This seems like a good place for people to post up their best automotive pics. This is so other members may get some ideas and be able to increase the overall skill of automotive photography. Feel free to add CONSTRUCTIVE critisim.

Laufiro Drift car, (Nissan Cefiro with Laurel front end), "DSCRET". Taken at D1NZ Round 5, from the very edge of the track, while the car drifted past.

http://tinypic.com/ek7lg

nice pic.

its not easy to catch the motion of a drift properly. Whats ya secret?

Iv posted this a few times, its not technicaly perfect, but its got great timeing!



Its Vince's GTR at full power!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v31/Moppie/107-0778_IMGretouched.jpg

If I told you it wouldn't be a secret...



Pure dumb luck :thumbsup: Just follow the car and hope for the best :)


Moppie, I always love in that pic how the passenger's head looks like it's about to break off.

Does it have to be an action shot? The only pic I have that's action is this one:

http://www.joelynch.org/pen138launch.jpg

And it's a frame capture from a video I shot. I've put up a few stills of cars in other threads, but they haven't gotten much attention.

true moppie that one was good timing

like the drift pic, very nice work, good tracking shot. :D

this is all i have on my work pc... :( it's a bit low Q as it was scanned from a print i took three years ago. it was taken on an air field 'track day' - no armco just BIG run-off's and a mile long straight. oh yes, and you have to give way to air craft.... :)

http://files.automotiveforums.com/gallery/watermark.php?file=/3246/237929kemble_20010426_104_sm.jpg

the guy in the lotus was sh!te at driving and everyone was specifically told no over taking on corners (as it wasn't really a track day, no one's insurance would pay out if we were seen to be 'racing'). so what does he do? he tried to overtake round the inside of a tuned honda prelude, but wipes out and takes the honda with him. i took the picture about half a second after the inital impact. you can see how far the lotus has pushed the honda over (look at the body roll). to make matters worse, this was only the 2nd lap (you can see the passenger in the honda still has the course map out) and the lotus owner had only has his car about two weeks. he was balling his eye's out the pansy. well it was his own fault. and because he was overtaking on a corner the club insurance wouldn't pay out so he had to pay for both cars to be fixed.

LOL!!

I remember the first track day the first Elise's in the country showed up to. The owners soon discovered that they handle extremly well right up to the limit, but get them on the limit and you need to be VERY quick to catch them and keep them inline.
The cool thing is they are quite easy to fix, I can garuntee the Prelude would have come off 2nd best, despite being made of metal :(

Great photo!


99civichic
Thats pretty cool, its not easy to get the timing right to catch a car with the wheels in the air.
Next time, instead of holding the camera still pan it with the car as you press the shutter, with practice you will the car in focus, and back ground blurred like Toksins drift photo.

Awesome pic zzpza, reminds me of this one I took:

http://tinypic.com/ekegg
Landmine!

sweet! that's a very cool pic. :D very dramatic camera angle and good composition. only bit letting it down is the focus, but i'm guess this was a grab shot, right? still very impressive.

j.

Yeah, grab shot. THey're doing about 95mph at that point, so it's hard to get it perfect :)

i have posted this on here before. that is my roommate. i took the pic while riding about 40mph while in the bed of my friends truck. i thought it turned out great. i guess i got lucky.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v12/sickvanilla/bik3.jpg

nice pic :) the fence really adds to the feeling of motion. well done. :D

what camera did you use btw? did you have any exposure correction set? it seems a little overexposed for my taste...

He used an OLYMPUS C3040Z
and ISO 100, 1/10 @ F:9.


The problem with capturing motion blur during day light is getting a slower enough shutter speed with out over exposing (as is the case above).
With most SLR lens you can stop right down to something like F:22, with a point and shoot your limited to usualy something around F:8 on a really good camera, and prehaps only F:5.6 on a lower speced model.

Im working on adding my own ND filter attachment to my A80 so hopefuly I can get around the problem.

Its a cool photo though, takes some skill to hold a camera steady in the back of a truck while tracing a subject with such a low shutter speed.
Most shots like that seen in magazines are done with a proper rig on the back of a camera vechile useing stablisation equipment.

He used an OLYMPUS C3040Z
and ISO 100, 1/10 @ F:9.

no exif compliant viewer here @ work... :(

The problem with capturing motion blur during day light is getting a slower enough shutter speed with out over exposing (as is the case above).

shutter speed has no correlation to correct exposure when using automatic metering. in aperture / shutter priority mode you set one and the camera sets the other based upon the exposure value for the image you're trying to capture. unless you put it in manual mode or dial in some exposure correction the end result will always be what the camera believes to be correctly exposed. however as this is an olympus, i'm guessing that they are still trying to pass off esp as a 'good' metering model (bastardised center weighted with backlight detection) and is the most likely reason it's a bit overexposed (looks about 2/3 to 1 stop which is the same as my om-40 used to produce).

