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This is one of my very favorites. Fantastic shot.

I like it. Nice and sharp and good, clean background. I like the way the guard rail color nearly matches the car's.

I know I wouldn't give my business to an establishment that doesn't permit nude wandering.

I like it, too. Particularly nice with the second car in the background. I'd love to shoot Goodwood. Looks like great fun with all sorts of wonderful cars and people.

I agree about the film (Provia is great stuff for this), but really very nice work!

I think the background works fine.

Really nice! It certainly gives a good idea of how bad the conditions were. And Bruno's creative interpretation of "single-file". I like it.

I don't quite get the idea behind VR lenses. Why not just use a faster lens to begin with? Is a VR lens substantially lighter or less expensive than a faster lens?

A VR (or IS) lens allows you to hand-hold at a slower shutter speed than you'd otherwise be able without unacceptable camera-shake.It's true that a faster lens would let you shoot a a higher shutter speed, but sooner or later you'll still reach a point where the lens is wide-open and then you need to shoot at a lower speed. Also, running around with an 80-400 f/2-f/2.8 would not be something I'd like to attempt. And, sometimes, as in this very POW-worthy example, you want to shoot at a low enough speed to get some motion blur but hand-holding at that speed would be difficult. You also might not want the shallower DOF that a wider aperture would cause.

Very imaginative. I don't think I've ever seen that perspective, either. In Bill Bryson's book In a Sunburned Country he describes how massive the bridge looks, and you've captured that very well.

A great job of capturing the activities of the crew. I like the light. The Bentley is such a beautiful car. Too bad that white thing is in the lower right corner, but other than that it's a very good shot.

I think I'd prefer it with a bit less sky, too, but it's a beautiful image.

Strikes me as a rather ordinary snapshot. I don't get it. What's that thing he's holding?

Good pan shot. I like the composition, with the specatators at the top and some room in front of the Ferrari.

Very nice! You captured the moment. Gotta love the Corkscrew! :)

That is very nice. I like the visibility of Gronholm's face and the very clean (well, if dirt can be clean...) background. I wish there was some detail in the left side of the car rather than dead black, but otherwise a fine shot.

Very nice work, especially considering the difficult color (black). A more interesting sky would have helped (and I'm wondering about that dark spot in the upper left-hand corner), but I like it very much.

It's Ralf! The trick is to pre-focus on the spot where you know the car's going to be, pan with the car, smoothly squeeze off the shot at the proper moment, and follow-through. And it takes lots of practice. Nicely composed except for the background (the Orange ads are rather distracting), and more background blur (by using a slower shutter speed) would be nice, as would more sharpness. But a decent effort. Journalistic and artistic aren't mutually-exclusive. See Darren Heath's work, for example.

Really nice. I like the framing at the top, from the Shell ad on the grass, the clean background, and the wheel and background blur. Ideally, maybe a bit more to the right would be nice (for less space behind the car and more in front), but nice work. (I do wish I could see it in a size somewhere between "small" and "medium", though)

Pushing him back in and getting ready for him to crash another one! :) I like it. A bit slower shutter speed for more blur would have been nice and, since the nose is chopped off anyway, maybe cropped a bit farther back on the right, but it's a very nice shot.

Excellent catch of Tagliani. Ideally, I'd like to see a bit more to the right. I can't make up my mind whether I would like it aimed higher, too--I think I like it as-is, with the roadway curving underneath. Looks like you really nailed the focus. Great shot!

 

Wonderful! I love the (cat-assisted) composition and the lighting.

Nah, if you could read the tires, it would look like the car's parked there. (And they say "Firestone", btw.) Very nice shot. Pan shots are tricky and I think you pretty much nailed this one. The other car in the background adds a lot, too, and it's nicely positioned relative to Adrian's car.

 

Did you shoot this in 2000? That looks like Jimmy Vasser in the Ganassi car in the back.

A polarizer would have probably helped with glare. Panning a 400 at slower shutter speeds is tricky, but a monopod would help. As for faking a slower shutter speed shot with Photoshop background blur, personally, I dislike that sort of fakery. But, if you tried it, you'd also have to somehow give the wheels more rotational blur.

Not bad. You've got some motion blur and the Lotus is sharp. I think I'd prefer it with the tires at the bottom cropped out, and maybe a bit less space behind the car and a bit more in front.

Beautiful!