Here are a few shots from the action today:

http://www.trail-gear.com/bbs/2010-werock-2/IMG_1957.jpg

http://www.trail-gear.com/bbs/2010-werock-2/IMG_1990.jpg

http://www.trail-gear.com/bbs/2010-werock-2/IMG_1997.jpg

http://www.trail-gear.com/bbs/2010-werock-2/IMG_2027.jpg

http://www.trail-gear.com/bbs/2010-werock-2/IMG_2060.jpg

http://www.trail-gear.com/bbs/2010-werock-2/IMG_2106.jpg

http://www.trail-gear.com/bbs/2010-werock-2/IMG_2137.jpg

http://www.trail-gear.com/bbs/2010-werock-2/IMG_2157.jpg

http://www.trail-gear.com/bbs/2010-werock-2/IMG_2179.jpg

http://www.trail-gear.com/bbs/2010-werock-2/IMG_2198.jpg

That must not have ended well for Nick :eek:

Some more...

http://www.trail-gear.com/bbs/2010-werock-2/IMG_2224.jpg

http://www.trail-gear.com/bbs/2010-werock-2/IMG_2281.jpg

http://www.trail-gear.com/bbs/2010-werock-2/IMG_2282.jpg

http://www.trail-gear.com/bbs/2010-werock-2/IMG_2318.jpg

http://www.trail-gear.com/bbs/2010-werock-2/IMG_2360.jpg

http://www.trail-gear.com/bbs/2010-werock-2/IMG_2389.jpg

http://www.trail-gear.com/bbs/2010-werock-2/IMG_2415.jpg

http://www.trail-gear.com/bbs/2010-werock-2/IMG_2466.jpg

http://www.trail-gear.com/bbs/2010-werock-2/IMG_2489.jpg

http://www.trail-gear.com/bbs/2010-werock-2/IMG_2530.jpg

Last 2

http://www.trail-gear.com/bbs/2010-werock-2/IMG_2557.jpg

http://www.trail-gear.com/bbs/2010-werock-2/IMG_2567.jpg

Very cool,...I grew up in Tucson. My dad and I used to drag race out at the raceway in the 70's when I was in high school. I wish I could have made it out there.

Last 2

http://www.trail-gear.com/bbs/2010-werock-2/IMG_2557.jpg



:eek::eek:

Very cool picture. Canon right?

S

http://www.trail-gear.com/bbs/2010-werock-2/IMG_2530.jpg

Great shots as usual. I really like this one with the buggy catching air and the clouds are awesome.

Looks like a perfect day! Great pictures JT!

hmm.

I follow rock sports, and didnt realize this event was going on this weekend till just now...

:(

Great pics keep em comin!

That must not have ended well for Nick :eek:

i might be wrong, but is that nick or shannons son? spotter looks like terry not jason. :confused:

i might be wrong, but is that nick or shannons son? spotter looks like terry not jason. :confused:

Ya, that's Wayland..........and he made it over on the next try.

Ooops, my bad....that is Wayland:)

Great shots as usual. I really like this one with the buggy catching air and the clouds are awesome.


Nice!

Ooh look and the perty clouds:flipoff2:

Looks like a perfect day! Great pictures JT!

Sunday was hellacious:eek::eek:Easily40-50 mph wind gusts with a steady 20mph and just enough rain to make all the dust stick to everything. I was up on top by the start for the SO and several times the wind gusts were strong enough to push everybody around.And of course,as soon as the awards were over the wind and dust went away:shaking:

Very cool picture. Canon right?

Looking at the embedded info in the photos, they were taken with a Canon 5D Mark II with a 24-105 f4.0 lens.

Great shots!

Yeah, they're really great shots.

Are you vignetting them by hand? I thought it was the camera at first, but that's an expensive rig to be losing corners like it is.

The 24-105 F4L lens is not really a good match for the full size 35mm sensor of the 5d MII. It is better suited for use with the smaller APS-C sized sensors. The harsh vignetting of this lens can be reduced by dropping the aperture size to above F8 and avoiding the wide end of the zoom range. His shots were taken at ISO 100-200 with the lens held open at f4 with the body in aperture priority mode. In this light, he could up the iso to about 1000 to compensate for F8 Aperture. This would also increase the depth of field and bring more of the background into focus.

