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Sunday, July 25, 2010

SPOcom Adventure

So I head about this show called "SPOcom" at the Eibach Honda meet a while back. I didn't think much of it, but I started seeing what cars were going, it definitely caught my interest. My friend, Han from Intense Power had invited me out to go and of course I was all for it. Either way I love California and am always looking for an excuse to go.
It was held at the Long Beach Convention Center, an amazing place. We get there and just see tons of GTR's in the parking garage and I'm thinking to myself, this shows gotta be good. Me and Kyle get inside and first thing I notice is the lighting, and how great it was. I was planning to shoot bounce flash with a diffuser on my SB900. But looking at the results with my ridiculous 10 dollar sigma lens, it wasn't too great. The temperature was going NUTS, the background was just yellow and look horribly unprofessional. So I decided, hey might as well turn up the ISO, that's what i bought the camera for, and what do you know, worked out perfectly. The noise was quite acceptable for that lens seeing as its pretty much worthless, but with the 70-200, I was getting amazing results. I was kinda disappointed in myself for not getting next day shipping on my 50 1.4, It would have been a perfect lens for this event. I kinda laughed to myself for all the people shooting flash in such a giant building with no celling. I had peeked over the shoulders of a couple "pros" aka, people with stupid amount of gear, and their results were horrible, their backgrounds were dark looking and just doesn't look like what a 3000 dollar camera should be producing. But I really I wanted to see some photos with those really fancy Gary Fong LightSphere II. If you got a link post it!

But overall, I'm quite satisfied with the results. I love high ISO pictures, something about the coloring really strikes me. Well thanks for looking and I'll have more pics up next week!


Spocom 2010 (Alicia Whitten)

Spocom 2010

Spocom 2010


All the pics

http://www.flickr.com/photos/siritho/

And a big thanks too...

Stancenation for the feature!

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