It’s a little over a year since we decided to revamp #IAMTHESPEEDHUNTER into your Speedhunters and who would have thought beforehand what would come from it. We’ve regularly been left speechless by your submissions and we’re often astounded by how quickly it continues to evolve. Thankfully, it shows no signs of slowing down and over the winter months here in the northern hemisphere, we plan on investing even more time and love into it to help it grow further. Before we kick off this week’s general round-up, we just want to say thank you for your love and support. You guys rock. We appear to have got some race fuel in our eyes, so let’s get going…
(Above) Roger Egea takes pride of place with this atmospheric panning shot of a Porsche 911 navigating a ribbon of tarmac amongst the autumnal trees. By taking a chance with a slow shutter speed, he was rewarded with a great image.
Despite popular belief, you don’t need to pan every motorsport shot. You don’t even need a press pass as Alex proves here by shooting over the shoulder of another photographer to create this interesting image.
Again, instead of trying to zoom past the corner workers, Ciaran has integrated them into the shot and created a shot with human interest.
By choosing his spot carefully, Gareth gave himself a great vantage point of the incoming cars at a recent rally event. The surroundings frame the car quite nicely whilst his depth of field is well controlled.
Speaking of natural frames, it doesn’t get much better than this. Igor lived in Hong Kong for several months and spent lots of his spare time searching out exotic and interesting cars.
This is one of the strongest black and white images I can remember being submitted in quite some time and that’s saying something. Jose’s control over light and shadow is just remarkable here.
Captured on a fresh morning at Kirkistown Circuit in Northern Ireland, Kevin has caught that moment I’m sure most of us are familiar with. You can almost smell the petrol in the air.
Some choose to shoot with zoom lenses, others with fisheyes. The results can be just as dramatic either way.
Onwards we march
This is a great chase shot by Lauri with solid processing too. From idea to execution, this a pretty good example of knowing what you want beforehand.
I quite like this cut-off portrait Lisandro sent us in. It’s always a good idea to experiment with different compositions and framing until you create something you like. You don’t need to show the whole picture all the time.
If you’re going to pan, do it right, like Peter. Tack sharp with subtle colour processing.
This a great car portrait by Ricky. Depth of field and lighting are absolutely on-point. It helps when the subject looks this good too…
If you read #IAMTHESPEEDHUNTER regularly, you will know that I’m an advocate of introducing the human element into images as often as possible.
Sometimes there just isn’t enough time to source the right location and you just have to shoot what’s in front of you. On paper at least, it shouldn’t work – car parked on grass, busy background etc. but somehow it just does. A moment in time captured perfectly.
Finally this week, proof that shooting FWD cars can be just as fun as RWD ones. This shot doesn’t come about by accident but by studying the course and waiting for the moment to happen. To capture a sharp panning shot whilst the car is rising and falling back onto two wheels is more difficult than you imagine.
Don’t forget we still have two themes running at the moment which are due to end shortly: the turbo theme and the photo guide theme. Be sure to check them out and get your submissions in on time…
Paddy McGrath
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About #IAMTHESPEEDHUNTER
We created #IAMTHESPEEDHUNTER to allow you the opportunity to share your skills and car culture experiences from around the globe with the rest of the Speedhunters audience.
How do you get involved? It’s simple…
Flickr - Join our #IAMTHESPEEDHUNTER Flickr Group and share your favourite photos with us and others.
Instagram – Follow us on Instagram at @TheSpeedhunters and tag your own car culture images with #IAMTHESPEEDHUNTER
Twitter – Follow us on Twitter at @SPEEDHUNTERS and share your tweets with the #IAMTHESPEEDHUNTER hashtag.
Tumblr – Visit our Tumblr page to view the latest #IAMTHESPEEDHUNTER tagged images.
E-Mail – If you’ve been to a cool event and captured some amazing images, be sure to e-mail them to us on iamthespeedhunter@speedhunters.com and tell us a little bit about the event. The images need to be a minimum of 800×533 pixels.
Have you submitted already but yet been featured? Here are some tips to help you…
DO – Tell us your name!
DO – Submit your best work, regardless of when it was taken
DO – Take your time shooting and consider each detail
DO – Try to submit each image no larger than 1000PX wide
DON’T – Put a huge watermark on it. We’ll make sure you’re credited
DON’T – Send us huge image files that kill our e-mail system
DON’T – Send us scary ZIP or RAR files