Im working on adding my own ND filter attachment to my A80 so hopefuly I can get around the problem.

have you tried any of the push fit filters? or, i use the (very cheap) adapter/hood on my g5 (for attaching the wide and tele converters) which has a 58mm thread on the end of it. i then attach all my usual cokin p filters. :) i'm pretty sure they do one for the a80. do you have a removable collar round your lens? if so, that's how the hood/converter attaches.

Our local West Texas drag strip...storm's rollin in, race before it rains!

http://files.automotiveforums.com/gallery/watermark.php?file=/503/238578duster1.JPG

Our local West Texas drag strip...storm's rollin in, race before it rains!

good catch! very dramatic sky. :)

Here's one I took soon after I bought the digital. ( Nikon Cool Pix 885) I have a better one at work where I have PS the grass and the Christmaslights out.
Well, It' says I may NOT post attatchments? Guess I'll check the FAQ and my CP

Here's what I think are my two best shots from the LA Auto Show...

This one would have been near perfect had the car not been spinning, the shot's a little blurred due to that.

http://img121.exs.cx/img121/9688/me412.jpg

This one would look better minus the people's shadows on the door and if there was a little more light on the rear of the car.

http://img121.exs.cx/img121/8651/s38.jpg

Well, I got a new digital camera, and while attempting to use it tonight to take a picture of a local early 70s Camaro, I came up with this:

http://joelynch.org/strip pic.jpg

I thought it was kinda interesting actually....I wish he hadn't still been turning, maybe the nose would be a little more in focus!

Nobushige Kumakubo's Team Orange S13 pick-up, sitting docile in the pits before the drift event in June of 2004. Kazuhiro Tanaka's Sileighty is barely visibly in the back-ground.

http://tinypic.com/1o930k

not my best, but definately one of my favorites:

http://img252.echo.cx/img252/2897/dscn14019ma.th.jpg (http://img252.echo.cx/my.php?image=dscn14019ma.jpg)

Here are a few of my favorites...
http://www.remleyracing.com/NWNats/Untitled-1.jpg

http://www.remleyracing.com/NWNats/sidebyside.jpg

http://www.remleyracing.com/phototakers/BMW/IMG_0100.jpg

http://www.remleyracing.com/autoforums/jerry.jpg

I love seeing trans ams doing stuff like that.....

nice use of available lighting on the celica

That BMW 5 pic would have looked really good if it wasn't for the dang streetlight in the sky behind it.

http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/2857/gtoinverted7ik.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

2005 GTO and me.


http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/3409/engineinverted5eq.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c206/loeman/rod1.jpg
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c206/loeman/rod2.jpg
Here's a couple of old ones I dug up. Got a lot more where that came from :)

My input, Sold the Pic to RUF germany two weeks ago.
http://www.badpolizei.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/normal_DSCF0013.JPG

Then this one for the paint
http://www.badpolizei.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/normal_DSCF0543.JPG

http://pic10.picturetrail.com/VOL348/944371/1745642/141473503.jpg

http://www.modernpics.co.uk/full_bancolarge.jpg

http://www.modernpics.co.uk/volvolarge.jpg


hey guys just 2 of mine, loads more at http://www.modernpics.co.uk
dont steal cheers
Dom

Gotta love those Texas sunsets.
http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g133/xevenskyline/313895157_l-1.jpg

My buddy took these of his car.
http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g133/xevenskyline/735190976_l.jpg
http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g133/xevenskyline/735190759_l.jpg

I made this one with the mindset of making it a cool desktop background. Too bad my digi cam at the time wasn't up to par.
http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g133/xevenskyline/BackviewofWillscar03-06-06.jpg

One of my favorite pics.. really hard to have it take btw, because I was running a stop sign, so my friend who was holding the camera to take the pic had to tell me when to go.

http://img259.imageshack.us/img259/6305/dscf00759ap2hp.jpg

and here's my Monte next to my friend's Caliber when he just got it.

http://img259.imageshack.us/img259/5047/10002443fy.jpg

Yes we parked on the grass, CAUSE WE CAN!

http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/4658/car19qs.jpg
http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/7788/car22wu.jpg
http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/1675/front18mo.jpg

New to the forum, shoot semi-professionally, here are some of my favourites from the last couple of months...

http://static.flickr.com/34/96242938_e5c858c4f0_o.jpg

http://static.flickr.com/43/106730365_4effa198f7_o.jpg

http://static.flickr.com/54/106730917_9f2293ef54_o.jpg

Wow... some of you have some VERRY nice action shots. Not sure if mine are quite up to that level, but here's a few.

My car
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/energon22/Cprelude1af.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/energon22/Cprelude2af.jpg

Some pics from a local car show last weekend
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/energon22/CDHLaf.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/energon22/CDflamesaf.jpg

well here we go... im a pretty amateur at this,a nd dont take many photos... my weapon of choice.. (or not so much choice) is an old 4MP olympus E-10 D-SLR... well here are some of my pics...
http://ic1.deviantart.com/fs10/i/2006/108/4/e/carburator_by_shiftdrift.jpg
a picture of the carburator off a ford flathead v8 head i have...
http://ic1.deviantart.com/fs9/i/2006/057/1/5/lead_sled_by_shiftdrift.jpg
i would post more, but im scared the pics are a bit big... tell me if theyre fine or not...

