Went to Englishtown today, ended up with over 400 shots (and a lot of them bad). It was a good learning experience though, and now I know what to look for next time.

Enjoy! Any comments/criticism appreciated.

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I'll be updating this thread as I go through and edit the rest...

One uv dose wuznt a car......

(You ask for C&C)

Not really a fan of loud cars that go fast. I just don't understand the appeal








Good shots by the way Dan.

Maybe you decided to give your cars away again?

It just never ends, does it...



Yeah, I guess it's not for everybody. Don't want to be scaring the sick animals.

Probably not!

At least you have a sense of humor about it!

How was the b-day?

Eh, nothing special. Went to the track, took pictures, the girl was busy tonight, so I went bowling with a few buddies. The parents did take $300 off of what I owe them though, so that was awesome.

Three more, time for bed now.

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AWESOME!

Great shots Dan,I'd go to the drags if Pomona wasn't so far away....

I noticed they're all Chevies(except one)is that intentional? Maybe Chevy only meet?

Good pics Dan.

No kidding...I first opened the thread and saw that ugly ass Corvette in the first shot and was ready to let him have it for burning my retinas with a picture of it...Until I scrolled down and saw that Chevelle.


Great pics man

# 12.
I love those old Impalas.

Thanks for all the comments guys.



Nope, not intentional, just kinda happened that way. It was a Corvette day though, so that's why there I have obscene amounts of Vettes. There's some old Mopars waiting to be edited (not a lot of Fords though for some reason. ).

Maybe the Ford guys were smart enough to know they didn't have Vettes, so it wasn't "their" day...??

Oh, what am I saying...!?

(j/k Ford guys)

Fixed.

hey Dan what kind of camera do you have? im in the market for one.... but nothing too crazy..

I cant contrl the focus and shudder speed on my current camera. The shudder speed is annoying because when the flash is off i have to hold the camera perfectly still or the pic is blury.... but at the same time i dont want some super expensive camera with 2000 different settings.

Like... my current camera is an automatic transmission. Those super high tech cameras are like a manual trans....... i want an automatic trans with the manual shift option... (ok.. /thread jack)

Shutter, not shudder.

And I've got the Canon EOS Rebel XS, with the 18-55mm kit lens, and the 55-250mm (which I used yesterday).

Any camera is going to need a slow shutter speed in low light conditions (less light means the shutter has to be open longer to let more light in and expose the image properly). But with a DSLR, you can manually adjust the shutter speed to where ever you want it to be, and adjust the aperture (how wide the opening in the lens is). The wider it is, the more shallow your depth of field is, but more light is let in. A lot of SLR lenses also have Image Stabilization, which is does just what it says, it helps get rid of camera shake with lower shutter speeds. But while it does help, you're still not going to be able to shoot at night without a tripod.

Another nice thing about DSLRs, is you can shoot at a much higher ISO. ISO is a measurement of how sensitive the sensor is to light. But, while the image will be 'brighter', the more sensitive the sensor is to light, the more noise (or grain) the images has. The high ISO capabilities of a DSLR are much better than most point-and-shoot cameras.

Also, all DSLRs I've seen have full-auto modes, so you can use it like a P&S. But, you won't necessarily get the 'best' images that way (though it will be better than with a P&S).

And my camera with the kit lens was about $450, I think they're selling for about $500 now.

Yeah i know this man Problem is that my current camera keeps the flash on in conditions where its not needed (not low light) and thus, if i turn it off (for a quicker response to my trigger) the picture gets blury.

I was just doing some searching and found this one http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?...indingMethod=rr (not bad huh?)

nice shots. i like the wheelies, always thought that it was really cool for a car to be able to do that. its cool how you caught it mid-wheelie too and you can see how the rear tires compress- you can see the ripples. cool.

Good eye, Jim...that '69 SS is sharp...I'm lookin' for a '66-'69 SS w/o paying a small fortune....

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Is that Camaro getting it's ass kicked by a Malibu?

Gotta love bracket racing

I had a '70 Camaro that exact color/top

This. As soon as I saw that picture I started laughing.

Oh, I hate it when I run a slow car like that. The last time I ran at the Texas Motorplex in Ennis, I got paired up with a truck running 17.8X's and I was dialed in at 10.8X. I had to wait for 7 seconds after he left before I could go. That was hard! He was half way down the track before I got to see any amber lights.

Pretty crappy panorama from the outside, but I liked the clouds...

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You're right. Very crappy.

Do you usually use a tripod for panos, or just hold the camera?

HOLY CRAP!

Who thought this was gonna look good? Looks like a water line on an ugly boat.

Nice pics Danno!

I love going to the local Drag Strip and shooting pics.






PIT BABES!

Fixed.

True.

Nice picture, Jim!

Guess who the queers are in this pic. (hint: it's not the pit crew).

Yeah, I thought about putting a caption on the pic. But, I knew someone else would.. haha!

Fine...I'll do it.

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Anybody else here like loud trucks that go slow too?

Now THAT is the kind of captioning I was thinking of!

Here's my own entry!

Yep # 2 and # 12 are my favorites. A 70 Chevelle SS and a 69 Impala SS. Don't get any better than this.

I have told you before, but my Dad was in the used car biz from the time I was child. He had a blue with black stripes 71 SS 454 4spd. It was on his lot during the oil crisis of the late 70s and I think he paid $800.00 for this car and sold it for around 1,400.00. He had countless SS Chevelles, Mach 1s, GT Torinos, Challengers, and even a Mercury Cyclone 429. Not a super muscle car but they were very rare. He bought almost everyone of these cars from a local Datsun dealership. People were trading these cars in on Datsun B 210s as fast as they could do the paperwork. My Dad was buying them as fast as he could and taking them back to his little country car lot and selling them. Too bad we did not know we could be very wealthy today if he would have simply kept each one he bought and sold.

I often wonder if the "muscle cars" of today will every be as valuable as these cars are?

Three more for now, about to go through and edit some more.

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Few more. I think I kinda got into a pattern with my editing yesterday...

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Nice shots at Englishtown. I'm there about 2-3 times a year.