Automotive Photography Competition #225

[Timothy (in VA)]

Congratulations to Putje for winning Competition #224!

Rules

• The deadline is Sunday 11:59 PM EST
• The photograph can contain any automotive image (containing no adulterous material)
• The proposed picture must be your own and not found on the net.
• The photograph must be attached using the UCP system. Any picture not attached using the UCP system will not be in the voting thread.
• Your image may be up to 800 pixels wide or tall.
• Photograph may contain post-processing editing
• It is preferred that you state enhancements made, but not necessary.
• The photograph must be taken no earlier than three months before start date
• Each photographer cannot vote for himself, they must vote for the others.
• Any users who enter and vote for themselves automatically receive a 2 week penalty from the competition and all votes previously given to his/her photo are removed.
• The entry must contain the following information in the same order :

User name
Subject matter/photo title
Date taken
Camera

Standings 2009

pat_ernzen: 4
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Fumacher: 3 / cmcpokey: 3
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basman007: 2
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G_13191: 1 / Rasmus: 1 / Sauc3: 1 / john hegg: 1 / superwaxer: 1 / Soloracer: 1 / Ecnelis: 1 / kvisser: 1 / nikowgcf: 1 / macfly: 1 / Johnnynumfiv: 1 / Whiteballz: 1 / Wouter Melissen: 1 / Putje: 1

[pat_ernzen]

pat_ernzen
"Something wicked this way comes..."
October 22nd, 2008
Canon 20D w/ Tamron 17-50mm f2.8



EXIF data:
f3.5
1/60s
200ISO
41mm
@ ~6:00PM while hanging from the passenger side of a Miata

[LeonOfTheDead]

I was about to enter...

maybe I will regardless of what's going on on the previous post

[henk4]

Henk4
Spyker in flames
Nuerburgring 1000 km race 23-08-2009
Canon 40D
110mm, F5.6 1/125 ISO 250
Resized with Irfanview, no further editing.

For illustrative purposes I have added (hopefully with permission from the competition runner) the next shot in the sequence, according to the exiv data shot in the same second as this one. The impact of the flames on the picture is staggering, I was on shutter priority, and surprisingly the aperture went up to F9. Apparently the camera is already compensating for the backlight. For the shot before the flames, one second earlier, aperture is still 5.6 and there is no light in the background and there are no flames. The flames were created by burning off excess fuel as the car stalled on leaving. (It was the decisive pit stop 5 laps before the end of the race, and the car was lying second with a small advantage to the nr.3 car)

[Fumacher]

Fumacher
Alpina B6
Belgium
25-09-2009
Nikon D90

[putje]

Putje
Ford GT FIA GT1 2010
Belgium, Zolder
25.10.2009
Canon 40D 100-400mm

[cmcpokey]

cmcpokey
Star Mazda
Monterey Sports Car Championships
10 October 2009
D80

[Niko_Fx]

Every single shot so far is amazing!

[drakkie]

Pity I am too late; I got some nice shots on one of our car tests recently.