Otago Rally (NZ) photos
Discussion
Heres some of mine from the weekend:
(wish I hadn't accidentally cut the bottom of the sign off)
Full set here:http://s43.photobucket.com/albums/e39
And a couple of questions for the more experienced photographers than me...
What's a good way to avoid the over-exposure/blown highlights/whatever you call it on white cars or bright reflections? Like this, a car I've consistently found very hard to get good photos of:
And has anyone found some nice simple solution to taking taking photos in the rain without this happening:
I was having to wipe rain off the lens before every shot while it was raining, but I'm paranoid about scratching it etc.
Camera is Fuji S5500 btw, most photos have had some basic tweaking of contrast/brightness as the light was often a bit sub-optimal.
(wish I hadn't accidentally cut the bottom of the sign off)
Full set here:http://s43.photobucket.com/albums/e39
And a couple of questions for the more experienced photographers than me...
What's a good way to avoid the over-exposure/blown highlights/whatever you call it on white cars or bright reflections? Like this, a car I've consistently found very hard to get good photos of:
And has anyone found some nice simple solution to taking taking photos in the rain without this happening:
I was having to wipe rain off the lens before every shot while it was raining, but I'm paranoid about scratching it etc.
Camera is Fuji S5500 btw, most photos have had some basic tweaking of contrast/brightness as the light was often a bit sub-optimal.
shedman said:
What an amazing country NZ is!
Those pics show such a great variety of landscapes it's almost like the RAC, Manx and Corsican rallies rolled into one!
Those pics show such a great variety of landscapes it's almost like the RAC, Manx and Corsican rallies rolled into one!
Just to rub it in, all those stages are within less than an hours drive of (a)each other and (b)my flat 
Thanks for the comments guys - I think the grainyness in some of them is because I was bumping the ISO up to try and get half-decent shutter speed in low light, but being a relatively crap camera gets quite grainy. At some stage I'll upgrade to a DSLR which I'm looking forward to, but that has to wait for $$$.
re polariser/lens hood - good ideas, I may have a look at prices or if they even make them for my camera. I guess I could always just make myself a lens hood
Umbrella stuck down the jacket would be a solution for the vertical rain anyway
, just got the horizontal stuff to worry about then. Gassing Station | Photography & Video | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff