Reno-Stead May 13th AutoX Photos ! [Archive] - Subaru Enthusiasts Car Club of the Sierras

skrphoto

2007-05-13, 05:48 PM

here are some photos i took at todays reno scca event. i may be printing some out, ill bring them with me to the reno-fernley event next weekend and probably in june when we have an autocross back in reno. i won't be making it to the north vs. south event. i hope you guys like them. if you shoot me an email to skrphoto@gmail.com i can get your the bigger files or check to see if i have more photos of your car.

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b144/scootk05/Black_RS_01.jpg

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b144/scootk05/Black_RS_03.jpg

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b144/scootk05/Black_STI_01.jpg

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b144/scootk05/Black_STI_02.jpg

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b144/scootk05/Black_WRX_01.jpg

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b144/scootk05/Black_WRX_02.jpg

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b144/scootk05/Black_WRX_03.jpg

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b144/scootk05/Blue_STI_04_01.jpg

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b144/scootk05/Blue_STI_04_02.jpg

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b144/scootk05/Blue_STI_04_03.jpg

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b144/scootk05/Green_Wagon_01.jpg

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b144/scootk05/Green_Wagon_02.jpg

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b144/scootk05/Green_Wagon_03.jpg

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b144/scootk05/Maroon_Legacy_01.jpg

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b144/scootk05/Maroon_Legacy_02.jpg

skrphoto

2007-05-13, 05:49 PM

some more photos.

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b144/scootk05/Silver_2_STI_01.jpg

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b144/scootk05/Silver_2_STI_02.jpg

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b144/scootk05/Silver_88_STI_01.jpg

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b144/scootk05/Silver_88_STI_02.jpg

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b144/scootk05/Silver_BSP_STI_01.jpg

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b144/scootk05/Silver_BSP_STI_02.jpg

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b144/scootk05/Silver_BSP_STI_03.jpg

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b144/scootk05/Silver_WRX_wagon_01.jpg

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b144/scootk05/Silver_WRX_wagon_02.jpg

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b144/scootk05/White_STI_01.jpg

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b144/scootk05/White_STI_02.jpg

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b144/scootk05/White_STI_03.jpg

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b144/scootk05/Yellow_STI_wagon_01.jpg

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b144/scootk05/Yellow_STI_wagon_02.jpg

Kevin M

2007-05-13, 06:03 PM

Nice! My car's gonna look good lowered! :lol: Thanks for the pics Scott!

BOO

2007-05-13, 06:04 PM

Great pictures! :)

Nick Koan

2007-05-13, 07:25 PM

Nice pictures man. Thanks!

Dean

2007-05-13, 07:42 PM

Cool, thanks. Any chance of getting full size versions?

skrphoto

2007-05-13, 07:47 PM

yea, email me on the address above. skrphoto@gmail.com and tell me what car and number you were and i can email full versions out.

MattR

2007-05-13, 07:51 PM

Great Pictures! Man those Silver Subaurs look fast!

Forgotten

2007-05-13, 08:06 PM

The pictures look great. Thanks!

Slopoke21m

2007-05-13, 09:41 PM

Awesome pics!!!! did you by chance get any of our Camaro...the red black and white one. Let me know either post them here or e-mail them to me Slopoke21m@aol.com... thanks Louie

skrphoto

2007-05-13, 09:53 PM

im not sure if i did.... well maybe more like i don't know what it looks like ? lol i have some photos of that blue newer camero... and a red/brown mustang looking thing ? and a white/primer grey mustang thing ? is it one of those ? lol

13 TSP and 21 TSM ?'

Scott

wrxkidid

2007-05-13, 10:11 PM

did you take any pictures of saturday or only today?

Slopoke21m

2007-05-13, 10:26 PM

my bad.....didnt realize this was for sunday, we were there on sat only

ScottyS

2007-05-13, 10:27 PM

Woah, did I just see Scott's car?

Nice pics!

skrphoto

2007-05-13, 11:03 PM

Yea, i took all the above photos today and only took a few on saturday before my run. I was gunna take some more but we were short people for cone duty so they wouldn't let me skip out to take photos.

Scott

wrxkidid

2007-05-14, 12:07 AM

from the ones you had on saturday did you by chance get any of the black evo 235 N?

matt why does your car have a T above the B? did you switch to street tires or something?

skrphoto

2007-05-14, 12:10 AM

i actually had one decent photo good sir. enjoy = )

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b144/scootk05/Black_Evo_01.jpg

wrxkidid

2007-05-14, 06:13 AM

sweet thanks man.

MPREZIV

2007-05-14, 07:19 AM

Very nice! I personally enjoy the first two!

NevadaSTi

2007-05-14, 08:27 AM

and a white/primer grey mustang thing ?

Scott

That's me!!!

Post them up!

Nick Koan

2007-05-14, 08:33 AM

cody

2007-05-14, 08:33 AM

Sweet! Thanks for taking those.

Emailing you for bigger files... :)

skrphoto

2007-05-14, 11:32 AM

Welcome to the board Scott.

Are you the Scott that drives the Miata?

yup, the red miata /w white hood.

here are the white stang ones.

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b144/scootk05/white_stang_02_cp.jpg

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b144/scootk05/white_stang_01_cp.jpg

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b144/scootk05/white_stang_03cp.jpg

Forgotten

2007-05-14, 11:37 AM

Scott, you live just up the street from Fritz's right? I see your car all the time when I walk home from school.

sperry

2007-05-14, 11:43 AM

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b144/scootk05/Black_RS_03.jpg

Not only is this a sweet picture, but it's also a great example of heads-up driving... check out Cory craning his neck to look into the next corner. :cool:

...and it's cool to see that in virtually every other picture in this set, everyone else also doing a great job looking ahead. It seems like Dean's harping on us for the last few seasons is actually working! (Dean, please note, this is not an invitation to harp on us more. :P)

Also, I didn't even recognize my own car, so I touched it up so it's more familiar:

http://www.seccs.org/images/misc/smoky_04.jpg

skrphoto

2007-05-14, 11:48 AM

Scott, you live just up the street from Fritz's right? I see your car all the time when I walk home from school.

lol yes sir. i live directly behind fritz's, but ill be moving shortly to a house up off socrates. tired of the drunk ppl vandalizing my car. i've had ppl pour beer on it, egg it, and some bastage threw a brick at my hood (hence the new white one).

dknv

2007-05-14, 11:50 AM

Also, I didn't even recognize my own car, so I touched it up so it's more familiar::lol: Nice. (Did you forgot the dollar signs coming out of the exhaust?):)

sperry

2007-05-14, 11:52 AM

:lol: Nice. (Did you forgot the dollar signs coming out of the exhaust?):)
:(

:lol: :lol: :lol:

Dean

2007-05-14, 11:52 AM

Also, I didn't even recognize my own car, so I touched it up so it's more familiar:

http://www.seccs.org/images/misc/smoky_04.jpgLooks like Mike put a timed release swarm of bugs in Scott's hood scoop. :)

MPREZIV

2007-05-14, 12:00 PM

I found it amusing that all of the photos of Scott's car were of it's more "photogenic" side... i.e. the not fenced side! :lol:

ScottyS

2007-05-14, 01:46 PM

i actually had one decent photo good sir. enjoy = )

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b144/scootk05/Black_Evo_01.jpg

Could you give me an idea of how you got this shot? Approx shutter speed, zoom level, panning technique, etc? I tried hard to get that effect when I was out taking pictures, with little success.

skrphoto

2007-05-14, 02:04 PM

Could you give me an idea of how you got this shot? Approx shutter speed, zoom level, panning technique, etc? I tried hard to get that effect when I was out taking pictures, with little success.

well the thing is, when we're out in the sun like that there is ALOT of sunlight available for the camera to adjust the aperature and the shutter speed for you.

so the camera will likely pull a moderate aperature for decent depth of field, but with those low aperatures the shutter speed will have to compensate for a SUPER fast speed. 1/5000ths etc.

most motion will be totally stopped by 1/500th. so what i did was cranked up my aperature. f22 and lowered my shutter speed. like 1/100 - 1/180th. if you were to just try and snap photos of moving car at this speed they will probably be blurry, but if you pan with the moving car while taking photos you can get the background to blur and the image your panning with to stay in focus.

just practice on moving objects. it takes alot of practice to time it correctly and maintain the object your panning with to stay in focus. i took about 500+ photos from saturday and sunday combined and have to go through them on my pc at home to cull out that out of focus ones.

hope this helps = )
Scott

skrphoto

2007-05-14, 02:09 PM

oh yea, most of the photos from saturday were blurry because i was sitting near the bus, where the cars were turning, so when i panned i had to pan in a "u" shape, while they were making the turn. practice standing like directly parallel from a moving car when you start trying to take panning shots, its much easier.

and when you try and look at the photos in the little lcd (im assuming you have a dslr). make sure to zoom in and look at numbers or the headlights, those are good indicators if you panned at the right speed because they will be SUPER crisp.

that above evo shot isn't in focus as much as i'd like. -_-

wrxkidid

2007-05-14, 05:28 PM

hey i like it so thats all that matters. i love how the backround is blurred.

makes me seem like im driving super fast :cool:

skrphoto

2007-05-14, 05:48 PM

yup, thats the point = ) i used to shoot for the UNR newspaper last year and have grown acustom to making images tell a story. if its just a snap shot of the car, with wheels frozen still it seems kind of bland and not storytelling. with the blur it gives the photo a bit of sotry telling.

