[ratpack] Re: Hide the razor blades
- From: Michael Wells <mcwellsphoto@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: ratpack@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 08:44:27 -0700
At the enduro race I did a bit of experimating and instead fo rotating my
pictures during post processing I simply rotated the camera. It gave me some
interesting photos, anything on a flat plane gets to be boring after a
while. As an example http://www.pbase.com/twistedlight/image/118789717 this
Vette looks much better than this Vette (in my opnion)
http://www.pbase.com/twistedlight/image/119003333 because of the angle. I
have been looking at some racing photography sites and cars on a flat plane
are just boring after the first few cars.
But that's just me.
Michael
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Ray Buck <rbuck@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> At 09:24 AM 11/12/2009, you wrote:
>
> Going to the TACK? Hmmmmm..... That's tacky, tacky, tacky! Beautiful
> photeaux, altho a
>
> Ferrarri, or any car for that matter, appearing just short of stall speed,
> running up a 20%+ grade just doesn't turn me on.
>
>
> Well, if ya mean this one:
> [image: []]
>
> I agree with ya, I don't think I have a real good grasp on rotating
> images. I know that I've done some that have turned out acceptable, but I
> couldn't give a recipe for creating 'em. Larry does a wonderful job of
> this.
>
> Maybe we otta ax him to give us a demo on how he does it and what makes a
> good one or a bad one. Something to think about.
>
>
> "Course, Ray will tellya, I ain't got noooo aesthetic sensibilities atall
> atall.
>
>
> Well, I wasn't gonna mention it, but now that you did....
>
>
>
>
> Still thinking seriously about the tack tho. HOW he does what he does
> obviously costs him some $$, (not in equipment, although he has $ome $erious
> gla$$ and, no doubt dark boxes. But that's the photo biz amongst those on
> the pinochle of excess. Us hackers just do the best we can with what we
> have, and dream.... My hero has always been Peter Gowland. Carl
>
>
>
>
> The "pinochle of success?" That almost caused me to spew soup all over the
> monitor and keyboard. I haven't played pinochle for a coon's age. I guess
> that ain't too politically correct, but political correctness is to me as
> aesthetic is to Carl. :)
>
> I found that a photographer named Andy Southard made several books like
> "Hotrods of the 50s" and 60s...you get the picture (double entendre
> intended) which helped me with certain areas of shooting static photos of
> cars. I wouldn't call him a hero, but he did some pretty good stuff. And
> one real unlikely source of automotive photography is George Barris...."The
> King of the Xustomizers" (self-proclaimed.) He's definitely not a hero
> figure to me (hell, he got a start with his Kustom shop by...let's say,
> "dismantling cars for their component parts"...not necessarily with the
> permission of the owner, if ya catch my drift. Yeah, he and his brother ran
> a chop shop in the LA area before George took credit for a lotta stuff that
> his brother did (like the Hirohata Merc, the original standard by which
> kustom 49-51 Mercurys were judged.) The one thing I've gotta give him
> credit for is learning photography so he could get photos of his cars into
> the magazines like Hot Rod and Rod and Custom. Nobody at that time was
> shooting anything like that so he took the bull (or Rolleiflex) by the horns
> and did it himself. I'll give him credit for that. Btw, here's what he was
> doing in 2008:
> http://www.chevyasylum.com/cruisin/cruisin2008/080302/2008GeorgeBarris_01r8_jpg.html
> He's on the left, in the yellow jacket, selling autographs for $10 a pop.
> Sad. I guess nobody wanted to play shuffleboard at the old folks' home.
>
> I gotta go put hot compresses on my eyelids again. I can hardly see to
> type. Apparently I have a disorder that changes the composition of the
> tears and it's a 3-way feedback loop and if one part gets outta whack, the
> other 2 go nuts. If ya wanna read all about it go here:
> http://www.contactlens.org.nz/extra1.aspx No, I don't wear
> contacts...but the disorder seems to be almost endemic on folks 60 and
> older.
