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Couple of photo sets up

Sat, 2007-10-27 06:35 — tavares

Put up 2 sets.

One from MotoGP in Brno.

I like some of these. We managed to "sneak" into the inner access road. I was wearing

a photographer's vest and carrying the 100-400 lens mounted on my 30D mounted

on a monopod over my shoulder.

Kaddee had her XTi and 24-105 lens.

And a camera bag.

We walked up to the gate, the guy opened it before we even got there to let us through.

We were CLOSE.

The track had vans running around the inner and outer access roads to pickup

and drop off photgraphers. They even stopped a couple off times to ask if we

wanted a lift. We declined figuring that was pushing it :-)

 

Anyway

 

www.cairochronicles.com/jack/photos/BrnoGP

and

www.cairochronicles.com/jack/photos/Vienna

 

I am looking for comment on any of these.

such as "too much sharpening", recrop, desaturate,

saturate etc.

 

Thanks

 

 


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Sat, 2007-10-27 08:29 — tkpowell

You Lucky Bastard

First....kudos on pulling this off (sneaking in).  You have some really dynamite shots.  I definitely see some of those printed to at least 13X19.  My favorties are -

5507, 5528, 5538, 5555, 5604

I'd really like to see 5557 (the guy totally hanging off) but I don't get the larger version.

If I were going to print any of these, I'd probably massage them with photoshop...maybe remove some of the poles and other distracting features in the background.  Have to do some test prints first to deal with color balance, saturation etc.

--Terry

 


Sat, 2007-10-27 08:51 — tavares

Sneaking in and 100-400

Sneaking in and 100-400 lens is a great combo.

I actually had to pull in the lens on some of those shots cause i was _too_ close.

Buy one of those dorky photographers vests. Wear a hat. Have lots of badges hanging from your neck. Worked for us.

 Thanks for the comments.

I am going to have to try printing a couple. Never done that yet here.  I have seen some results from some printers and Iam underwhelmed.  

And I fixed the broken images. Thanks for catching that. 


Sat, 2007-10-27 09:09 — tkpowell

Printing

I'm 100% positive that some of these photos will look really cool printed at 13X19 after being tweaked a bit.  In fact I'd be happy to try it if I had an original.  :-)

--Terry


Sat, 2007-10-27 10:29 — tavares

Ok. Which ones do you want?

I will put up the .cr2 files for you
Sat, 2007-10-27 11:10 — tkpowell

Favorites

Cool..thanks Jack..

Ok there are about 6 but I'll settle for 5507, 5538 and 5604.

Perhaps I can do a small page on how I tweak them for printing in case anyone is interested.

--Terry


Sat, 2007-10-27 13:12 — tavares

email me at tavares@jacktavares.com

and I will let you know where to get the files.

 


Mon, 2007-10-29 22:14 — keith

WOW

Really impressive shots Jack! I especially like img_5873.jpg from the Vienna collection. Great eye on that one.

Tue, 2007-10-30 12:55 — tavares

thanks

that shot took a lot of patience. mostly to wait for other tourists to get out of the way.

and then I probably took 2 dozen shots to get that one.

ended up at 1/8000 sec shutter speed.

 

thanks again.

You guys are great for my ego!