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This weekend, Saturday Morning that is, WRXatlanta (the atlanta subaru owners club) will be having a meet at RoadAtlanta
Click Here For Pic. Saturday, the temp will be around 53 F, and it should be sunny with no signs of percipitation.
We will most likely be doing most of the photos around the pit area. Although I believe we're gonna get a few drive arounds. (its not a real track day, people are still broke from the last!)
I am one of the co-founders of the club, but because of my university life I have not had too much of a chance to participate recently. I used to take the club photos when we had 10 members show up (which was quite a feat at the time) but the club then grew and we have 58 drivers willing to wake up early and goto the track a good hour drive away (there should be more people than that there though)
One of the people there is a professional photographer, I havn't really seen his work or anything, but I'll be honest, I am already intimidated. Enough people have told me my work is good, so now I believe them, but I don't want to be majorly outdown by this guy.
The other members who will be shooting I am not really worrying about.
I just want to know if you guys have some unique suggestions, maybe a really impressive autoshot gallery for me to look at to get some better ideas.
I will have my 350D, 28-135mm usm is, and hopefully I'll get to borrow a 17-40L. (and a tripod)
Now we want to get a few real good group shots, and we'll do a lot individual shots and smaller group shots too. I want to be able to capture as much detail w/ the least amount of noise with the gear that I have, especially with the group shot.
I have noise ninja and a few good sharpening techniques to help me out afterwards, but I want to know what you guys can suggest so that I don't have to edit as much. I think I'll be shooting at raw+jpeg or just raw, there will be a laptop there to transfer the pics to a hard disk just in case i need more space.
Any help is very much appreciated!
hey, we love the $25k 0-60mph in 5.4sec 
, and the 30k version, oye....
as for zoom, will i really need it? i mean the cars will mostly be stationary, and if not, i think ill be hanging out of a window as theyre on the track or as they pass....
if you convince me, i might even steal the 70-200mm for a bit...
but i need a good reason to at first! i was more woried about capturing all the cars...
also do you think stiching a group shot is a bad idea?
Quote: Hey, we love the $25k 0-60mph in 5.4sec
Yeah, cheap thrills in a straight line I guess!!
Being in the US I don't suppose you saw the programme over here where a Scooby was shown to be slower than a 1.6 Fiat until the turbo cuts in (after a long pause)? Hee hee!
Even on an airfield at a private event you may find 200mm is only just about enough. However, if you are doing static shots with the cars parked up you won't need to worry too much about telephoto. But you may find that people are more interested in action shots and will pester you for these.
in a straight line? hah....these things corner quite nicely sir, even motor trend believe an STI could beat an enzo if given the right track (trust me, i agree on most tracks it would lose) the AWD on these puppies is quite lovely...
and I love clarkson, but he doesnt seem to come on BBC america...
we'll try a few action shots, but if you read my boringly long post, if we get drive arounds, it wont be that many.
The only piece of advice I can offer is to get a circular polarising filter if you haven't already got one. Will kill reflections and show the cars better.
If you've got sunny weather leave the ISO setting low and noise shouldn't be a problem.
I would shoot just raw, especially if you've the laptop.
How well do you know the pro-phot? I'm sure he's just a human and might even help you out if you ask nicely... 
OK... no laughing but I'm a member of a car club too. I'll not mention which one!
Anyway, as Fez mentions people love action shots, especially at RWYB event (Run What You Brung).
Practice your panning technique for these. Also to add a bit of dynamic, tilt your camea slightly. I'm terrible with names, but there's a guy on here that does excellent motorbike shots in motion. Look at those and you'll see what I mean.
Next to look for at a large meet, is modified cars. These always go down well. Get down low, and using a wide angle get in fairly close to one of the front wheels. This will make the exaggerate the size of the wheel, and make it look 'bling'... LOL. Capture major ICE (in car entertainment) systems too.
At night, make sure that you capture ground effect lights (neons) on those modified cars. Use a slow sync flash to capture the car, and the glow underneath (or inside.. etc.).
Last but not least, you normally get a collection of very pretty girls at these meets. Make sure you use a whole 1.0 Gb card on those!
Hee hee! I know full well what a Scooby is capable of - just wouldn't touch one with a bargepole that's all! A few BMW owners I know have actually bought one: they soon sold them (after about 6 months on average) and came back into the fold! 
Anyway............ I do seriously suggest that Fez gets his hands on some longer lenses if he can. There may be only a few drive arounds but it will be the action shots which will be in demand - especially for what purports to be a performance car. Oops - there I go again!!
Lol!!
(Only winding you up, Fez - I'm sure you realise that!)
love the scoobys they piddled all over the BMWs at a forest section in Cornwall recently, try a 70-200 2.8 l as it blurs the background out.
forget a tripod you will not need it, a mono pod at the most. most car photographers tend to use panning techniques to really blur the background and keep the car sharp, try some really low down posistions for shooting
have a look at my profile and marlin owners for some rally stuff
take the 17-40 for close up car portraits.
lets see a range rover at over 60 mph through hairpin bends on shale tracks ,may not be a lot of fun CB. we did have suped up landrover come through very fast side ways as a rally start car.
the old rear wheel drive BMWs were fun you can see one in my portfolio nearly taking out a photographer
spell checked by a northern monkey!
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