[ratpack] Re: What would you do?
- From: "PAUL W WATSON" <TSWATSON78@xxxxxxx>
- To: <ratpack@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 4 Jul 2010 08:09:07 -0600
You general admin. ticket usually allows you access to the paddock area,
without an ALMS blue vest you may not be to welcome in the ALMS garages.
p
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From: Michael Wells<mailto:mcwellsphoto@xxxxxxxxx>
To: ratpack@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:ratpack@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, July 03, 2010 11:56 PM
Subject: [ratpack] Re: What would you do?
I don't have credentials and I'd love to get to know the guys with Air Power
Racing but I might be going to the track with a newbie. I don't know if they
would let us both shoot for them but I'll let you know as the week progresses.
I'm taking Friday off so I can spend the day at the track so if the Air Power
guys just want car shots I can do that on Friday. I don't know if they'll let
me in the pits & paddocks on Friday without a ticket or credentials then I'd
love to have your pass to shoot the team in the pits and paddocks. The guy I'm
going with works for a media company in the area so I might be able to get a
sponsor for the rest of the races so we'll see how it goes. So just to show you
guys that it's not all cars and bikes this is what I did this morning, I
haven't done any post processing on this pic I've just re-sized it so it's
almost straight out of the camera..
Dr Z
On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 11:15 PM, Ray Buck
<rbuck@xxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:rbuck@xxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
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programIf you had a photo like this...
...that shows a car in mid-air right by the sponsor's airbag?
Would ya send it to their publicity department? If ya did do ya think
they'd (they being the series...who refused me credentials) would try to claim
ownership of the photo? As ya prolly know Tom Shannon gave me a ticket for the
cheap seats that MMP gave to him. He and his wife used 'em on Saturday and I
got one of the Sunday tickets.
I have one more in the series that has the car right in front of the
airbag...hell, I don't know what to do with it.
Here's one more shot I found interesting:
It was about the best use I could think of with the backlighting.
The car show in Logan damn near kilt me. Like I wrote, I'd intended to get
an earlier start, but as usual, I had to stop and visit with people and this
and that....I was real tired. I'm far from caught up now, but I gotta get
these 2 events finished up before ALMS.
So...any ideas would be appreciated.
Ohh..there is an outside chance that I might be out of town for the ALMS
weekend. I hope it doesn't turn out that way, but if it does, I'd like to
offer my arrangement with Les Long to someone who doesn't already have
credentials. I know that the Zamboni is a little short in that area but I
dunno about Muttley. It'd be a full commitment to cover Air Power and the
race(s) that he's organizing. My plan is to start on Thursday and be there all
day, every day until the last dog is hung.
One more thing. I love 8 gig CF cards. I shot the whole Logan show on one
card. I've re-thought the temperature sensitive issues I heard about a year
ago and decided to chance it. If shootin all day in the 95F temps didn't hurt
it...well, it seems to be a good deal. Amazon, Sandisk Ultra II for $33.50.
I'll probably buy one or two more since the images from the 7D are considerably
larger than the 40D's were. Oh...the 6 rechargeable NiMH AA cells in the
powerpack lasted all day and still had more in 'em. I bought a charger and
batteries, also from Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Sony-BCG-34HRMF4-Battery-Rechargeable-Batteries/dp/B0002IOIMQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1278220006&sr=1-1<http://www.amazon.com/Sony-BCG-34HRMF4-Battery-Rechargeable-Batteries/dp/B0002IOIMQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1278220006&sr=1-1>
and 8 extra batteries (it comes with 4.) The nice thing about this charger
is that it will drain the batteries before charging (If ya tell it to) to avoid
discharge memory. So far I'm real happy with it. I DID use up the 4 AAs in
the flash, but they weren't freshly charged when I started.
Enuff.
r
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