Rotterdam Racing: the photos

[kurtiejjj]

I had my photos developed and I thought let's share them. They're not very artistical but I'm happy I have at least some cars on photo at 250km/h. I had taken more but theý were sadly not OK.

My link: http://www.flickr.com/photos/7621215@N05/

And don't forget the tie-in story: http://www.f1technical.net/news/6749

BTW. Are some photos too well lit, I can't see my screen is rather dark?[/url]

[Carlos]

Hello kurtiejj- Watched your photos as a slide steam, wonderful to see the Elf Alpine F2 cars, MC featured Alpine in another thread. The one F2 Alpine with the body panel off allowed a nice look at the spaceframe and front suspension details.

Your photos seemed a little bright on my screen. I've read that light and it's manipulation is one of the keys of photography. Perhaps a little library research on digital photography. Whatever you do, keep posting pictures on the forum.

[kurtiejjj]

Hi carlos thanks for the reply. I have a book about photography it has been helpful. However the probplem lies with my computer screen, I have made these photos with an analog camera, then scanned them and edited them with photoshop and that's the problem really my screen has a tendency towards being dark all the time even at maximum brightness that's why I have brighten up photos to make them viewable for me. With the consequence that other like you find the photos to bright. I will watch on another computer if I can do anything about the brightness let's see.

BTW. the Alpine 2 are wonderfull cars, I got the photos out of a book by the german author Eddie Guba, he has done some other books which I'm sure are equally packed with technical photos.

I am trying to find one of these Alpine cars as a restoration project but they just seem they have disappeared even the biggest anoraks have no clue to where they went. Probaply they're in a dusty shed with a french farmer!

[dumrick]

That's right, the Elf-Martinis were brilliant cars. Too bad Martini didn't succeed in F1 (but that was a bit of a side project for them, as I read in an interview from Hugues de Chaunac).

I loved also the blueprint from the Toleman TG183B. I'm a huge fan from Rory Byrne's early cars (as you can tell from my avatar) and it allowed me to peek some details that in the photos I have are not clear - even in Flickr's low res.

[kurtiejjj]

Dumrick, I also have a blueprint for the TG280, designed by byrne, which is one of my favourites. still feel he was one of the first guys to grasp the idea that aerodynamics are very, very important.

Elf2 was built with tube-frame, I belive the martini cars were a little more sophisticated as they had monocoque. I must have a comparison somewhere between theese two from an old 'auto hebdo' magazine