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Ahhhh so it's you who owns this car Looks awesome! Will come have a chat if i see you at WTAC/have time! Good luck and congrats on finishing the build!

I never use a monopod unless i'm holding a 400 2.8 or 500. Turn the IS off and practice your technique more. Panning is all about technique. Unless you were shooting stupid shutter speeds below 1/15th. I'd recommend starting at 1/100th, get consistent results, then drop down to 1/80th etc... I usually pan at around 1/40th-1/60th depending on if i'm getting paid or not lol.

I live on the Beaches too Alan. If you see a white evo 8 MR driving around give me a toot! Practicing some panning for WTAC aye matt?

Cheers Pez Matt doesn't rhyme with anything good like my name does! Oh wait... Matt....Homo...

Thanks Nick Rainbow beach looks epic!!! alan_key - Do you live on the beaches? And have you been looking at The-Lowdown lately Turned out good! Maybe use another flash on camera right for some more fill and to kill the shadows? Another from Bree's Shoot.

Haha yeah. Such a good colour. Blue just pops so much easier. BTW - Those Fiat 500 shots, did you paint the shadows in? First shadow looks a lot "real-er" than the rear shot. Or maybe it's the low angle and shape of the car, looks like a pyramid haha. Such a rad car. I want one!!

One from Bree's Shoot i did on Sunday.

They are some friggin cool night shots!!! Epic shots in this thread. I hope your clone stamp gets a present after your done! I'm back from the snow and it's time to start taking some shots!

^^ Yep.

Pissing down here on the Beaches. Just stopped not long ago. Awesome 1 1/2 hr drive ahead in peak hour traffic. THINGS I DO FOR YOU. Peace out.

I've used it on my mates camera when he hired it. Great lens. He is actually in the states and is buying one over there as we speak. I own a Canon 24-70 and it's basically the same. The Canon one might be a touch heavier. If your planning on shooting wide stuff, this is not the lens for you if you don't own a FF camera. If you did own a FF camera this would be equivalent to shooting around 16mm on a crop. A lot of lenses out there have a constant aperture of 2.8. There is a tamron 17-50 2.8 - Have you considered that? I believe this lens is super expensive in the Nikon lineup ~$2400? Either way, you will love how sharp it is, great walk around lens as long as you don't want to shoot wide.

Decent glass also does not depreciate very much. I'm talking L lenses. Post up if you have any dramas with your camera that you don't understand too

I saw JAY-199 on the M4 on the way home from yours matt. Nearly freaked out thinking some crazy adeladian was in Sydney!

Haaahahaha forgot we all did that photo.

Are you guys going to have official media guys there covering the event? Might be worth a roady! P.s. Congrats on the site, looks like plenty of views for only one day

I'm going to add to this. EVERY SHOT IS RE-TOUCHED. Be it in a magazine or website or where ever you see one. Most of the n00b's who haven't been shooting long and are new to the scene won't retouch or will do minimalistic re-touching but sooner or later, they will start editing more. The point of shooting in RAW is that it is a RAW photo. The preview on your screen is of a JPEG image. Hence the contrast/colour/saturation/sharpness of it all etc.. but when you put that in photoshop as a RAW photo, you will lose all of it and it's up to you what you want to do with it. I have 19 points of AF, and i only use one. I hate auto. It focuses where i don't want it to. I also don't shoot with a D7000, i shoot with a Canon 7D, but it's along the same lines. Zone focusing isn't bad, but again, when i want to be precise, i prefer using single point.

I'm going out friday night, sat night so sunday is probably off the cards. What about saturday morning? I think Matt can't because he has business to attend to with the boss, can't remember. Can anyone go on saturday morning for like half day?

might be in for sunday. Completely forgot about this PMA Only got reminded of this today at work!

Awesome 4WD'ing shots Rhys and hope your car turned out alright hahahahahahahaha. Some sweet pics in here and great captures!

F*cking Lol. Keep feeding her that green curry buddy Serg - That Porsche shot is rad at 1/30th anything turns out sick! Wakey needs some colourful backgrounds or something! Seriously, tracks everywhere besides NSW are so much better

Oh and get hotties to mode in front of the car.

What about we hire that Dragon studio's place out? It's the one you can get cars into as well. Get to use there 15ft light bank. If we all chip in, maybe it will be cost effective? Unsure how much it is.

Good tips here and killing it Serg. I don't like 1 or 2 because of the extreme angles, but i know how you feel when you want to change it up especially when you shoot events that often, purely straight or a slight angle gets boring fast. I like the creativity Some From Circuit Clubs Trackday on monday. FYI, these were shot at 1/30th (mostly). More to come on TLD!

So much win in this thread!

Hey mate, don't have any pics sorry, but you check out www.visionr.com.au . Wei is his name. They are an official distributor in Perth and do sets really really cheap. I'm tempted to get some Rota's