RE: Mk2 on Mull: Pic Of The Week

RE: Mk2 on Mull: Pic Of The Week

Friday 19th December 2014

Mk2 on Mull: Pic Of The Week

Kings of Mull Calum and Iain Duffy blitz the night air in their unstoppable Mk2 Escort - desktop delight!



Rallying Ford Escorts have been a huge part of British motorsport for decades now. And as proved in our chat with the Duffy brothers, the old rear-wheel drive cars are still going sideways and are still going very fast in the 21st century.

To celebrate that fact (and because who doesn't love an Escort rally image?), Pic Of The Week features the Duffys' Mk2. Credit due to snapper John from official Mully Rally photo agency LindsayPhotoSport for such a stunning image too - capturing both the magic of the car and location in such style is no mean feat. A worthy POTW!

It's a long time now until the 2015 Mull Rally but you can guarantee the Duffys will be there in their trusty old Escort. And who would want to bet against them being victorious again?

Traditional (4:3)
Computer widescreen (16:10)
TV widescreen (16:9)
Portrait (smartphone, etc)

 

Photos: LindsayPhotosport


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Theoldfm

Original Poster:

398 posts

186 months

Friday 19th December 2014
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How the heck have they taken that photo - the car must have been going backwards??!!

Krikkit

26,500 posts

180 months

Friday 19th December 2014
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Theoldfm said:
How the heck have they taken that photo - the car must have been going backwards??!!
Set up the camera to take several exposures per second at night, then use clever software to compound the images.

The one that captured the car will have had a big flash to capture the foregrgound etc, the rest were just grabbing the head/tail-light ones as it wound through the valley.

Once you sum all the images together you end up removing the bits which have moved (the car) and are left with a nice trail of light.

Great pic, nicely done mind. smile


dgmx5

151 posts

248 months

Friday 19th December 2014
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Possibly multiple exposure but more likely a 30-45 second exposure with an IR trigger beam that trips the flash as the car goes through. The only thing against a single exposure is how little movement there is in the cloud cover in the sky.

Once the car has passed through the flash, all that will be left is the light trail (hence the brake lights passing through the car). Nicely composed and well thought photograph.

Motorsport at night and light trails provides for nice opportunities.



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soad

32,825 posts

175 months

Friday 19th December 2014
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Digital witchcraft, anyone? hehe

Jay Kay 225

19 posts

171 months

Friday 19th December 2014
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It's pretty simple stuff really, just set camera to first curtain flash and a long exposure. Nothing to do with multiple pictures being taken.

Stick a camera on a tripod and set the length of the exposure to 30 seconds (or whatever is suitable) then ensure the flash fires as soon as you hit the button (i.e. first curtain, rather than second/last curtain which would be then the shutter closes). This ensures that whatever is seen when the flash fires will show up brightly, i.e. the car, then the long exposure will capture its light trails. Only problem is the light trials will then look like they are in front of the car rather than behind it, as someone said, looking like its in reverse.

Krikkit

26,500 posts

180 months

Friday 19th December 2014
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Jay Kay 225 said:
It's pretty simple stuff really, just set camera to first curtain flash and a long exposure. Nothing to do with multiple pictures being taken.

Stick a camera on a tripod and set the length of the exposure to 30 seconds (or whatever is suitable) then ensure the flash fires as soon as you hit the button (i.e. first curtain, rather than second/last curtain which would be then the shutter closes). This ensures that whatever is seen when the flash fires will show up brightly, i.e. the car, then the long exposure will capture its light trails. Only problem is the light trials will then look like they are in front of the car rather than behind it, as someone said, looking like its in reverse.
Sorry, I was thinking of doing startrails and other multi-exposure trickery on slow objects!