American Le Mans @ Laguna Seca

'Ozy' · Sep 22, 2002

I was at Laguna Seca today shooting both the Mazda Extreme Street car show and the Le Mans race. The D60 performed perfectly with AI Servo. I love this camera. I used my 2xTC on my 70-200 quite a bit and am very happy with the sharpness. We are still processing all the show pics, and they will be up Tuesday, but for now I processed a few of my favorites. Enjoy!!

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Ozy
http://www.carandmodel.com

D60, BG-ED3, Canon 70-200L f2.8 IS, 28-135 IS, & 50 f1.4, Sigma 24-70 f2.8, 17-35 f2.8-4, 550EX

FKS · Sep 23, 2002

great shots! were you shooting from the track side or spectator side of the fence?
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rajd1 · Sep 23, 2002

'Ozy' said:
I was at Laguna Seca today shooting both the Mazda Extreme Street
car show and the Le Mans race. The D60 performed perfectly with AI
Servo. I love this camera. I used my 2xTC on my 70-200 quite a
bit and am very happy with the sharpness. We are still processing
all the show pics, and they will be up Tuesday, but for now I
processed a few of my favorites. Enjoy!!

Thanks Ozy

You captured the feel of the place (and the cars!) wonderfully.....

regards - Rob

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D60, BG ED3, 70-200L IS, 28-70L, 1.4xEFII, 550EX, PowerBook G4,
iPhoto Photoshop 7 and 3 cats

'Ozy' · Sep 23, 2002

I was registered as media. Then we signed in to get our photo flags, so we could go anywhere trackside and also in the pits.

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Ozy
http://www.carandmodel.com

D60, BG-ED3, Canon 70-200L f2.8 IS, 28-135 IS, & 50 f1.4, Sigma 24-70 f2.8, 17-35 f2.8-4, 550EX

Rick P · Sep 24, 2002

b@st@rd! I think I saw you camped out at turn 4 with your media arm band. I so wish I had media access. I was out there with my D30/70-200 IS and it was difficult panning with the top the fence in the way

great pics btw.

Rick

Dean O · Sep 24, 2002

What constitutes as media? I'd love to be able to get behind the scenes at races, and if it's only a fanzine away...

'Ozy' said:
I was registered as media. Then we signed in to get our photo
flags, so we could go anywhere trackside and also in the pits.

Lisa Horton · Sep 24, 2002

Looks like there were a number of us there that day

I got some good results (from the spectator side of the fences!) with the D30 and Canon 300/4L combined with a 1.5x TC. And I discovered a great spot to photograph turn 11 (last turn before main straight) without intervening fenes, yahoo!

http://www.lisahorton.net/new

Here's one of the best from turn 11:
http://gatorgames.com/lisa/new/pages/4319.htm

Comments are invited!

Lisa

Lisa Horton · Sep 24, 2002

Still learning how to post pictures here

http://gatorgames.com/lisa/new/pages/4319.htm

Rick P · Sep 24, 2002

Lisa Horton said:
Looks like there were a number of us there that day

Yeah, among the pros there were quite a few non-pros sporting white L lenses. Here's one of my sharper panning shots:

Rick

Chad Smavatkul · Sep 24, 2002

I think a lot of us were at the race that day. Saw a lot of people using white L lens around me. I spent most of the time under the shade by the fence at the Cork Screw.

All the pictures were shot with Canon D60 w/ 70-200 f/2.8L IS, 300 f/4 L IS, 1.4X Teleconverter. Most action shots were using AI Servo, which perform better than what I expected.
Pictures were shot using High JPEG. Untouched except resizing, save at 90%.

We should get together some of these days. My next event will be Fleet Week in SF on Oct 12 and/or 13. If anyone interested in getting together, please e-mail me. I will be on top of the parking structure by Pier 39.

http://www.streetwize.com/gallery/LagunaSeca/index.html

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Chad Smavatkul
http://www.streetwize.com
D60•17-35 2.8L•28-70 2.8L•70-200 2.8L IS•300 4L IS•50 1.8•28-135 IS

Lisa Horton · Sep 24, 2002

Chad Smavatkul said:
We should get together some of these days. My next event will be
Fleet Week in SF on Oct 12 and/or 13. If anyone interested in
getting together, please e-mail me. I will be on top of the parking
structure by Pier 39.

There's another sports car race at Laguna Seca on Oct 6, they were selling 2 for 1 tickets on Sunday. A good deal, only $35 for general and paddock admission. I'll be there.

Might be fun to set up a time & place for all the DPReview folks to meet up, maybe at the dining tent?

I'll be at Fleet Week too

Have you photographed from the parking structure before? I've yet to stake out shooting locations.

