Geek!

Night time shots - tripod required, try long exposure 15s?

Great macro shots by the way

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Kris
95 ST205 - slept for 10 years, now waking up...
Avensis
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Turbocharging - the replacement for displacement

well went out to whisby nature park with my new lens, the big gun 150-500mm sigma and my oh my, what a stunning lens it is.

all shot at 500mm and bearing in mind these are of dragonfly the first the detail is stunning the lens can get, i missed the head focus point but the bugger was quick!

Not bad for a 500 at the 500mm end and not a macro, hand held too





and a duck



and some of the Awac landing near us the other day



and i have sorted the art of motion blur now to a tee so over to the cars it is!



So in short, i absolutely love the big Sigma, without doubt a great purchase

If you did that in greece you would be arrested!!!

Cool plane!

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FN2 Civic Type R w/Mugen Parts
Toyota Celica GT4 ST205
Toyota Celica GT4 ST185

Aircraft are awesome. I only have some helicopter pics like this:

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René - Carlos Sainz 2433•5000
Turbocelica.nl | ST185 CS restoration and full rebuild

If it ain't broken.. it soon will be

Ha. I like your humor. I do my best. Shame I need to get teh feeling of panning the first load of pics, every event again! Here's a few showing the action quite well I think, you can find more on my website [/spam].

Le Mans 2012


WRC Spain 2010


WRC Germany 2010

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René - Carlos Sainz 2433•5000
Turbocelica.nl | ST185 CS restoration and full rebuild

If it ain't broken.. it soon will be

indeed, i got the big 500mm especially for wildlife, motorsport and aircraft.

Aircraft look bob on, especially zoomed right it.

taken last night with the big sigma

Nice moon

Now these are not my pics but my cousin has started to transfer from regular photography to astro photography and is getting very geeky about it.

To give you an idea of the procedure you need a big telescope with SLR mounting, motorised base/tripod that is linked to a PC that keeps the moving planets/stars still in the view-finder (so must accurately track the movement). A series of long exposures are taken over a few hours. The results just look like a grey snow show. Each exposure is then layered in a computer programme to ascertain what is noise/fluff/crap in the atmosphere and disgarded the processed exposures then become one image of the star/random space stuff you were trying to picture but only just or maybe not visible. Spend quite a few hours playing around processing in photoshop or some uber geeky piece of software per picture and you end up with pictures like this.....






The kit used needs a transit van to transport to the middle of no where:-


He is an uber geek!

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JP
GT4DC Treasurer

Grey St185 RC
Silver BMW E46 M3
Multicolour yawn Honda VFR400
Silver Honda Civic Type-R

Very nice. I was and an tempted to get a 2x converter for this lens, would turn it in to an 1600mm lens, so basically double as close as the above image!
Do love the night sky, even if i don't know what half it is. Haha

These are amazing images JP! I'd love to do this in Oz. The atmosphere is so clear you can see the satellites ISS and shuttle pass overhead. Shame the shuttle programme is finished.

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GT4DC Chairman
1994 Toyota Celica GT-Four ST205WRC JDM 269bhp @ 0.9bar
1994 Toyota Celica GT-Four Special GT 590bhp @ 1.8bar
1989 Van Diemen RF88/89 Formula Ford 1600
2008 Nissan Patrol GU 3.0L ZD30DDTi 154bhp

do love the colours in the sky in this one




and taken on this, god i love the lens! haha

The sky from yesterday from end of our road





And i got asked to do all the photography for a music festival on friday and sat and heres one of a young lad lives on our estate, very brave, up on his own playing.