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| Posted: Sun Apr 24th, 2016 21:33 |
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Robert
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Nice Mini Graham. The D3 is continuing to amaze me, without any clever stuff like re-sampling or layering, I have pulled this one out of a hat. The cars are way too far away but have cropped to 100% and the result is passable. (for me anyway) This is the original full image, showing the crop in Lightroom. D3, Nikkor 300mm f2.8 @f11, 1/200 Sec, ISO200.  The crop, processed in Lightroom and selective Nik filters applied to improve local contrast. OK, it's not perfect and could only be printed fairly small but it isn't bad. 
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| Posted: Mon Apr 25th, 2016 04:28 |
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Graham Whistler
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Eric no did not know him. I was in Rhodesia working as a photographer 1962-1975 and did all my motor racing there and in S Africa. (Pix by the way was taken with a Nikon F, with something called film?
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| Posted: Mon Apr 25th, 2016 12:22 |
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Eric
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Graham Whistler wrote:Eric no did not know him. I was in Rhodesia working as a photographer 1962-1975 and did all my motor racing there and in S Africa. (Pix by the way was taken with a Nikon F, with something called film? Shame...you missed a real character. He worked from buildings behind his family pub in Watford, where I lived. He did some bodywork repairs on my wife to be's car and we got to know him very well. He introduced different bodywork to mini racing and was always trying new things. A bit of a 'lad' in many ways. The local constabulary kept an eye on his antics. They included driving a formula (not sure which one) racing car from Watford to Rickmansworth one night....with his girlfriend 'sat on the back'. The police stopped him and he was genuinely bemused at their astonishment. After 'dropping' her off..he shot off with two police cars chasing him...one ended up in a ditch. Shortly afterwards he lost his licence ...I believe even his racing licence. On a positive note, he did a brilliant repair job on the wife's car.....twice. While awaiting for it to be picked up outside his yard, a refuse vehicle backed into it....so he had to repair the other side as well. Lol https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=heL84f5limE Health and safety??? Those were the days.
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| Posted: Tue Apr 26th, 2016 04:18 |
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Graham Whistler
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Sound an interesting person, yes times have changed. I passed my driving test in Watford 1959 when I was in training in Kodak's Advertising studios at Ruislip.
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| Posted: Tue Apr 26th, 2016 15:45 |
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Eric
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Graham Whistler wrote:Sound an interesting person, yes times have changed. I passed my driving test in Watford 1959 when I was in training in Kodak's Advertising studios at Ruislip. I took my driving test in Watford in 1968! Small world.
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| Posted: Tue Apr 26th, 2016 15:57 |
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Eric
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Appologies Robert for hijacking your thread. The D3 is a special camera. Its crops are quite exceptional. That's what I meant about it being 'forgiving of technique'. It just seems to be sharper, even handheld without VR, and although the resulting cropped files are smaller, they are still printable quite large. It was why I stuck with the D3 rather than upgrading to the D3S or the D4. They may have been better but I just didn't need to incur the on cost....the D3 was all I needed for my work.
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| Posted: Wed Apr 27th, 2016 03:18 |
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Robert
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Not a problem Eric, I enjoy the diversion, I would have added a pic of my rally Mini but I have been so distracted over the last few days, I just haven't had the time. The Crystal Palace video was lovely, comparing that with the ultra secure circuit at Donington is from the sublime to the ridiculous. The trouble is it's very hard to present a cohesive argument against safety, no matter how inconvenient it may be for photography. Each year even tighter regulations further increase the safety both for competitors and spectators. Usually the result is more expense and less access. Motorsport is inherently dangerous, that's obvious, yet there is no end in sight for the tinkering and tightening of the regulations related to safety. That was one of the reasons I gave up competing in 1988. </rant> Back on Topic...  I tried two techniques depending on the corner. With the longer shots I cranked the shutter speed up to 1/1,000 sec, in M, using f 11 to maximise the DoF and used auto ISO to control the exposure. This is novel for me, with the D200 I had to keep the lens wide open to keep the ISO max at 400 and to get a decent shutter speed in Aperture priority. The second technique was to reduce the shutter speed to 1/200 sec to show the wheel rotation and background panning blur but I found that if the cars were bouncing on the track it made the back of the car have vertical blurring. I had planned to refine the settings on Saturday racing to get sufficient wheel and background blur, AND a sharp car. What impresses me is, given I was using a manual focus 300mm lens, the extreme cropping and the nature of the subject, the detail like the sill sticker text, is amazing. This is from 12Mp images. I can't imagine ever needing more detail than that, these are very heavy crops, yet they are perfectly usable images. I think they could probably be resampled upwards to increase the pixel count for printing quite large, although I haven't tried that. I have NOT applied any sharpening to any of the D3 images in this thread, beyond a touch (24%) of 'Clarity' and a little 'Dehaze'.
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| Posted: Sun May 29th, 2016 17:47 |
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Robert
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Have had a few distractions of late. There has been an off road 4 wheel drive trial nearby, I couldn't resist... All taken with the D3 and 80-200 f2.8.  That's my son, Christopher leaping out of the way, that was the first Land Rover to make it to the top... And it is as steep as it appears. it was made even harder by a previous competitor knocking down a tree which was in his way. Nobody was allowed to remove the tree this competitor made it look easy.  The guy in the background was using a D3S, I think he was from the local rag, knew nothing about motorsport... 
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| Posted: Mon May 30th, 2016 05:19 |
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jk
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Cant beat the old LandRover 90 or earlier SWB models.
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| Posted: Tue May 31st, 2016 21:42 |
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novicius
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Great pics. , and that D3 is a Nice Catch Robert ! Have you tried wide-angles on it ? Reason I ask is that my 20-35 f2.8 afd does Not work well with the sensor on my D3s .
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