Friday 27th September 2002

Top Photos

Green Flag dish out prizes to young motorsport photographers

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[hansgerd]

Top photos !!!

[M@H]

indeedy.. the focussing on the winner pic is superb... bet that was a Cannon Eos or similar..

Cheers
Matt.

[Bonce]

Great pics but why does the winning photo look like it's been airbrushed badly in PaintShop Pro? Some of the front tyre has been replaced by over-bright tree image from the background. Or is it green smoke?

[CarZee]

Winning Pic superb

Bonce, you unbeliever... probably more to do with the scanning/reduction process.. not all tools do as good a job as Paintsop Pro7 at shrinking already JPEGed images..

[Bonce]

Scanning/reduction my ar$e. That pic's been tampered with I tell you!
I demand to see the negatives.

[PetrolTed]

The man's got a point though. Does seem more airbrushy/cutty/pasty than a JPEG loss of quality.

[M@H]

Hmmmm.. it does seem a bit bright on the topside now you come to mention it... :hmmm:

[CarZee]

I submit that what you're seeing is the car's coolant ejecting subsequent to the front end shunt... it's exiting upwards due to centripetal reaction to the cars axis of rotation...

[anonymous-user]

i saw the crash at combe as I was at tower corner during that race. to think that the accident was over in a few seconds and this guy has produced such a good photo is incredible. fortunately the driver walked away but he created an impressive photo oppourtunity!

[raceboy]

So wheres the juniour category winner's photo then?

[PetrolTed]

quote:
So wheres the juniour category winner's photo then?

For some reason that wasn't available to us.

[Harrigan]

quote:
I submit that what you're seeing is the car's coolant ejecting subsequent to the front end shunt... it's exiting upwards due to centripetal reaction to the cars axis of rotation...

Yup, agreed, and grass from the agricultural nature of the "off"... That car's been over once already...

H

[308gt4]

quote:
I submit that what you're seeing is the car's coolant ejecting subsequent to the front end shunt... it's exiting upwards due to centripetal reaction to the cars axis of rotation...

"centripetal reaction", must mean centrifugal as centripedal is a gravitational force accounted for in inertial navigation systems, unless this guy had his Nav/Sat switched on when he really needed a tilt meter

[McNab]

Harrigan's right, and I don't think there's any liquid or steam there. It's all lawn mower clippings being ejected by rotating front wheels and/or impact/attitude. Same colour as the grass he's just ploughed through.

Funny - my mower won't do that...

[rich 36]

I was at Coombe that day and although I missed the actual crash, there were plenty of ghouls making their way to the vantage point opposite, Sicko's.. I went for a walk in the pit lane and got stared at for snaping pictures of cars, bad form apparently!

[PetrolTed]

quote:
"centripetal reaction", must mean centrifugal as centripedal is a gravitational force accounted for in inertial navigation systems, unless this guy had his Nav/Sat switched on when he really needed a tilt meter

That's not my understanding of centripetal force. Tucked away in my dim and distant Applied Maths but more here www.glenbrook.k12.il.us/gbssci/phys/mmedia/circmot/cf.html

[pdv6]

Cambridge dictionary says:

centrifugal
adjective [not gradable]
(of a turning object) tending to move away from the point around which it is turning

centripetal
adjective [not gradable]
(of a turning object) tending to move towards the point around which it is turning
centripetal force/acceleration

[incorrigible]

Centripetal force is required to maitain an orbit, ie a force toward the centre of the arc to stop stuff flying off into the distance (sometimes attributed to centrifugal force but this is a misnomer it's just the absence of centripetal force)

But I think it's coolant, and I'm not convinced it's genuine

[yertis]

That would actually be quite a difficult pic to create in Photoshop or whatever. Not difficult to manipulate, but it would be hard to find all the elements you'd need (background, smoke/debris, car) with the right lighting and pewrspective. The little details, like the shadow showing in the dust, would almost certainly get overlooked unless the comping was done by a real pro. And even a pro would probably not do that in the interests of clarity.

Having said that the grass at the front does look a bit unnatural. Probably the effect of bright light and jpeg-ing.

It's not a great photo though. It's a lucky snap.

[Mr E]

Ouch. Don't try this at home.

And I love the 3 touring cars.....