Scott

skrphoto

2007-05-14, 07:21 PM

a few more photos.

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b144/scootk05/yellow_datsun_01_cp.jpg

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b144/scootk05/yellow_datsun_02cp.jpg

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b144/scootk05/yellow_datsun_03cp.jpg

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b144/scootk05/rotorolla_03cp.jpg

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b144/scootk05/rotorolla_02cp.jpg

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b144/scootk05/rotorolla_01cp.jpg

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b144/scootk05/yellow_11cm_01cp.jpg

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b144/scootk05/yellow_11cm_02cp.jpg

wrxkidid

2007-05-14, 08:18 PM

why does it look like the nissan blew up again?

Kevin M

2007-05-14, 08:25 PM

That's just the oil from saturday burning off of the headers.

wrxkidid

2007-05-14, 09:00 PM

i see.

Libila

2007-05-14, 09:19 PM

Great pointers!

I was shooting the first run group on Saturday and I tried panning with little success. I'll just have to keep at it.

sybir

2007-05-15, 07:05 AM

a few more photos.

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b144/scootk05/rotorolla_02cp.jpg

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b144/scootk05/rotorolla_01cp.jpg

This thing is dope, is it an RX2/3 or a Mango? I can't tell with no front end and no pillars, lol.

Dean

2007-05-15, 07:17 AM

I think it is an old Corolla with a rotary engine.

sybir

2007-05-15, 07:29 AM

lol, so it's both :p

Nick Koan

2007-05-15, 08:01 AM

lol, so it's both :p

Yeah. On the sign up sheets he calls it his Rotorolla.

NevadaSTi

2007-05-15, 08:22 AM

Thats plus one cone on #15!!!

ScottyS

2007-05-15, 08:31 AM

Kevin M

2007-05-15, 08:50 AM

This thing is dope

Actually, not really. :lol: It's a terrible car.

sperry

2007-05-15, 09:45 AM

Actually, not really. :lol: It's a terrible car.
I think the car is pretty cool... it's just really "rough around the edges"... IIRC it's been through several owners, each one butchered it a little more. It really needs an expensive going over to clean it up and make it pretty.

Kevin M

2007-05-15, 09:51 AM

Funny, the story I got is that John's the original owner. :lol: Who knows. I just know that it looks and sounds terrible. :p I mean, if I see an RS that has had that treatment in 20 years I will either cry or get violent. Or both.

dknv

2007-05-15, 10:21 AM

Funny, the story I got is that John's the original owner. :lol: Who knows. I just know that it looks and sounds terrible. :p I've heard the same - he got that car new when he was in high school, and has been the only owner. Now the motor, that's a different story I think.

sperry

2007-05-15, 10:47 AM

Hey Scott, would you mind if I link to some of these photos from the Reno SCCA website?

sperry

2007-05-15, 10:48 AM

I've heard the same - he got that car new when he was in high school, and has been the only owner. Now the motor, that's a different story I think.
Wow, I must be thinking of someone else's car... or maybe I'm just thinking about the various motors it's had... :lol:

skrphoto

2007-05-15, 11:03 AM

Hey Scott, would you mind if I link to some of these photos from the Reno SCCA website?

no not at all. i might throw somemore photos from 'other' cars up incase they ask. not just all the suby ones. lol

i'm thinking about trying to get a website up soon to include all these with albums or events and such, but i've been much too lazy.

Scott

skrphoto

2007-05-15, 11:10 AM

Thanks for the tips. Yeah, I was trying the low shutter speeds and overexposing slightly too, but the panning timing was killing me.

Even when I pre-focus, there is a slight delay to the shutter, so I need to practice "swinging through". The problem shows up when the viewfinder is obscured during the shutter release process --- you aren't able to follow the car. I need to probably a) zoom out a little more, b) use both eyes, c) take a lot of throwaways.

Yeah, the likelihood of getting a super-crisp shot at full resolution is probably nil with my gear, but at least photos like that EVO look great at 800x600 or so.

I'll keep practicing.

yea, just keep practicing panning the entire scene, over and over. and if you have a dslr don't be timid with the shutter release, just snap away. the worse that happens is you fill your memory card and have to delete a buncha picture. one problem i ran into though was with the cones, it was SOOOO hard to pan perfectly and get the damn cones out of the way. there was like a 20 foot section i kept trying to get the cars in on that turn.