Holiday snaps

[SmartWombat]

Barcelona ... guess where !

[Overbeyond]

More than just snapshots IMO and I think No 3 is a cracker.
Tom

[readingr]

Paul,

Excellent photos - The only one I'm not really fond of is no. 2. I think it would have been better if the overall was in focus. IMO.

The top one is interesting as his eyes seem to be concentrating on something and is that your reflection in the centre of his gogles? Perhaps a bit more DOF would have made it better.

Next is already covered

Third - is probably the better of the posts I really like the fact the chap is cat napping amongst fuel cans - Saftey concious?

The last - shame the 12 is not more central in the barrier and the chaps face is a little washed out.

The winner for me No. 3

[jar_e]

I agree, lovely shots but my favourite is number three. Good shooting all around, and as stated above, if the guy was a little more in focus on picture number two that would've been good too.

Good shot,

Jared

[SmartWombat]

Thanks Jared.

I was aiming for the mountain in #2, with the pit lane hubbub around it.
I think perhaps it could have used a bit more mountain?
Handheld, I couldn't stop down enough to get hyperfocal from him to infinity !

[SmartWombat]

Glad you like them, Roger. I was looking for something else to photograph - not just cars.

Once I stopped pinching myself !
We bumped into friends, totally unexpectedly, at the test - and were offered the loan of their pit lane passes to go and take some photographs. You don't meet friends like that often, and so one of my dreams has come true.
Not like last year a guest of the Jordan fan club, in their garage only. But free rein in the pit lane - same as with a media pass.
I haven't come down yet


So to the Ferrari mechanic. I was rather limited being on the roof of the garages for that one.
No way to go lower to get the #12 in the middle because of the safety barrier on the roof edge.
Do you think it would it be better with the number cropped out then? I've already cropped out the guy who stuffs the numbers into the pit board.
I have several others, all with a pair of red legs spouting from behind his stomach

Not sure about his face, on my monitor and according to PS it's not over exposed. The only portion at 254,255,255 is the sun reflecting off his brow. The white gloves are definitely over exposed, but this is one I shot in JPG not RAW mode so I don't have the latitude.
I was set up for a pit stop in jpeg mode to get 33 frames in burst mode.

[SmartWombat]

Thank you!

It was rather a tongue-in-cheek title, as not everyone spends 4 days at an F1 test for a holoday
Temperatures below zero overnight, like in Valencia. We both came home with colds.

I was just keeping my eyes open for pit lane action, or inaction in some cases

[jar_e]

Thanks Jared.

I was aiming for the mountain in #2, with the pit lane hubbub around it.
I think perhaps it could have used a bit more mountain?
Handheld, I couldn't stop down enough to get hyperfocal from him to infinity !

A little more mountain and the blurry subject a little less and a great shot!

Jared

[SmartWombat]

Ah, that would have meant moving from my hard-won spot for the refuelling.
Or adding the 2x converter on the 70-200 and missing hthte pit stop.
I'm going to have to buy a second body !

I discovered next day that in refuelling they close the pit lane to all but FIA photographers.
But they don't round up all the non-FIA photographers and shoo them out !