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I like Oli Thordarson's C5 Z06 Corvette so much, I made an exact replica model of it going through Star Mazda corner at Buttonwillow Raceway Park. See? Even the headlights work! And... uh... a miniature hand holding the... um... flag...
Yeah... no... it's not what it seems. I've become enamored with tilt-shift photography, specifically the result with the hyper-narrow depth of field that makes a perfectly ordinary scene suddenly look like it's a miniature shot with a macro lens. But since I don't have the money for a tilt-shift lens, nor a camera that could accept said lens, I have been practicing the fakery of it with Photoshop. It's not perfect... or at least not unless you want to spend hours hand-altering masks... but it works quite well for photos like these where the distance is fairly linear and uninterrupted.
And of course this wouldn't be complete without mentioning Oli Thordarson. He's an excellent racer (usually coming in first in T1) and that's a hell of a car. One weekend he offered ride-alongs for the workers at lunch break and I got to ride along. It was an experience I won't forget: He rolled away from the pit wall and I thought, "Okay, it's got some pep..." and then halfway down pit lane he got on it for real and it really did take my breath away. Unbelievable how fast it can accelerate and especially how hard he can brake coming into corners. He'd let the tail step out just a little through a corner, then snap it back in line for the straight and bounce my (helmeted) head off the roll-cage.
While the car has been race-prepped, it's still a touring-class car. It has a roll cage, racing shells, 5-point harnesses and rolls on racing slicks, but the body still remains true to the street car. The dashboard is intact, and the message panel even complains about problems with the traction control (most likely because it's been forcibly disabled) while racing. However the drive train has definitely been pumped up. The car is powerful enough that when going over a crest on the track, the rear suspension would unload and the tires would lose grip for that second and you could hear the engine spin up a few hundred RPM before it would settle back down.
Check him and his C5 out at Spring Mountain: http://video.google.com/videoplay?d.....52593834410947 For those who love the small-block V8s, this car makes beautiful music.
Yeah... no... it's not what it seems. I've become enamored with tilt-shift photography, specifically the result with the hyper-narrow depth of field that makes a perfectly ordinary scene suddenly look like it's a miniature shot with a macro lens. But since I don't have the money for a tilt-shift lens, nor a camera that could accept said lens, I have been practicing the fakery of it with Photoshop. It's not perfect... or at least not unless you want to spend hours hand-altering masks... but it works quite well for photos like these where the distance is fairly linear and uninterrupted.
And of course this wouldn't be complete without mentioning Oli Thordarson. He's an excellent racer (usually coming in first in T1) and that's a hell of a car. One weekend he offered ride-alongs for the workers at lunch break and I got to ride along. It was an experience I won't forget: He rolled away from the pit wall and I thought, "Okay, it's got some pep..." and then halfway down pit lane he got on it for real and it really did take my breath away. Unbelievable how fast it can accelerate and especially how hard he can brake coming into corners. He'd let the tail step out just a little through a corner, then snap it back in line for the straight and bounce my (helmeted) head off the roll-cage.
While the car has been race-prepped, it's still a touring-class car. It has a roll cage, racing shells, 5-point harnesses and rolls on racing slicks, but the body still remains true to the street car. The dashboard is intact, and the message panel even complains about problems with the traction control (most likely because it's been forcibly disabled) while racing. However the drive train has definitely been pumped up. The car is powerful enough that when going over a crest on the track, the rear suspension would unload and the tires would lose grip for that second and you could hear the engine spin up a few hundred RPM before it would settle back down.
Check him and his C5 out at Spring Mountain: http://video.google.com/videoplay?d.....52593834410947 For those who love the small-block V8s, this car makes beautiful music.
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