FD Sonoma: Tilt-Shift Formula Drift
Formula Drift made its yearly stop in Sonoma, California last weekend. I’ve been looking forward to this event, simply because I live less than an hour away and I had a guaranteed bed to sleep in. Upon my arrival, I found that I was not on the list for media, since KP Race and Victor Moore were unable to attend, my credentials were void. So I made the best of my bad luck and decided that if I couldn’t get the really close action shots, I would take a few steps back and shoot a different perspective. The next morning, I drove down to Borrowed Lenses in San Carlos and rented a tilt shift lens. Over the past few months, my interest in these lenses has grown quite a bit and when I saw Mister Geoff Pitts from Thunder Drift taking photos with one for FD Las Vegas, I knew I had to try it. Fate truly couldn’t have presented me with a finer opportunity. :: Joe Ayala
Category: Uncategorized | Tags: Drift, Formula, Sonoma, TiltShift 25 comments »
January 20th, 2011 at 12:37 am
great work !
January 20th, 2011 at 1:20 am
that was fucken awesome i kept second guessing myself whether it was real or youd made a little diorama haha
January 20th, 2011 at 2:00 am
dude i got the worst sun burn of my life to see vaughn gitten hit people and then somehow win. worst fd event byfar.
January 20th, 2011 at 2:45 am
SUPERB…. not need to add anything more
January 20th, 2011 at 2:45 am
What is the model of lens you are using?
January 20th, 2011 at 3:21 am
lol.. this is a awesome vid! for some reason this reminds me of a toy race track.. lol
January 20th, 2011 at 3:34 am
This is a great video… Nice job…
January 20th, 2011 at 3:58 am
This is a great viedo…
January 20th, 2011 at 4:07 am
This what you get when there’s a bunch of street racing kid dickheads with too much money and time on their hands…
January 20th, 2011 at 5:05 am
OH MY FUCKIG GOD WHY DO THEY LOOK LIKE MATCHBOX CARS HOW DO YOU DO THIS RAHHGHGHHHH!!!!! FUCKING AMAZING!!!
January 20th, 2011 at 5:58 am
i understand the concept of tilt-shift.. but my eyes and brain just don’t't get how it works!!
January 20th, 2011 at 6:43 am
its like there toy lil bad ass hot wheel and the people are ants
January 20th, 2011 at 7:20 am
@nathanong87 true I miss spoke but cool anyway
January 20th, 2011 at 8:00 am
@NOTSODOTCALM , it’s not necessarily an effect, but an actual lens
January 20th, 2011 at 8:51 am
Song is Mad World covered by Gary Jules and Michael Andrews.
January 20th, 2011 at 9:03 am
damn this a trippy vid
January 20th, 2011 at 9:51 am
tilt shift is such a cool fx
January 20th, 2011 at 9:56 am
Amazing video, perfect song. It’s like watching a really cool video of a colony of ants or insects hard at work on the discovery channel, and at the end of the episode, you have a whole new appreciation for them (in this case, people would have a newfound appreciation for drifting). Again, great work guys.
January 20th, 2011 at 10:49 am
what is this beautiful music?
January 20th, 2011 at 11:12 am
Shot from extreme distance and using a filter that blurs detail (I forget the name, the same one blends colors too, that makes some detail vanish, is that a tilt lens?) ad a slow shutter/fps speed. Brilliant! Maybe more to it than what I describe, but you can do the same thing with what Ive described. I cant figure out how he racked the camera. I doubt he had a big rail setup…maybe?
January 20th, 2011 at 11:51 am
Prob not the best use of pc lenses but still very funny
January 20th, 2011 at 11:54 am
@revoirsimone Very cool vid, but I reacted the same exact way to the song.
January 20th, 2011 at 12:10 pm
I like it how the camera makes it look like the cars are like little toys. Very cool effect
January 20th, 2011 at 12:31 pm
@TangoR34 Das ist gerade ein neuer Modeschrei dass jedermanns überall. Es sieht “miniatur”-95 % der Zeit nicht aus und sieht gewöhnlich wie Scheiße aus. Wenn getan, richtig sieht es ok aus. Aber jeder denkt, dass sie verdammter Künstler eines Gottes an diesen Tagen sind, nachdem sie eine 500-Dollar-Kamera für Weihnachten bekommen.
January 20th, 2011 at 1:28 pm
@grimm862 explain.