Lutterworth meet up (pics)

2Fchris · Post by **2Fchris** » Mon Aug 01, 2005 10:23 pm

Tonight in a desolated car park in the heart of Leicestershire

from left to right is james_uk with his retro mk3 G40, my GT on steffans (soon to be lowered) martin (coupedeluxe?)'s red GT with polished ATS rims and scott(lowGTI?)s mk5 GTI with carbon bits!

CoupeDeLux · Post by **CoupeDeLux** » Mon Aug 01, 2005 11:31 pm

nice one mate, the cars look great together! should do it again, maybe you guys could come to notts one night?

James_uk · Post by **James_uk** » Mon Aug 01, 2005 11:53 pm

Mint, photos look alright! Red and Black GTs will look awesome once lowered. Think someones trying to organise a meet on the Porka site for the Midlands, should be a good'n!

Tahrey1043 · Post by **Tahrey1043** » Tue Aug 02, 2005 12:24 am

lutterworth eh.... handy for that very nice arrow-straight single carriageway (but motorway width) bit of the A5...

2Fchris · Post by **2Fchris** » Tue Aug 02, 2005 8:42 am

Full size pics on request. They're a bit blurry but it's hard to get a steady picture when it's dark (need practice).

Yup, I'm up for a proper meet somewhere soon. Lutterworth/Notts? As Tahrey says... there's a few good palces to drive in Lutterworth and it's the easiest place in the world to find.

dino · Post by **dino** » Tue Aug 02, 2005 9:32 am

2Fchris wrote:Full size pics on request. They're a bit blurry but it's hard to get a steady picture when it's dark (need practice).

Yup, I'm up for a proper meet somewhere soon. Lutterworth/Notts? As Tahrey says... there's a few good palces to drive in Lutterworth and it's the easiest place in the world to find.

Its a tripod you need not practice

Its extremely hard to take non blurry pics without one at night with the flash off.

2Fchris · Post by **2Fchris** » Tue Aug 02, 2005 9:54 am

hmm, anyone know where to get a tripod for this?

jezmk4 · Post by **jezmk4** » Tue Aug 02, 2005 10:55 am

Any Tripod will do chriss they use a standard fitting

that cam takes good pics, i have the same one

ICEYPOLO · Post by **ICEYPOLO** » Tue Aug 02, 2005 7:49 pm

nice pics chris, i've yet to find out how to get them off my phone coz my bluetooth dont work on my PC!! Grrr!

would be good to get a couple in full size if you can send to pukkasl@aol.com

scott

Tahrey1043 · Post by **Tahrey1043** » Tue Aug 02, 2005 8:19 pm

A cam that can do a high ISO setting (sacrifice some image quality for increased brightness) and manual exposure control is a plus, and you may as well use the flash unless it would really ruin things (use slow synchro mode and a steady hand if its making eg plates wash out)

make it take a slightly dark picture if you have to, then brighten it on the PC later

as for a tripod, just go down to jessops or somewhere like that and get a simple mini-tripod with the bendy legs on (look like thin shower hoses). Very adaptable to anywhere you want to put it. Just screws into that mysterious hole on the bottom of the camera. Has fit all three of my digicams so far (lifesaver on the uni project - thousands of non-flash indoors macro focus pictures of leaves..), and a couple that aren't mine.
(not sure if it could effectively take the weight of a big Nikon like that though!)

alternatively rest it on nearby walls / posts / cars / sleeping drunks to make-do

(i have to remember to test a theory that using a lower resolution can improve your night-shot capabilities too - certainly helps when touching up naff night shots on the PC - trick i've picked up from working in medical imaging... can't get enough dynamic range on an isotope scan? halve the rez to get four times as many rays in each pixel..)

carmadaaron · Post by **carmadaaron** » Tue Aug 02, 2005 10:29 pm

very cool pix