February Photography Competition

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February Photography Competition

Post by alexperkins »

Welcome to our first official Photography Comp!!

The subject is Red

Being the most powerful colour in photography, I thought it would be a good subject to choose :)

Get snapping!

Please resize your photos to 800 pixels wide MAX to enable everyone to view them without too much scrolling. Thanks

Please also list what camera, lens, ISO, shutter speed and aperture you used when taking the photo. Thanks!


RULES:
One Entry Per Member
All images must be your own work
All entries must be recieved by Midnight, Friday 29th February 2008
After this time, I will start a poll listing all the photos).
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My entry would be

Red devil

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It's a spaceframed imp running slicks and a rear mounted GSXR1000 engine and sequential 6 speed box - and it frapping shifts so was really hard to get a good close up in focus on track but I was really pleased with the depth of focus on this picture at Mallory Park

Anyway - I take rubbish pics but here's a few more (not for entry but more to encorage a bit of picture sharing) that I took last year that fit in with a red theme :lol:

Red - It makes a good backdrop :wink: (this is my trackday car and photos I took when it was being featured in "Total Vauxhall" Magazine or "Total Corsa" last year

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and can be a good colour for detail shots too - wheels and brakes on the above car

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Red Victor (if you don't know what RedVictor is someone should check you for a pulse or you are registered blind :wink: ) It did some demo runs at Mallory Park - it's the fastest road legal car on street tyres over the quarter mile BTW

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Red(y) for use (USA Nascar November 07) I travel to the USA to watch NASCAR racing every year if I can afford it and last year I got a pit pass from SWMBO for my birthday so this got me much closer to the cars and pit equipment than I had ever been before - chuffed I was 8)

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Red Hot (Vintage racing is good fun if you get chance to see a race meeting live and trackside do it....

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Can you guess what it is?

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Answer is - Napier Bentley and in practice and in the race itself it was driven sideways most of the time - fantastic sight to see a seriously old car being given the beans lap after lap with smoke pouring off the tyres.

And I do occasionally do stuff that's not car related and concerts at night in a packed football stadium don't normally yeild decent pics

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Camera used for all pics Fuji Finepix S5100 happy snapper nothing flash or fancy and not a DSLR just a point and squirt with about 3 mega pixels and it's 4 or five years old - about to clock up it's 10,000th picture soon :lol:
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One pic per person please :) Choose the best ;)

Gotta stick to the rules im afraid 8)
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alexperkins wrote:One pic per person please :) Choose the best ;)

Gotta stick to the rules im afraid 8)
I'll chose the GSX1000 engined imp - damn thing was so quick I was amazed I got it in focus

As far as all the other images go - it's called sharing :wink:
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Post by alexperkins »

Sounds good - if you could highlight this above the photo so I know which one :P that'd be smashing.
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alexperkins wrote:Sounds good - if you could highlight this above the photo so I know which one :P that'd be smashing.
Done and added some comments to the other pics that just explain why I lke them all :wink:
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Post by CraigMK4 »

Yaaay nice one Alex! Been sitting tight for this :) I have some idea's for this, good theme 8)
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wahey 8)

I may try and give this a pop!
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Post by DanDiesel »

Ok, i've been waiting for this aswell, and my photo is this one:

A Robin Red Breast :D
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Taken at this years South East Meet with a 10MP Sony Alpha 100 DSLR camera using a Sigma 70-300mm lense. ISO 200. Shutter speed 1/500 sec.
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DMC-FZ18, Standard lens, ISO-100, Shutter Speed 1/3 sec, Aperture 2.8
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ModifiedMadness wrote:Image

DMC-FZ18, Standard lens, ISO-100, Shutter Speed 1/3 sec, Aperture 2.8

awwww tom, love u too buddy!! I'll get on to this when i can be bothered to wander / stops raining
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BTCC @ Brands Hatch - Clio Cup
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Carmera : Canon Eos 350D
Lens : Sigma 70-300mm
Exposure time : 1/400 sec
ISO : 400
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Nothing special, but I like this pic I took:

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my red poppy

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forgot to put the cam down lol
its a konica minolta dimage z5
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very nice 8)
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