Lisa

'Ozy' · Sep 24, 2002

Tha'd be a ton of fun! Streetwize eh? I used to buy stuff from there a few years ago. Hope business is going well. Do you like your spot for fleet week. I've never gone, but i'd love to go and if you know of some good spots, i'd be all for that! Lets try to put something together!

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Ozy
http://www.carandmodel.com

D60, BG-ED3, Canon 70-200L f2.8 IS, 28-135 IS, & 50 f1.4, Sigma 24-70 f2.8, 17-35 f2.8-4, 550EX

Dan Brown · Sep 24, 2002

I am curious when you are shooting with the D60 do you prefocus on a point to get the image when it hits the spot, or does the autofocus act quick enough to get a lock as you are panning?

'Ozy' said:
Tha'd be a ton of fun! Streetwize eh? I used to buy stuff from
there a few years ago. Hope business is going well. Do you like
your spot for fleet week. I've never gone, but i'd love to go and
if you know of some good spots, i'd be all for that! Lets try to
put something together!

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Ozy
http://www.carandmodel.com
D60, BG-ED3, Canon 70-200L f2.8 IS, 28-135 IS, & 50 f1.4, Sigma
24-70 f2.8, 17-35 f2.8-4, 550EX

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Dan Brown
http://www.pbase.com/wheatenman

'If nothing changes, nothing changes'

Rick P · Sep 24, 2002

Dan Brown said:
I am curious when you are shooting with the D60 do you prefocus on
a point to get the image when it hits the spot, or does the
autofocus act quick enough to get a lock as you are panning?

Here's a good article I read before going to Laguna Seca.

http://www.fredmiranda.com/A8_James/article.htm

I tried both auto focus AI Servo mode and MF and manual focus does seem to be a little better than AI Servo, as mentioned in the article. I have a lot of respect now for good pan shots, because from my experience this weekend it was hard to get a well focused image. Thank God for digital!

Rick

Randy Sluder · Sep 24, 2002

Chad:

Your image (IMG_4518) features a gentleman in the right of your frame wearing a floppy hat and holding a Canon SLR. If I'm not mistaken (and I very well could be), that's motorsports photographer John Brooks from the Surrey, UK.

An excellent shooter and one (who's motorsport images) I have followed for years. He covers the major sportscar races, LeMans, Sebring, PLM, Spa 24, Daytona 24 plus the ALMS and FIA SCC Championships and occaisonally the FIA GT. If one was to emulate a racing photographer, he's the one!

John's images always seems to capture the speed and excitement of motorsports without looking static or frozen in time and space. I hope to have a chat with him at Road Atlanta in a few weeks.

Randy Sluder
"Shoot more, shoot more often."

http://www.pbase.com/randy_sluder
http://www.sluderdesignstudio.com

Chad Smavatkul · Sep 24, 2002

Ozy,

We must have met somewhere before. I know for sure at the De Anza car show on August, we captured a lot of pictures at almost the same angle.

If possible, I'd like to meet up with you and DPR members on Fleet Week. I shot some pictures there couple years ago from that location and really like it. You have to be there early to get the good spot. There are a lot of people BBQing and blocking the view.

I might go there the night before, park the car in one of the corner to reserve the spot.
I'll start another thread about location and time for meeting.
Cheers,
Chad

BTW, really good work on your website. I'm one of your website member !

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Chad Smavatkul
http://www.streetwize.com
D60•17-35 2.8L•28-70 2.8L•70-200 2.8L IS•300 4L IS•50 1.8•28-135 IS

Chad Smavatkul · Sep 24, 2002

Lisa,

I have shot from the parking structure couple years ago. There were a lot of people and I didn't really get a good location. You have to be there really early to reserve some spot.

I was using film back then and didn't have any picture scanned so I can't post any sample here.
Chad

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Chad Smavatkul
http://www.streetwize.com
D60•17-35 2.8L•28-70 2.8L•70-200 2.8L IS•300 4L IS•50 1.8•28-135 IS

TypeRdude · Sep 25, 2002

Chad Smavatkul said:
Ozy,
We must have met somewhere before. I know for sure at the De Anza
car show on August, we captured a lot of pictures at almost the
same angle.

That would have been Norm or Henry.
There are several of us involved with that site. Glad you like it

funkadelic · Sep 25, 2002

Chad Smavatkul said:
Ozy,
We must have met somewhere before. I know for sure at the De Anza
car show on August, we captured a lot of pictures at almost the
same angle.

that probably was me, since Ozy was covering another event for CarAndModel

-norm
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D30, 28-135 IS, 550EX
http://www.CarAndModel.com/

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