Went to the last race of the American Le Mans Series in Laguna Seca. Been dying to try out my revised panning techniques (first one wasn't very good). The deal with the 300mm f2.8 didn't pan out so had to settle for my trusty sigma 70-300 (it did well until the light really started to fade out).

Bond's car in action (aston martin dbr9)

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After a little incident, a flat tire...

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Some Ferraris...

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The Porsches.....

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and the winning and all-conquering audi r10 (and it's a diesel)....

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I had a whole lot more keepers during this outing, waaaay more. My worst in this race was probably my best during my first attempt at panning at the US motogp event. I used the monopod like a stand to stabilize the cam or I hugged the monopod against my body. A faster lens would have helped at dusk but the majority of the race was in good light so it wasn't really very important. If this was the 12 hours of sebring or le mans, a faster lens would have been essential. I did have a good dose of lens envy looking at those loooooong white lenses on the canon. But nothing like the inadequacy I felt after seeing this.... :D

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Thanks for looking.

Whoa!!!!

Very nice Giovanni! They look like pictures taken out of a car magazine.

Any Audi's ? :)

Edit: Didn't notice that the last 2 were of the R10

Thanks.

I had a whole lot more keepers during this outing, waaaay more. My worst in this race was probably my best during my first attempt at panning at the US motogp event. I used the monopod like a stand to stabilize the cam or I hugged the monopod against my body. A faster lens would have helped at dusk but the majority of the race was in good light so it wasn't really very important. If this was the 12 hours of sebring or le mans, a faster lens would have been essential. I did have a good dose of lens envy looking at those loooooong white lenses on the canon. But nothing like the inadequacy I felt after seeing this.... :D

http://static.flickr.com/107/276405236_5a43963386.jpg

Thanks for looking.

LOL! Talk about Richie Rich!

LOL! Talk about Richie Rich!

LOL! I know. My eyes bugged out when I saw the little kid with such a nice big lens. It looked like he knew how to use it too. Maybe a pro in the making. Looked pinoy too.

WHOAAAAAAAAAAA!!!! Laguna Seca! What DA?!?! I can only see this frickin' place while playing Gran Turismo in my playstation... And the cars are awesome! Thanks for sharing Giovanni! :)

Great photos Giovanni! :) Great cars and good panning too! What were your settings?

Haha, Richie Rich indeed. :D

Great photos Giovanni! :) Great cars and good panning too! What were your settings?

Haha, Richie Rich indeed. :D

Thanks, bro. You should have gone. It was a blast. As for the settings, photos were shot on shutter priority at 1/125-1/160. F-values were anywhere from 20 during early afternoon to 8 or lower later in the afternoon.

Some more....

Corvette....

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A banged up bimmer....

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Another of the prototypes....

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The driver telling me to get out of his way....

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OMG OMG OMG :) Great pics! :) And amazing panning skill.

Poor aston though :(

Yeah, should have went to that instead. Oh okay, thanks for confirming 1/125-1/160, was not so sure about the shutter when it comes to race cars. Visited my Sta. Clara friends and I don't think it was as fun as that. Hehehe, I'm mean. :D

Yeah, should have went to that instead. Oh okay, thanks for confirming 1/125-1/160, was not so sure about the shutter when it comes to race cars. Visited my Sta. Clara friends and I don't think it was as fun as that. Hehehe, I'm mean. :D

You weren't that far from me. I work at Kaiser Santa Clara (for the time being).

Here's what happens when you don't have a fast lens and you try to pan anyway...

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Would somebody ship me fast lens free of charge? :D

We should EB sometime. PM na lang. :)

Yeah, night panning would be so cool.

Great stuff, Bro. Now show them the grid guyls.

Nice photos nonetheless Giovanni.

That's one lucky kid indeed! Damn nice equipment. He sure looks like he knows how to use it. His Jedi master is good I guess. hehe.

Wow great panning shots, Giovanni. :) I'm still a beginner with this kind of shooting.

By the way, the kid is really lucky! You should've asked for his name...maybe we'd see some of his photos in the future! :D

Great panning shots indeed! Thanks for sharing.

Wow! Those are great panning shots Giovanni! Thanks for sharing! :)

great job giovanni! congratulations!

amazing pics dude! astig :D

I want that freakin' Vette! :D

Thanks again for the comments. Greatly appreciated.

very nice gio!

Gio those are really great shots. im impressed with the panning. thats one thing i havent mastered yet. love the kid shot as well:)

great shots gio! i love them all...:) keep it up!

kawawa naman ang mga taga riyadh. nakablock kasi dito ang photos na makikita sa flickr.com. pero yung site accessible, partyly. :-)

Cool shots. I can feel the speed.