The Monterey Peninsula is one of the most beautiful places in California and home to the Weathertech Laguna Seca race track, which is a great place to watch a race. If you enjoy taking pictures of race cars, access at this stunning track is perfect. You can walk all around and in some places get fairly close, unfettered views of the action. And the famous Corkscrew is just a stunning place to experience auto racing.
The GTD class was won by Alvaro Parente and Katherine Legge bringing her closer to a potential Championship this season. And the legendary Bobby Rahal, the R in Team RLL, saw his team win their second consecutive Championship race in the number 25 BMW driven by Connor De Phillippi and Alexander Sims.
Acura NSX-GT3 driven by Katherine Legge and Alvaro Parente – WINNER GTD Class
Team RLL BMW M8 GTE driven by Connor De Phillippi and Alexander Sims WINNER GTLM class
Mazda RT24 driven by Oliver Jarvis and Tristen Nunez
Mercedes s-AMG GT4 driven by Bryce Ward and Christian Hohendel
JDC-Miller Motorsports Oreca LMP2 overtakes the Ferrari 499 GT3 from Scuderia Corsa
Whelan Engineering Racing 31 driven by Felipe Nasr and Eric Curran
Mazda RT24 driven by Oliver Jarvis and Tristen Nunez
Acura Prototype driven by Helio Castroneves and Ricky Taylor
Ford Mustang GT4 driven by Alan Brynjolfsson and Trent Hindman
Honor Guard
Oreca 07 driven by Chris Miller and Stephen Simpson
Mini JCW driven by Mark Pombo and Colin Mullan
Oreca LMP2 driven by Sebastian Saavedra and Gustavo Yacamán
Acura Prototype driven by Helio Castroneves and Ricky Taylor
Lamborghini Girl with Umbrella
Mini JCW driven by Mat Pombo and Mike LaMarra
Mercedes-AMG GT4 driven by Hugh Plumb and Owen Trinkler
Aston Martin Vantage driven by Rob Ecklin Jr and Brandon Kidd
Mercedes-AMG GT3 driven by Ben Keating and Jeroen Bleekmolen – 2nd place GTD class
Oreca 07 driven by Chris Miller and Stephen Simpson
JDC-Miller Motorsport #85 driven by Simon Trummer and Robert Alon
Mazda RT24 driven by Jonathon Bomarito and Harry Tinknell
Aston Martin Vantage driven by Gary Ferrera and Kris Wilson
Mazda RT24 driven by Oliver Jarvis and Tristen Nunez
Nissan DPi driven by Johannes van Overbeek and Pipo Derani
Mazda RT24 driven by Jonathon Bomarito and Harry Tinknell
Chevroley Corvette C7.R driven by Jan Magnussen and Antonio García
How unique and fantastic our American celebration of Independence is! Each year we get together with friends and family, picnic, barbecue, drink beer, listen to music and… of course watch and blow off fireworks.
After more than 10 years of living life as a reformed smoker, I wanted to look into what made it such a draw for me. I wanted to explore what made me love it so that in the face of a true health risk I would continue to do it. Smoke Free is a double entendre shot entirely at 240 frames per second, and includes portraits of the people I interviewed.
It’s a terrible camera. The lens is tiny, the resolution stinks, you have no creative control over shutter speed, sensitivity, aperture, and it’s ergonomically a nightmare, not to mention, sometimes it’s a really bad phone too. But it’s always there. I’ve always got it handy when I see something I would really like to photograph and don’t have my DSLR on hand. As a result, I have a lot of photos taken with my iPhone that I wished I had a better camera for. But having taken so many photos with it, I’ve discovered something about the iCamera, or maybe I’ve discovered something about myself, because I’ve started to like the images I can create with it. Continue reading “Using the iPhone as a camera”
[dc]H[/dc]is self proclamation “I’m kind of famous at Burning Man”, I’ve learned was accurate as news of his untimely death spread like wildfire through that community. I knew John Pedone as a colleague and fellow technician in the film lighting industry, and for a short time a decade ago, as a room mate. I only recently became aware of his impact on the legendary annual gathering of artists and misfits in the desert, as he proudly showed me photos of the camp he co-founded there years ago. His status at Burning Man became apparent to me posthumously as I began hearing about his motorcycle accident from some of the unlikeliest sources–all attendees at one time or another at the desert festival. That he was well-known amongst a large group of creatives in southern California doesn’t surprise me as he was one of the liveliest people I have known: well-traveled, adventurous, artistic, friendly and energetic. He created colorful light shows for raves and live performances, insanely huge structures for Burning Man, jumped from airplanes and scaled rock walls.
John and I worked together on more than a few projects over the past decade, the last, and probably coolest one being a 360° video for a new album by Gun’s ‘N Roses guitarist, Slash.
John lived life at full speed and last Friday he was remembered by a gathering of friends and family who came to say goodbye in a way that I’m certain he would have truly appreciated.
[dc]T[/dc]hanks to my affiliation with IATSE Local 600, Cinematographers Guild, I had an opportunity recently to attend a class given by ARRI to learn more about their new Alexa camera series and though I have shot with one once already, I did learn some new and interesting facts about what is quickly becoming one of my favorite camera systems.
[dc]I[/dc]n the on-going battle between Nikon and Canon owners as to which camera is better, one feature that I, a devoted Canon owner, have lamented is Nikon’s ability to bracket to 5 images as opposed to Canon’s 3, which becomes a real drawback when making High Dynamic Range (HDR) images. But now there is a new iPhone/iPad app that allows me to extend the number of images captured for HDR to as many as 20, and I have only begun to experiment with it. Continue reading “DSLR.Bot and Venice HDR Images”
