ProSolo Photos ... El Toro

[Mako Koiwai]

First shots up ... showing how late the event went. I believe Marshall and a Mini driver get a re-run tomorrow morning after they finally had to call it.

http://public.fotki.com/makofoto/2009-a ... o-el-toro/

[Mako Koiwai]

Saturday's shots uploading now. Sorry, didn't come out today ... couldn't justify it after shooting over 1,500 shots yesterday. I think I got everyone except for Charley Hoyt, who SPECIFICALLY asked me to shoot him!

Charley ... SORRY, I didn't realize you ran RIGHT after lunch ... and we didn't get back onto course until the first few cars had completely their runs (and we only arrived after your morning runs) ... also missed getting decent shots on the course of my friend Andrew B !

[Q V]

pics look great! thanks Mako! So many cool pics.


Night of the Living Dead Pro Solo?

[Mako Koiwai]

You should have arranged to have lined up with your buddy! There is only so much I can do with PhotoShop!

[Q V]

You should have arranged to have lined up with your buddy! There is only so much I can do with PhotoShop!

LOL, actually we got to run together today! It was really fun running against Randy Chase & Steve O. (he instructed me back at one of the Solo schools when my car was stock & black), but it was REALLY fun running against someone I was evenly matched with

Time to decide which photos I want to get.

[Randy Chase]

I had fun running in XP too. Great stuff Mako!

[Steve Glusman]

As always -- great shots!!!


I really wanted one of the Z-06ish vette -- guess that one was in the dark I just missed seeing it....haha


Your photos have convinced me to get a larger sway bar!!

Steve G

[Tin Bui]

Here are my photos. Had the camera for a month and first time doing panning shots.

http://public.fotki.com/Kaizen81/el-toro-pro-solo-2009/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Mike Shin]

Here are a majority of mine. I didn't really get a chance to shoot much that weekend, but I'm glad I had a chance to shoot on Sunday morning. There was beautiful light breaking through the clouds.










I'll have all of them up shortly along with the SD Nat'l tour photos

[Mako Koiwai]

What Karen did with one of her shots from last year:

... never mind.

[Mako Koiwai]

Interesting dark dramatic look ... seems like the drivers might like to see themselves though?

[Jason Uyeda]

Here is what Karen did with one of her ProSolo photos:

Why use a pic where it looks like you're behind... If I were to put a pic on a check I'd use this one

[Mako Koiwai]

hahahaha ... of course ... but Karen liked the shot with her gf Andi

[Mike Shin]

Interesting dark dramatic look ... seems like the drivers might like to see themselves though?

HMmm looks alright, but I like them the way I had them just fine. Thanks ;)

[Jeff Shyu]

i shot all my pictures on sunday at +2/3 stop so that i can capture a bit more of the detail and be able to drop it down in PP.

course, the pictures that my computer (at home) is currently churning out don't have any PP done, so will probably all look blown out.. we'll see when i get home.

[Mako Koiwai]

Plusing the exposure? Digital is like transparency film ... what is overexposed is gone ... once it's white+. I typically under expose 1/3rd stop ... so that I make sure I don't lose any detail ... and then lift the exposure in PS.

Of course shooting in RAW gives you so much latitude.

What'sPP ?

The new cameras have options for better high light compression ... looking forward to that.

[Leonard Cachola]

What'sPP ?.

Post Processing.

[Mako Koiwai]

Jeff ... so shouldn't you be doing exposure corrections before batch processing the RAWs to Jpg?

[Christine Grice]

Jeff ... so shouldn't you be doing exposure corrections before batch processing the RAWs to Jpg?

I think he got tired of doing that and just said "screw it" post them all and go back and fix some later.

[Mako Koiwai]

Yeah ... but ... once they're jpegs + overexposed ... you can't correct as much. But he can always go back to the RAW files for some choice shots.

[Jeff Shyu]

all the raws are on the computer.. it's all on lightroom, which, for some retarded reason, does not have a batch process -where you can resize-.. i can do batch adjustment outputted to full size jpgs, with each file being 5 megs.. >_<

and i always expose to the right. digital photo isn't the same as film, a full 1/2 of the information is stored in the first stop of the picture, and then it exponentially decreases from there. so by overexposing, as long as you don't get blown highlights, you actually retain the most available information.

expose to the right.

i'll be able to post up the pictures tonight, and then start selectively PP'ing some of them.

[Marshall Grice]

Also be aware though that by doing this you are in fact effectively lowering the ISO used to capture the image, requiring slower shutter speeds and/or larger apertures. If you are hand-holding the camera, or shooting moving objects, the tradeoff may not be worth the reduced noise level.

i'm thinking i'd consider race cars as "moving objects". }:)

[Jeff Shyu]

Also be aware though that by doing this you are in fact effectively lowering the ISO used to capture the image, requiring slower shutter speeds and/or larger apertures. If you are hand-holding the camera, or shooting moving objects, the tradeoff may not be worth the reduced noise level.

i'm thinking i'd consider race cars as "moving objects". }:)

you'd be suprised how "slow" cars are after you're used to panning at bird speed.

a red tail hawk swooping down on a gopher is a "moving object"..

[Will Kalman]

Mako, I like the driver's faces but if you look at the front bumper of Ken's car, it looks like a bad paper scan. Yeah, I know a lot of that is due to processing a JPG, but still. Given the images shown, I'd probably settle for somewhere in between.

Jeff, that makes sense to expose to the right. As with audio analog to digital conversion, half the signal strength has half the resolution (one bit less, actually). It would make the most sense that the perfect exposure is one where the brightest single pixel was at full-white. The RAW image wouldn't be good for direct viewing but would contain the most information to be used for processing to the output device - printer, screen, etc.

I'd figure that digital cameras have the ability to get pretty close since they're already processing a preview image on the fly. Hmmm, is that a limitaion on DSLR's vs non-SLRs since the main sensor is not being exposed during shot composure?

[Mako Koiwai]

Yeah ... as long as you keep an eye on the over exposure ... which I find with car finishes is never to far away. OTOH ... over exposure helps so one can see the driver.

Do a seperate batch process in PS to size your files ?