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Need for Speed
January 02, 2008These next few shots deal with transportation one way or another.
Jason Palmer/Times Record News
Two people are reflected in the chrome grill of the new 2007 Ford Edge crossover SUV. Despite the wintry weather, dozens of people came to see the latest in automobiles at the 2007 New Car Dealers Show hosted by the Wichita Falls New Car Dealers Association Saturday afternoon at MPEC.
Sometimes, I try to be really creative. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. This photo got mixed reviews from the folks at the paper, I guess they just didn't get it.
This was from the 2007 new car show, and i really wanted a unique image. Something other than just the normal people looking at cars shot. I couldn't help but notice the new chrome panel grill on the Ford Edge (a look that Ford is going with on many of their cars at the moment).
The light bulb went on and I realized that I could probably get a reflection of people walking past and/or looking at the new vehicle. All I had to do was stand in front of the car and wait for someone to walk past. It took about 15 minutes... but I made it work.
A pack of riders make their way over the Emanual Davis Overpass with the Wichita Falls downtown skyline in the background as they near the finish line of the Hotter'N Hell 100 Saturday, August 25, 2007. (AP Photo/Jason Palmer/Wichita Falls Times Record News)
As usual, the HH100 is one of those events that the Associated Press always asks us to send in a few photos from every year.
It had been a couple of years since there was a good downtown shot taken (other than the start line... which doesn't really show a good angle of the skyline) and sent in to the AP. This year, I decided to rectify that situation... not that we have the most impressive skyline in the world or anything. But I thought it would be nice to have a W.Falls city shot to go along with the countless sprawling countryside shots that we always seem to have.
It would have been nice to be in position for when a huge pack of the pro riders or the really good groups crossing the bridge, but that just wasn't going to work out for me and the route i was shooting all day.
Jason Palmer/Times Record News
A gas-powered radio controlled car screams around a corner at River City Raceway off Hwy. 287 and Hammon Road on Quincy Road.
Every now and then I get one of those great assignments that I genuinely have a blast shooting. It doesn't happen every day, but it certainly helps boost my moral at the paper. I've always been a RC car fan, I had a nice electric racer when I was a kid.
These are the really super fast gas powered ones... and I was like a kid in a candy store. Getting shots of these things was going to be easy... or so I thought. I soon realized how hard it was to keep these things in the frame as I was shooting.
They weren't exactly going in a perfectly straight line... and I was having a lot of trouble keeping up with them on the straightaways that ran perpendicular to where I was standing. I'm telling you folks, these things were quick.
I knew I wanted to show just how fast they were... and an easy way of doing that is to slow the shutter speed down and pan with the car. That will hopefully blur the background giving the sense of motion. When it works it works very well..... but it wasn't easy getting it to work.
The sun peeked out at the right time and gave me a bit of a shadow across the track, allowing me to shoot the car a bit loose and show more of the scene as I saw it.
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Awesome photos. Love the "sky line" behind the bikers. Would like to see more along those lines.
