Popped down to Castle Combe with Cliff (Pastyboy) and Beck (Beckz0308) and had a good day, albeit horribly humid and sweaty :thumbdwn:

Anyway, some pictures for you from the Combe Saloons race as that's the only one I could be bothered to photograph

A selection of EVO's from:

Brian Cox

Race winner and fastest lap time - Gary Prebble

and Barry Squibb

Kevin Bird in his high-power Leon with 'modified' exhaust system;)

Julian Ellison in his fantastic sounding S40 T4

Guy Higgs in his M3

Tony Dolley in his beautiful 206 GTi

Jason Cooper in a very clean Fiesta

and finally, one more of Prebble doing what he did a lot of that day

Cheers,

Joe

I have a load of pics that echo Joe's quite well (albeit with less panning!) but a selection as follows:

Simon Norris in his 750BHP Evo 3 with Evo 9 engine an Evo body kit - damn ricers!

Rubbin's racing

Rubbin' IS racing

rubbing or racing? There's only one way to find out.....

you don't need all wheels on the tarmac with 4 wheel drive anyways

and just look at that suspension travel?! he wants some KW1's!

See i CAN do panning shots!

Edited 26 May, 200917 yr by PastyBoy

guys - need a quick bit of advice - just bought an eos 1000d - what settings do you use on the canon to get the panning shots that blur the background but keep the car in focus?

cheers!

Turn the wheel on the top to the Tv (time value = shutter speed) setting to allow alteration of your shutter speed, whilst allowing the camera to still work out the best aperture to give good exposure.

First, set your camera to centre point focus so it only auto focuses on what is under the centre point in the viewfinder (a fast moving car hopefully!!) and Servo Focus so it keeps maintaining focus constantly when the shutter button is half pressed (see your user manual!)

Then change the shutter speed setting by turning the knurled wheel near your shutter button. Depending on light conditions, speed of vehicle, distance to vehicle and amount of motion/wheel blur required the value can be whatever you want - just experiment! To practice, perhaps set your shutter speed to somewhere around 1/250s and then take some shots of vehicles driving down the road. Then maybe try some at 1/200 or 1/160 and see how they come out.

A good technique is to pick a spot along the track (maybe with uncluttered background) where you want to try some panning shots. Stand directly facing that spot and then, keeping your feet planted, turn to for arguments sake, your right-hand side where the cars are coming from. Aim at the car you want to photograph and half-press the shutter button and keep it pressed down as you 'pan' along with the vehicle. When you are then standing facing at your original spot, press the shutter button fully whilst keeping the camera moving with the car. PRESTO, your first, perfect panning shot:D Ok, maybe not that easy and you would end up with a lot of very similar shots with no variety (see mine above ) but a good basic technique to start with anyway.

It takes A LOT of practice to get anywhere half decent at shutter speeds lower than 1/160s in my opinion. I took over 130 pictures in 14 minutes on Monday and from all of those, I was only genuinely happy with 45 or so :( I'm very out of practice too which doesn't help, but even so!!

Sorry to go on a bit:D I hope this is of some help, any more questions, just ask!

Joey offers good advice (which i'll be trying next time around) but for an easier way, do what i did for the pic of the green MG, and simply turn the wheel to the "landscape" setting rather than "sport"!

Ha ha, you cheat! And you still can't get one in focus, even at 1/250s :eek:

joenitro some cool panning shots.well done