Here's mine:
http://img172.imageshack.us/img172/8369/pict0176nq6.jpg
not great, but keep in mind we were doing 100KM/H...This was taken in Saskatchewan on my way home from B.C.

I was gonna say... That sure looks like Saskatchewan!!!! I live in Saskatoon, so that's a VERRY familiar sight!

I think if I post here, it would take too much space so I will break them down and select a few. I am not a new member but due to the fact that I don't remember my previous sn I was forced to make a new one. Here are the pics of Team 5qu1ntyc4mz. Team 5qu1ntyc4mz is the northeast Camry crew. Although we are still in the beginning stages, we are growing daily. Anyway, here goes:

http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/7299/squintycamzmember11zg8.jpg

http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/7127/squintycamzmember12nr3.jpg

http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/6256/squintycamzmember13fd4.jpg

http://img144.imageshack.us/img144/6933/squintycamzmember22bn8.jpg

http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/1757/squintycamzmember21uk8.jpg

Here are some more:
http://img183.imageshack.us/img183/1711/squintycamzmember32am6.jpg

http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/7958/squintycamzmember31hl8.jpg

http://img183.imageshack.us/img183/4958/squintycamzmember33jx5.jpg

http://img183.imageshack.us/img183/1783/squintycamzmember41et8.jpg

http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/223/squintycamzmember64md0.jpg

Mine. And yes, I realize it is a nearly stock Civic, so you don't have to rmeind me. I take a high level of pride in my car, so :tongue:.

http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g162/kmiracle1984/Random%20EM2%20pics/aFTERDAY1.jpg

http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g162/kmiracle1984/EM2NashvilleSkyline.jpg

http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g162/kmiracle1984/avatar.gif

Not mine, just some buddies cars at a recent local meet, all taken by yours truly:

http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g162/kmiracle1984/YellowS2kITB.jpg

http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g162/kmiracle1984/WhiteSTi.jpg



http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g162/kmiracle1984/BlkCoupe.jpg

http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g162/kmiracle1984/Evo9RS.jpg

http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g162/kmiracle1984/EVORSMEET.jpg

http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g162/kmiracle1984/JDMITRconvert.jpg

a couple of my more recent edits from shots i took over the summer.

http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/2673/selectiveratrodar8.jpg

http://img81.imageshack.us/img81/2403/selectiveflamesut4.jpg

a couple of shots i did early in the year.

http://img48.imageshack.us/img48/963/dsc00518fs.jpg

http://img119.imageshack.us/img119/263/dsc00479pi.jpg

http://img270.imageshack.us/img270/9638/gt3net7cf.jpg

http://img1.putfile.com/thumb/1/021271538.jpg (http://www.putfile.com/pic.php?img=4397924)

http://img1.putfile.com/thumb/1/021271575.jpg (http://www.putfile.com/pic.php?img=4397925)

http://img1.putfile.com/thumb/1/021271639.jpg (http://www.putfile.com/pic.php?img=4397926)

http://img1.putfile.com/thumb/1/021271661.jpg (http://www.putfile.com/pic.php?img=4397928)

some of my favourite pics from the last year of ownership :grinno:

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h131/mk1_4dr/mk14dr/DSCF4908.jpg
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h131/mk1_4dr/mk14dr/DSCF4900.jpg
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h131/mk1_4dr/mk14dr/DSCF4902.jpg
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h131/mk1_4dr/mk14dr/DSCF4904.jpg
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h131/mk1_4dr/mk14dr/DSCF4909.jpg
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h131/mk1_4dr/mk14dr/DSCF4890.jpg
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h131/mk1_4dr/mk14dr/DSCF4880.jpg
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h131/mk1_4dr/mk14dr/DSCF4876.jpg
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h131/mk1_4dr/mk14dr/DSCF3487.jpg
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h131/mk1_4dr/mk14dr/DSCF4369.jpg

and a sly one of my friends car that i think came out pretty cool

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h131/mk1_4dr/mk14dr/DSCF4935.jpg

Audi R8 V12 TDI 2008:
http://www.carondesktop.com/d/51420-2/Audi_R8-V12-TDI_2008_02.jpg

my mates new drift car, after 3+ years in the making

http://www.devolve.co.nz/gallery2/g2data/albums/silvia_cruise/IMG_3724.jpg

http://www.sunsetclassics.com/1966-jaguar-stype/images/1966-jaguar-stype.jpg

A 1966 3.4L Jaguar S-Type Saloon (http://www.sunsetclassics.com/1966-jaguar-stype/) really a classy looking Jag.

This is really a forum topic I could get into - what's better than great automotive photography? :)