nice pictures

Awesome!!! Thanks for posting.

Dude you've got some mad picture taking skills. Wish i was there ............

nice pics, what kinda camera?

I used several different cameras and lenses this weekend, all Canon.

nice pics!

Nice pics, thanks for sharing.

Nice pics thanxs for sharing, nice too what is going on out there when some of us are grounded in town. The weather seems pretty cold this weekend but looks pretty nice out there from your pics..
Thanxsagain for the post

Great Pics...thanks for posting them! I sure wish I was there!!!

Hey AL..
that B&W one is effin off the hook awesome man.. Great job as always..

GREAT pics!!

The weather was great, freezing cold on Friday night but the daytime was awesome and Saturday night wasn't as cold.

Thanks Chum, I been practicing.

Nice pics, anymore of the drags on saturday and sunday evening?

does anyone know any info about the kid that got killed at the drags on friday?

Quick question. When you shoot B&W, do you change to B&W in the camera, or do you convert them after you download?

Also wondering if you have ever shot with any of the 16-28mm range lenses? Before I went digi with my Rebel XTI, I was shooting 35mm and loved my 28-80 lens. I did a lot of shooting at 28. I am really wanting a lens for my XTI that can get down to a true 28 which is around 16mm for the XTI. Just curious if the 16 on the digi starts givin a fisheye or if it is still fairly straight.

awsome pics. it was pretty crazy at the drags this time. and the buggy ruts were horrible all over

How about the guy on the red and white banshee that crashed at the end of the drags on sunday? crashed right in front of me as i was racing him. I was teh first one to him, but luckily i didnt have to do anything as the rangers were there within seconds, props to them.

I got a lot more on Saturday, but we left early Sunday morning.

I don't know anything, we showed up late Friday night.

That's a good question.

Nice pix as usual Al.

Anyone know if they caught the idiot on Sunday night with the black 4 seater that blasted down & out of the drags when the cops all swarmed in?

I don't think they were after him, but he sure didn't want to be near them when they rolled in. Looked like one cop actually drew his pistol.

So.....does that mean the B&W is your trade secret or you don't know the answer to the question regarding the lens? I'm just curious if you do change the color after taking the pic if you notice any difference in quality? I haven't done any color changing afterwards, If I think I might want B&W, or am not sure which way I'm going to want it, I shoot the frame both ways with the camera.

All of my cameras will shoot B&W..

And a few others..

Photoshop will do it too..

Yeah, I know how to switch my camera over, and I have Photochop. I just have never used Photochop to convert it. I have heard that converting the image instead of shooting it in B&W will decrease quality, just wondering if anyone has noticed a difference in the two methods.

the crash on friday at the drags was a 13 year old boy cut in front of a rail at the end of the drags and they hit. the kid ended up dying on the scene. there is a thread about it in the general chat forum. sad story.

Less talking more pics

I guess I'm tired of giving out tips while no one buys my great pics. Find your own lenses, and figure out your own processes.

WOOO dude.... Never intended to offend. Didn't even know you sold your desert pics. What's your website? I don't know any of the people or rails in the pics on this thread, but would be interested in seeing the rest of your work. I have more photos framed on my walls than sketches, drawings, or paintings because that's what I like. I am always looking for more. My mom and dad have a framing business so I usually get good deals on frames cuz they use my stuff to try new frames, mats, etc and use them for demos. Let me know if you have a site that I can browse, you do awesome work!

Nice job alex.

Was busy myself at glamis drags and a lil at the olds jump(got 21 pics of the car that rolled on sunday)

In general, it is always best to do any conversions outside the camera. In camera conversions are simply taken what you would normally get and processing it with a preset function that is often "destructive" in one way or another. Take the pic in standard mode with raw or highest res format then do your own thing with it with whatever software afterwards so you can control what you get/want.

Now that's what I'm talking about. Great answer right there.

Awesome pics as always bigal

wow....those are some of the best quality pictures I have ever seen on this site. What is your background? How did you learn to do that? Any good books you could recommend? I have a Nikon D70 and I'm pretty good at photoshop but those pics are amazing!!

Whaaa!!! nobody ever buys my pictures. I hope you kidding and not the complete Ahole your post makes you out to be.

Easy guy!!! Bigal is a really good guy who had a booth setup at Vendors. He always posts great pics of everybody running the drags for free. Can you blame him for wanting to make some scratch off his time and equipment invested on the bigger pics??

Seriously! Big Al is one of the coolest mofo's out there - not to mention takes some bad azz pix as well!!! hrdtail should seriously stfu since it is the one sounding like the aHole here!

Rock on Alex - you da man brudda!!!

Ya, I probably shouldn't have wrote that. Sometimes I just say what's on my mind without thinking and it makes me look like a jerk.

Thanks for sticking up for me guys, that means a lot to me.

His camera equipment aint cheap.Some just dont realize the maintainance that might be required yearly on the lenses and camera bodies if they have to be cleaned out.can add up quickly with multiple stuff while trying to provide a service for people then post samples only to have people click and save the pic vs buying a copy(even thought the res is low vs an original which will look even better) while Al is trying to make a few extra bucks.

I only met alex once on the summer night rides and i learned a couple tips from him that have helped me out also and like said he is a cool dude.

Thanks for the info twvette. To you others thanks for postin up that bigal is a good guy, I have to say i got a pretty bad impression from his post. I don't make it out to Glamis very often so I had no idea he ever had a booth setup on Vendor row. Next time I'm out there, I hope I can find him cuz it'd be really awesome to score some pics of me cruisin in the sand, and I'd definitely be willin to pay for something like that.

bigal - Can you print on real photo paper or do you send them out? I have some stuff that I need to get printed, and if you have the ability, I'd rather support a fellow GD'r than go to some store I don't know.

BigAl, those pics ROCK!!! You are awesome!

I don't know if Alex still does his booth out there or not, but he had BIG pix, super clean in 8X10's and even bigger if I remember correctly.

My post had nothing to with how great of guy he is, how wonderful his pictures are, how expensive his lenses are, or how many old women he walks across the street. The fact of the matter is he totally slammed a respectful person who was asking for some advice. I have been to his booth, didn't know that was him until this thread, but I'm glad I know now so I can keep on walking. The guy even apologized and BIGAL still went after him........yeah great guy, you wonder why nobody buys your stuff, its a direction reflection or your personality.