>
> I thought I had it under control, but today...well, just picture me lying
> flat on my back with a warm washcloth over my eyes (sorta like Mike's glove
> photo) but with an electric bass lying across my belly. Sorry if I scared
> any children with that mental image but no animals were harmed, yada, yada.
> At least I can turn on the XM radio (blues station, 874, I think) in my
> bedroom that I run from the DirecTV receiver to a small stereo amp and some
> very vintage speakers (like from 1969 or so) that still do the job. And I
> can play with my eyes closed. So I'll go amuse myself with that, since I
> the eyes are starting to cloud over again, every time I blink. Damn.
>
> Ray (the half blind) rat.
>
>
>
> ---- Original Message -----
> From: "Larry Knight" <Larry.Knight@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: ratpack@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2009 8:01:32 AM GMT -07:00 US/Canada Mountain
> Subject: [ratpack] Re: Hide the razor blades
>
> Ok this guy is good, but there is some info we don't know about him.
> Because he is everywhere at the right time I think we have to consider
> that he may have sold his sole to the devil to be at the right place at
> the right time, every time. He also has some big mm lenses!!! The
> picture of the reflections in the glass he is using a 600mm lense with a
> 1.4 converter, wow, now that is some big zooming. He also shoots with a
> lot of high iso and I don't see much noise (or course we can't blow them
> up as big as our own shots) Very interesting site Ray, I think you are
> right though Ray, we can all learn from this guy.
>
> I found an interesting site the other day with some fantastic panning
> shots. http://www.freezingspeed.com/g_race_cars.html. click on the
> ferrari challenge link and then click on the Ferrari 355 link. Ok I am
> biased toward the 355 as my almost all time favorite Ferrari, but the
> panning shots are fantastic. And most of them don't blur the back end of
> the car. I wish I could see the exif data on some of these. I am not
> sure how many photogs support this site, but I was impressed (not sure I
> like the cartoon word balloons though) I am sorry about the Nikon
> sponsorship on the page, I didn't realize was there till after I started
> this email.
>
> It looks like crappy weather on Sat, anyone still planning on going to
> the tack?? (Ok another little side note, we are surely lucky to be able
> to say that "anyone going to the track". Before MMP, when I was making
> my pilgrimages to Laguna Seca I always imagined two buddies in Monterey
> asking that question to each other on a Sat. and now we are saying that
> here in SLC, life is good, Thank you Larry Miller).
>
> Later
> Larry
>
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> From: ratpack-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [
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> On Behalf Of Ray Buck
> Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 7:29 PM
> To: ratpack@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [ratpack] Hide the razor blades
>
> A couple of year ago, Paul, Larry and I were ready to slit our
> throats after comparing our photos to those shot by Jeromy (official
> MMP photographer and I can't remember his last name...Camp
> maybe?) When I saw some of his shots from the World Superbike race,
> I wanted to spend some time sobbing uncontrollably before I did the
> throat cutting. His photos were orders of magnitude better than mine.
>
> I believe that we've all become better photographers and I think our
> shots compare favorably to his. But. (Why is there always a
> "but?") I've been following Mark Rebilas' blog (I posted the url for
> it here a coupla weeks ago) and I'm not sure that razor blades are a
> good thing to have readily at hand, especially when I see the way he
> does stuff like the photo journal of the NASCAR weekend at Texas
> Motor Speedway:
> http://markjrebilas.com/blog/?p=6975#more-6975
>
> I once read a comic strip (Ziggy) that said, "just when I figure out
> 'where it's at,' they move it." Seems that the bar has been raised a
> coupla notches...at least. Not only in the "pop and drama" that Paul
> likes to talk about, but his journalism and his apparent ability to
> be everywhere at once make for a VERY effective and high quality blog
> entry.
>
> I guess I better be prepared to work on my craft a bit (no, a lot)
> harder in the coming year. I spose seeing work like Rebilas' helps
> with seeing things differently and...well, whatever it is that I can
> learn, including the presentation of the photos and line copy (or
> accompanying text, if you like.)
>
> I better ramp up the learning curve again.
>
> RtR
>
>
>
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Michael Wells
MCWells Photography
mcwellsphoto@xxxxxxxxx
801-850-7279
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