VIC GOR revisited (Great ocean road rules) 27-11-2011

brilliant photos, looks like a great day, ill see how things are going but i would love to go next year (12+ hour drive each way)

 

looks like a great time pity i live nsw were nothing happens
getting together on a run is what it;s all about.,
life is short times like this are so important.
you guys rock

 

shattered I missed this, looks like a fantastic day guys!

 

You forgot me Dean

But no one on the forum has seen my new wheel set up well yet

 

Hey Everyone,

Finally got around to picking out some photos to frame and post up.

The Bendigo convoy meet point


The Bendigo crew (with one behind the camera taking this shot )



Some of Renzed's new engine bling


On the way to meet the Melbourne Zedders


Sturfarny is all thumbs up for the day



Got the highway to ourselves



The official start of what the cruise is all about








Not the photo I was going for and Z out of focus but still found it an interesting shot



A succession of 3 shots with the focal point moving up the line of Zs




Thought a shot of the surf wouldn't be out of place for the cruise location


Pretty sure this guy wasn't part of the cruise but he was snapping shots of every Z rolling by, so thought I'd 'snap' back


Random Porsche parked at the end of the street we all parked along...wasn't the best framed shot, Kra4sey gave some good advice on how to make her look good...crop time




Some feature shots of the Dark Jedi mobile






This shot seems very familiar...I think someone's got a favourite parking spot in Apollo Bay


Some shots of the GOR crew...Badzx & son


TQE-756 & Dribbles


Tektrader & BigCol


Not sure of your names sorry as didn't get a chance to properly meet you, but looks like you all had a great time


Payback time! ...told ya I had something tucked away Graham


MickW...looking either very confused or tired of getting his photo taken LOL


Braiden (not sure of forum name sorry) and mate...all set for the return trip


Tekky feature shots



BigCol catching onto what I was about LOL...he moved too quick and so missed out on the E but I think the effect worked



You don't know, the power of the engine bling...well, Jedi does






There's always a Z being worked in the world somewhere at any given time



Most of the GOR crew before some split ways on the way back into Geelong



Our adlib photo shoot location, thanks to Kingy that we had a shoot at all with his quick thinking...as you can see, council workers in the background going "wtf?" LOL




Beautiful shot Mark






Last shot of Jedi cruising off down the highway as we head for home...another awesome GOR cruise done and dusted.


Till next time :br:

Cheers,

Craig

 

Wow.

All awesome shots there Craig . Brilliant!! There's a big difference to just pointing a camera and shooting compared to actually taking the time and get the perfect shot. And not to mention the post photo touch ups. Great work ...

 

Being organiser / driver ..... did'nt take to many photos but I did throw the camera to Andrew .... his shots.....


Craig snapped Andrew, Andrew snapped Craig (was Andrew on the hill)




My favourite parking spot :rofl:

 

few more at the last stop....












Been playing with some of the pics of BADZX.....

 

Absolutely fantastic photos Craig. I am very impressed with your work. I feel my photos are a bit plain after seeing yours. You have found the perfect angles for every shot and I hope I can use similar techniques in the future to create the same style photograph as you have.

keep up the good work.

 

Ah, so it was your son Kingy 'snapping' away...now that I look closer I can see the resemblance to the photo of you both sitting at the bench eating lunch...upon first inspection, without getting to close to the monitor I thought it was some random asian that just happened to be there with his DSLR as we all drove past LOL

Thanks guys for the compliments, I do try to get interesting shots and it seems to work most times...beware though that this was a selection of 61 photos out of 534 shots taken for the day...the beauty of a DSLR over the old film SLRs A lot of them were completely useless photos when trying to get some decent ones while driving along the GOR, even some when stationary weren't the best..but every shot taken is experience going into the next shot I also get good bits of advice from Kr4usey whenever we go out shooting together which really helps improve my shots...so my advice is, if you want to improve your own photography - make friends with a pro photographer

And yeah Kingy....here's the photo I took from the 2008 GOR cruise ...taken with my then 4MP Olympus C770 (now retired since we got the Canon 450D)



2011 GOR cruise




Cheers,

Craig

 

All amazing shots there!

How keen would you be to take some shots of my zed after the roof wing goes on?

 

i think the photos on grass make your car look deceptively low bracket, its low but the grass ones make it look like is resting on teh ground, the road pic looks much more normal

 

Hey Bracket,

I would love to take a few shots for you but I live in Bendigo, about 1.5 hours from Calder Park so I can't exactly zip around for a photo shoot

I would highly recommend you contact KR4USY (who lives in Melbourne, was on this GOR cruise ) if you truly want some pro photographs of your Z to keep and cherish into the future. Checkout his website to see the kind of shots he can pull off and what kind of services he offers. You'll even see my old R32 GTR on there in the automotive section of the portfolio area

http://www.andrewkrause.com.au/

Cheers,

Craig

 

Thanks mate, will send a PM his way soonish

Awesome shots again btw mate, probably gonna steal a photo of yours as my sig

 

Thanks and no worries...I'll see if I have any other decent photos of your Z from the cruise shots and pop em up as well if I do. Shoot me a PM with the link of the photo your going to use and I can send you the full res. one if you want?

I must say, you've got a very photogenic Z :thumbup:

Cheers,

Craig

 

spewin I missed it, looks like a great day.

Zed needs lifters so I aint got my ride at the moment.

 

Finally got around to adding a few of the pics taken by my passenger. Great day!

 

Hey Liam,

Tell your mate he takes great photos, really like some of the action shots...this is my favourite, got real attitude to it



If it had a little more space to show the Z's nose with some empty space in front of it and wasn't taken from behind a window (speckles can be removed in photoshop though with a bit of work) so it was a bit of a cleaner image, it would be puuurrrfect! I'll be adding this shot to my repertoire

Oh and I got your PM, I'll try to shoot through the image tonight.

Cheers,

Craig

 

Thanks for the pics Craig

The one you picked out was his fav as well, even with the same flaws you mentioned. My fav is of Graham behind us looking pissed off that he can't overtake. haha

 

Ha ha, yeah if I look closely it does appear as if he's got a frown showing through the windshield lol....turn that frown, upside down

Cheers,

Craig