Scottish Elises

So on the Saturday I used our 400D with the regular 18-55mm lens. Thought I got some pretty good shots although on my panning ones just a tiny bit is out of focus. I just need a longer lens and stand further away. Here are the shots from Saturday. I also used a polariser filter all day to help with the brightness of the frog! Worked pretty well I think!









On the Sunday I borrowed Mikes 4 thirds Panasonic G1 as I'm thinking of buying a G3. A cracking little camera, he has a zoom lens with it too. The frog's colour causes havoc with this cameras lens too, so the colour isn't great, but I thought the images were pretty sharp:










The next two were taken by fluke. I was sitting in the mini trying to heat back up, and playing with the different settings on the camera. I went to take a picture of the car through the glass and as I pressed the shutter it refocused on the raindrops on the window. If you look closely you can see the frog upside down in every single droplet! I thought that was quite cool!




More from the sprint:













Thanks for looking!

Jen

Those water pics came out really well.

Great pics Jen,.. especially the Toxic Frog, although I guess it would be easier to shoot as it would be one of the slower cars

P.S. the 7th and 21st shots (Alan in motion) are great

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Thanks guys! Just have to add, these havent been adeited at all, so hopefully should look much better when I'v time to sit down and play with them.

Well done Jen, I particularly like the panning shot of the Midget, very close to perfect, colours good and nice composition. I also like the 4th one below the raindrops of the frog.

I am assuming both cameras were shooting JPEG rather than raw? Bear in mind that there will be differing levels of in camera sharpening. I also think that you will notice a massive improvement in sharpness when you ditch the 18-55. Anyway looks good and hope you both enjoyed the weekend.

Thanks!

The Canon is jpeg and the G1 gave me raw and jpeg files......

I liked having the polarising filter on the canon. It seemed to separate the colours better, if that makes sense?!

jen wrote:Thanks!

The Canon is jpeg and the G1 gave me raw and jpeg files......

I liked having the polarising filter on the canon. It seemed to separate the colours better, if that makes sense?!

It will do that, is it a linear or a circular polarising filter? Did you notice the strength of the effect varying depending on your angle between the subject and the sun etc?

I didnt realise it is a circular one until Graeme showed me on Sat night when I was showing him the pics! It was my first time using the filter so didnt really know what I was doing with it to be honest! I'm going to take it out during the holidays and experiment.

Ha ha it took me a wee while to realise you need to tune the filter and it only works well at 90degrees to the sun or reflected light

Great pics Jen, I especially like the photo with my car and the umbrella, that was a very wet day!

Hey Blair! glad you like it! If you want a copy of them, fire me a PM with your email and I'll send them on!

Cheers!

Jen

SLR0091 wrote:Great pics Jen, I especially like the photo with my car and the umbrella, that was a very wet day!

Hi Blair, nice meeting you at the sprint and seeing another Superlight R

That's the 3rd on here, Mass has the other.

Keep your eye on the track days section and i'll maybe see you at knockhill ?

Cheers
Alan