Some more classic car racing pix

I as just cleaning some of the dross out of the albums and thought I would share some more of the pix I took at the classic car races and meet at Winton, Victoria, Australia, last month (or whenever!).

I'm triggered, I suppose, by having been participating in an OVF vs EVF nonsense on the Open Forum in which is was claimed there was no way you could get a decent fast action shot with an EVF. Danny (NZ macro) laid waste of such arguments with some examples of his bird and motor racing work, but the OVFs (or should that be spelled simply OAFS) tried to ignore him! LOL.

I had various reasons for selecting the pix below -- some photographic and some just fun! They are presented in the order in which I took them.

Your standard first corner shot. No panning and whatever your VF, you just pre-focus and anticipate because your human reaction time is about quarter of a second so if you don't shoot ahead of what is happening, you get nuffin' useful. I should have shot a burst, I shot a single frame. The 45-150 was on the GX7 but I was using EX TELE to get an 8 MPX of effectively 210mm.

I showed some e-Shutter fun earlier; didn't realize it was even more marked in this photo. Brockbank would have been proud of me!

And here I held the camera upside down above my head (bloody hard to take a shot like that!) composing in the LCD, to get the e-shutter effect of he cars leaning into the direction they are going

Now this is interesting -- to me at any rate. I panned at 1/250 -- classically, that would have been regarded as too fast a shutter speed.

Later I panned the same car at 1/125th resulting in a much stronger background blurring effect. That's better -- or is it? I am proud of the fact that I got the car sharp, but I think I prefer the blur level of 1/250.

Love these old car things when you can get a Hillman Imp racing with a Chrysler Charger (it had about 4.2 liters of barely controlled hemi-headed straight 6!)

Just had to show the Ford Cortina! Lovely engine and gear box in a very ordinary chassis. The BMC cars like the Mini had it the other way about -- lovely chassis with a crummy old engine!

And then there is another Imp. Bizarre, isn't it -- we actually regarded that as a viable road-going vehicle! LOL.

Last time I showed some pictures from this meet I included a pic of a Messerschmidt 3 wheeler with two seats, one behind the other. Someone in my family circle has popped up with another picture of the same car which demonstrates my limitations as a documentary photographer. If I had moved two steps further and photographed the thing from the other side, I would have shown that it actually had ski racks attached, complete with skis -- making it even more bizarre. A lesson learned! Photograph from all angles in future, Geoffrey!

Brockbank had an excellent cartoon showing this vehicle driving past the entrance to Lovers' Lane, with both parties looking disgruntled! LOL.