onefastviking

When I was married I did it your way, now I do it my way !

onefastviking

Geri has been doing the NASA events and I really like her pictures. Check them out at http://redlignautosports.com/ her use of angles , filters , etc makes for much more professional looking pics. She took my avitar pic.

Robert Henriksen

My pleasure. You did a great job trying out the changes!

jsh

Even though I was out of commission with a misfire and check engine light after the warm-up lap in the first session on Sat. morning, I had a great time. Thanks again to West, O.J. & Edwin for rides over the weekend. And double thanks to Greg H. for graciously allowing me to take his Miata out for a session. What a kick.............

mglobe

We have got to have some of the best advanced instructors in the country at tws. Props to dave, hugh, and Robert for some great driving lessons this past weekend.

Also a big thanks to Viking for helping me with suspension setup. Not only is my car now hooked up, but I learned something about observing car handling characteristics. What Viking and I did with both of us driving the car and comparing notes on the response to setup changes could open up a whole new avenue of instruction. Lots of fun too!

Greg Smith

I wish BH would use a slower shutter speed, all of his photos look like a bunch of cars parked on the track. I thought the TWS guy got some pretty good shots of my car a few weeks ago, better than ones BH has taken(granted at MSR).

Veloce Raptor

Yeah, I was more commenting on setting & vantage points. I look at Blair's TWS photos vs. Doug's, and Doug's just aren't taken from places that lend a lot of excitement to what is going on. JMHO....







Professional Racing and Driving Coach

TR6

One of the problems with Doug's photos is that he isn't taking them from anywhere that you or I cannot go and shoot from ourselves. I've shot photos from every spot that Doug shoots from at TWS (at the fence in front of T10, T1 high, T15 high, and the infield on the front straight). Whereas BH gets on the 4 wheeler and goes out to places around the track at MSR and ECR that mere civilians cannot access. I don't know if it is just a matter of TWS not allowing Doug access to the rest of the track. It would be cool if he could shoot from some other vantage points. But I do like Doug's photos taken looking down the front straight from T1 high when we are going CCW. Same spot I took these two from at the March clubrace.

pmgoodwin

Oh, I don't know about that. I just went through the pictures and he got a lot of really good shots of my instructors. Can't see me in any of them but the instructors look great

rlm328

He may have been trying to save his camera.

ervtx

Resolution:
Doug: 300 pixels/inch; Blair: 72 pixels/inch

Pixel Dimensions:
Doug: 3872 x 2592; Blair: 3959 x 3959

Converting Doug's 300 pixels/inch to 72 pixels/inch for comparison...

Pixel Dimensions:
Doug: 929 x 622; Blair: 3959 x 3959
(Blair's effective resolution is 4 times greater than Doug's)


File Size:
Doug: 4.5 meg; Blair: 1.5 meg
(Blair delivers 4 times the resolution in 1/3 of the space)

Exposure Program:
Doug: Shutter priority; Blair: Aperture Priority
(Doug favors control over motion blur; Blair favors control over depth)

Marketing approach:
Doug: If you attend the drivers' meeting, you know Doug.
Blair: Almost anonymous, and most often seen on his ATV "inside the fence".

A recent piece of Blair's work (cropped, resized and compressed for rennlist)...

Veloce Raptor

Look at BH's pictures of Drivers Edge events at TWS. Same track, much better vantage points. IMHO....







Professional Racing and Driving Coach

TR6

I didn't realize Blair shot at TWS. I'll have to look at them.

BTW, here is my contribution to photographic coverage of this past weekend. Happy hour in the garage.

ervtx

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Rockin' the casbah!!

mglobe

And that was just the Saturday morning driver's meeting.