Here is an example of the same camera lens combination shooting a wall...

http://chrisgeigerphoto.com/bbs/24-105.jpg

http://chrisgeigerphoto.com/bbs/24-105.jpg

Wow. But Canon says it's supposed to be a full-frame lens? Sorry for the questions... don't know a lot about modern Canon stuff.

Thanks everyone. I'll have Sunday's photos and the full gallery up shortly.

And about the vignetting:

It is done manually. It is unnoticeable on most shots otherwise and can be easily corrected in post processing if that is what you want.

The photos look exactly how I wanted them to.

still waiting on sunday's pics ,... jk jk but,. really .

Haha. Working on them, they'll be up before noon PST.

Great shots as usual. I really like this one with the buggy catching air and the clouds are awesome.

that was so much fun in the seat!! :smokin:

The 24-105 F4L lens is not really a good match for the full size 35mm sensor of the 5d MII. It is better suited for use with the smaller APS-C sized sensors.

Obviously a terrible fit....thats why the pics looks so terrible...huh Chris??:rolleyes:



The photos look exactly how I wanted them to.

They also look exactly how I think they should too... Awesome pics as always JT:grinpimp:

thats why the pics looks so terrible...huh Chris??:rolleyes:

Um when did I say "pics looks so terrible"? What I said about the photos (quoted from above) "Great shots!"

Click the image below to see the full gallery!

http://www.trail-gear.com/images/2010-werock-2.jpg (http://www.trail-gear.com/2010-werock-2)

Obviously a terrible fit....thats why the pics looks so terrible...huh Chris??:rolleyes:

That's a nice straw man you've got there... shame if somebody were to set fire to him.... :laughing:

I see a shot like this:

http://www.trail-gear.com/bbs/2010-werock-2/IMG_2557.jpg

And the first thing I think is "that's a really great shot that a crappy lens screwed up". The corners shouldn't be that dark, and they definitely shouldn't go monochromatic. It's one thing to burn down the edges to help frame an image, but it shouldn't be noticeable. This one is already a pretty short focal length, but the fall-off at the edges makes it look shorter than it is and pushes the viewer out of the frame.

This one, too:

http://www.trail-gear.com/bbs/2010-werock-2/IMG_2179.jpg

Maybe it's just that you expect the sky to be a certain color, a bit darker overhead and a bit lighter in the distance, but not black at the periphery. If there's too much garbage at the edges, don't burn it away, zoom in or recrop it later.

Again, I like the shots. But I usually see vignetting in a photo as a defect from a bad lens. I don't 'get' it as a stylistic choice.

I find that looking critically at other people's stuff helps me better understand what I do or don't like about the photos I've taken. Hopefully you guys see it the same way.

:beer:

I find that looking critically at other people's stuff helps me better understand what I do or don't like about the photos I've taken. Hopefully you guys see it the same way.


I don't know how JT see's it, but I see it as him posting pics that he took, and sharing them with others that couldn't be at the event, and some pricks telling him his equipment is sub-par, and talking shit about the quality of his pics...

Now once again....thats just how it looks to me.... not sure how he see's it:beer:

:lmao:

Keep in mind that a polarizer was obviously used, hence making the sky much darker and the original vignetting stronger than it would have been without it, but again, I know what I am doing and they look how they were meant to look.

Thanks for pics JT

No problem. You showing up at Donner? You're pretty close right?

He's got great equipment, the body he is shooting with costs $2500 and a 24-105 F4 L lens runs another $900. Personally I really like how the Canon bodies render flesh & earth tones. Very strong and rich browns without adding red like the Nikon's sometimes do.

some pricks telling him his equipment is sub-par, and talking shit about the quality of his pics...

Uh... pretty sure that one lens of his cost more than everything that's in my bag... so, no. That's probably not it.

JT likes it as a style choice, I don't. I wasn't sure at first if he was doing it deliberately or what... hence the questions and further explanation. It's just differing opinions about one aspect of the photos. On the whole, I think it's nice stuff.

JT likes it as a style choice, I don't. I wasn't sure at first if he was doing it deliberately or what... hence the questions and further explanation. It's just differing opinions about one aspect of the photos. On the whole, I think it's nice stuff.

See, now once you put it that way, you sound a lot less like a photo snob, and a lot more like a guy appreciating others photos:beer:

some quality pics, I like em. Thanks for posting JT