Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Image:Heidfeld and Rosberg - 2008 Melb GP.jpg

2008 Australian Grand Prix

 * Reason:The first picture I've nominated for a while (yay for easter holidays!) and also the first I've nominated with my latest bit of kit - the Canon 400mm f/5.6L. Taking this shot was much more challenging than I expected - the moronic race organisers are killing the sport by giving general admission abysmal vantage points. The corner I had planned to photograph from (no. 3) is now fenced off an extra 30m from the track (needlessly I might add) and even has a huge piece of plastic covering the best viewing position!!! Ugh! What are they thinking? I can only guess they're trying to force people to pay for a grandstand! Anyway enough of the rant. I ended up after a considerable trek settling on corner 6. They had pulled a similar trick to corner 3 here (the track was probably 70m away) but at least there was no black plastic preventing a head on view! I had brought along a black permanent marker hoping to shade in the wire fence between me and the track (this improves the contrast loss when you shoot through it - I saw a pro doing it in 2004 :)) but they made another smaller fence so you were kept 2m back from the main fence. So that was another challenge. Anyway DESPITE all this I think the shot came out pretty well for a high speed sport (the 400mm blurred out the fence pretty well too) and shows an interesting bit of driving with Rosberg braking hard for the corner.

Summary of above (for the majority of people who can't be stuff reading the mass above!): good EV and excellent technical quality in a challenging subject
 * Articles this image appears in:Formula One, Albert Park, Victoria, Australian Grand Prix and 2008 Australian Grand Prix
 * Creator:Fir0002


 * Support as nominator Fir0002 09:07, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment. Looks like some anon editor has removed your image from the 2008 Australian Grand Prix article... Diliff  | (Talk)   (Contribs) 11:39, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Support-- Diniz (talk) 19:46, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Support-- Typ932 (talk) 20:07 20 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Support Only nit-pick I could make is it would also be nice to see more of the flag and official then it may have worked in safety car as well -- atropos235 ✄ (blah blah, my past) 20:51, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Support-- Chubbennaitor   (leave me a message!)  07:56, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Support - Linczone Talk / Watch  09:56, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Support A great photo which meets the criteria. --Nick Dowling (talk) 10:37, 22 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Support Excellent photo, very sharp. --Schcambo (talk) 12:26, 22 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Support interesting and sharp. Spencer  T♦C 17:05, 22 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Support Great photo. Blurred out what fence? ;) - oahiyeel talk 18:40, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
 * [[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|15px]] Support -- Laitche (talk) 19:13, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Abstain -- interesting shot, but what is this supposed to show ? Guroadrunner (talk) 00:56, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

MER-C 06:31, 27 March 2008 (UTC)