Aha! Reverse panning blur! I tried to sell that concept, but Carl just wouldn't buy it. :) No, Fuzzy, I'm not pickin on ya. Just yankin yer chain a bit. Photo attached.
Dr. Z, ya done right good. That's a great photo. The action is shown with the moving bike; the finish line is depicted just as the mental image would have it: Static, unmovable and a "constant," if you will.
It's outer space, man...sumpthin like that."More fotos! More fotos" as heard over the roar of the greaspaint and the smell of the crowd. :) (Yes, I'm tired and gettin goofy from fatigue.)
I wuz gonna shoot the car show in Kamas today. From the outset, the little voice in the head kept saying, "bag it, man." But I didn't listen. I should have. When I got there, it took collaboration between my GPS and the dumb-ass smart phone (I'm jumpin ship as soon as I can. Motorola just ain't cuttin it with promised upgrades) to find it but eventually I got to the designated location....only to find that I couldn't get within blocks of the show, since it was surrounded by a whoop-de-do festivities like a county fair and apparently a rodeo. So I did what my head had been telling me. I went back home (after picking up something to eat and drink on the road) and then I undertook a project, the sanity of which is still in question. I installed the legal copy of PhotoShop CS5 on the Dreadnought mainframe. Strange as it might seem, once I got all the pertinent data from my daughter-in-law, the install went perfectly. Now all I have to do is learn how to run the damned thing. I sure miss customizable toolbars. Maybe there's a back way into that so I don't have to go searching for menu options. But it runs and now I need to install it on my laptop, too.
Next: I got the generator, which works fine as far as I've tested it and I've found a 2-room tent (a boudoir and a sitting room...how Victorian) that I'll be buying from the guy I'm working with on www.landracing.com to cover the course prep starting the Monday before SW starts on Saturday. I'm gonna do a photo journal thing and see if I remember how to write copy for the masses. I did a lot of that in my marketing minor (undergrad) and maybe some of it will come back.
Nonetheless, I've got a big job ahead of me...not just that portion, but shooting a particular pre-dawn shot for next year's SW program cover. Amazing. If somebody had told me 5 years ago what I'd be doing I just wouldn't have believed it. So I'll be at Jim Halladay's house tomorrow morning to start preparing a trailer with scaffolding so I can get to about 20 feet higher than the standard ground-level shots. I guess I otta do some kind of photo diary on that project, too. But I have the tent, the generator and the inflatable mattress...all I need is some carpet remnants and a way of arranging lights for the "sitting room" where I'll be beatin my head against PhotoShop as the learning curve continues.
My schedule is so full for the next 9 weeks that I may have to clone myself so I can get into twice as much trouble. I gotta tell ya, tho: I wouldn't trade this life for anything....even with the bumps in the road and other little "Big Corporate Entity vs the small freelancer" problems. I'm finding ways to work around 'em.
So it's back to work on...whatever seems to be in front of me at the moment. Right now, that's finishing a coupla posters for one of the small-bore racers and then doing a prototype of the Spec Mazda poster...then adapt that to the salt flats cars and bikes. I think I may have found a niche market. We'll see.
So the periscope is goin down as I dive into this project to get prepared for the salt flats season.
On a slightly sad note, it appears that Rufus isn't gonna make it to Speed Week. Too much to do, too many other things with higher priority. And I don't think I'll have the Monte Carlo ready for World of Speed in September unless I make some time for it and I don't know if I have the time to spare. There's always next year.
r (Hot enough for ya?) On 7/24/2010 10:04 PM, Michael Wells wrote:
All,Here's a sample from today's action at Miller. as it turns out this is one of the toughest pictures to get you can imagine why when you see it. I'll post more in the next few days.Dr Z -- Dr. Z aka Michael Wells MCWells Photography mcwellsphoto@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:mcwellsphoto@xxxxxxxxx> 801-850-7279
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