great photography! Thanks very much! I've got a few shots online of the BTCC as well if they're of interest? I realise they might not fall within the 'club racing' genre though.
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RESSE
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chevronb37 said: RESSE said: chevronb37 said: Clio Cup at Donington on Sunday. Great photography! Thanks very much! I've got a few shots online of the BTCC as well if they're of interest? I realise they might not fall within the 'club racing' genre though. Any motorsport photography is of great interest to me and I appreciate your time in posting them up. 
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chevronb37
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RESSE
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chevronb37 said: Thank you very much 
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chevronb37
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Total pleasure. Looks like it'll be Cadwell for HSCC on Saturday so I'll make sure the camera's packed.
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srob
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107 months
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Cledus Snow said: Pic's from Snetterton at teh weekend Awesome pic's mate. I was there on Saturday for a while, the V8 rumble was brilliant!! Chevron, do you use autofocus? I've always thought your pic's are really, really good. My camera's a bit old and knackered and a lot of my photo's that are scrap are because I have to use manual focus, so when panning I have to hit it exactly right, speed/position wise! I'm wondering whether it's worth me saving some pennies and trying to get a slightly better camera!!
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chevronb37
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srob said: Awesome pic's mate. I was there on Saturday for a while, the V8 rumble was brilliant!!
Chevron, do you use autofocus? I've always thought your pic's are really, really good. My camera's a bit old and knackered and a lot of my photo's that are scrap are because I have to use manual focus, so when panning I have to hit it exactly right, speed/position wise!
I'm wondering whether it's worth me saving some pennies and trying to get a slightly better camera!! I do tend to use autofocus almost all of the time, just to help react to what's going on on the track. I'm afraid I'm not a very knowledgable photographer - I use a Canon 450D with a fairly cheap 55-250mm telephoto lens. I've never done any post-processing on a photo other than cropping in MS Paint and resizing to make web hosting easier so technically hopeless for the most part! In my amateur experience the single element which makes the most difference is where you stand. Whenever I have media access my shots are better than I expect. Of course the really good guys will take awesome photos from anywhere. I don't possess that kind of talent sadly but will keep working at it. I think the autofocus will be built into the lens so may be worth thinking about new lenses rather than a new body. Again, I'm so technically inept that there will be a hundreds of guys who read this thread that are better-qualified than me to comment!
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srob
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chevronb37 said: I do tend to use autofocus almost all of the time, just to help react to what's going on on the track. I'm afraid I'm not a very knowledgable photographer - I use a Canon 450D with a fairly cheap 55-250mm telephoto lens. I've never done any post-processing on a photo other than cropping in MS Paint and resizing to make web hosting easier so technically hopeless for the most part!
In my amateur experience the single element which makes the most difference is where you stand. Whenever I have media access my shots are better than I expect. Of course the really good guys will take awesome photos from anywhere. I don't possess that kind of talent sadly but will keep working at it.
I think the autofocus will be built into the lens so may be worth thinking about new lenses rather than a new body. Again, I'm so technically inept that there will be a hundreds of guys who read this thread that are better-qualified than me to comment! Haha, thanks mate. It sounds like you're very similar in your photography as I am (no offence!). My camera body is what was, the cheapest digi' SLR you could buy at the time. A Pentax of some description, which I bought about five years ago. My lens is a Sigma 300mm zoom, and I know that it doesn't have much of an autofocus, so you may be right although I suspect it's a combination of the two! To be honest I quite enjoy doing everything manually, I often get some quite odd but entertaining photo's, evocative of the era when wheels seemed to warp! I'd quite like to find a 'safe' setting though, as my snapping is very haphazard at best, and it would be nice to be able to make sure I can get a decent, clear shot of friends when they're racing! This is the type of pic I like to take, but I end up with about 70 crap ones to find one flukey half decent one. And I've only just started trying to work out 'post processing', and this is auto-fixed as it was massively over-exposed! 
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chevronb37
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55 months
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That looks like Cadwell, heading up onto the Mountain...? I know exactly the kind of shot you mean and I aspire to the same. Just need to work out how to do it! In keeping with your VSCC theme, I snapped the below at Oulton Park a couple of years, similar vibe. I've never used a Sigma lens but my understanding is that a large part of the price and weight in the best lenses is the AF systems and how fast they can react to movement in the photo subject. If I can ever get to the stage where I am paid for words/photos then I'll put some money back into my kit but for the moment I do it purely for enjoyment so can't really justify it. Keep us updated on your decision and look forward to seeing some photos from events this season! 
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srob
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107 months
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chevronb37 said: That looks like Cadwell, heading up onto the Mountain...? I know exactly the kind of shot you mean and I aspire to the same. Just need to work out how to do it! In keeping with your VSCC theme, I snapped the below at Oulton Park a couple of years, similar vibe. I've never used a Sigma lens but my understanding is that a large part of the price and weight in the best lenses is the AF systems and how fast they can react to movement in the photo subject. If I can ever get to the stage where I am paid for words/photos then I'll put some money back into my kit but for the moment I do it purely for enjoyment so can't really justify it. Keep us updated on your decision and look forward to seeing some photos from events this season! That's a great picture! Especially as you can see the old girl firing in the smopke out of the exhaust! The best meeting I've been to for years and years was the VSCC meet at Cadwell last year (as you rightly observed!). Such a variety of machinery. They're having a VSCC meeting at Snetterton this year too, so I'll make sure I get along to both. I'll keep you posted, but I doubt I'll be able to justify anything for a while yet
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chevronb37
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srob said: That's a great picture! Especially as you can see the old girl firing in the smopke out of the exhaust! The best meeting I've been to for years and years was the VSCC meet at Cadwell last year (as you rightly observed!). Such a variety of machinery. They're having a VSCC meeting at Snetterton this year too, so I'll make sure I get along to both. I'll keep you posted, but I doubt I'll be able to justify anything for a while yet Remembering how kind you were about my old Hethel shed, you may be interested to know the car's former keeper was Mike Stripe who is the top guy at the VSCC. Small world, huh? I try to get to the odd VSCC meet when I can - just love the atmosphere and the spirit with which the cars are driven. They're treated as racing machines and driven properly, not wrapped in cotton wool and clinically observed. Problem these days is that there are so many race meetings week in week out that it's hard to know what to choose! Just to stop the thread from dispersing entirely into chat (which I'm eternally guilty of), how about the classic "if you can't pan properly, tilt the camera 30deg and hopefully nobody will notice" approach to racing photography?! Bit grainy after resizing, I'm afraid. 
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