Well, it was related to shooting photos, too. :) In our region, for the
year-end trophy, everyone who earned one gets a mounted photo of him/her in
the car with appropriate plaques. John K & I did this for too many years,
and you just don't know what hassles we went through to make sure the photo
was with the right person in the driver's seat, and then, we'd make
mistakes...based on being able to read the numbers OR if the correct numbers
were showing. The result is always an unhappy competitor who just doesn't
have a clue.
Also, for Pylon, we like to print as many pictures as we can. There are
some local nifty cars running, very fast, but a small group were really
casual about their numbers. Finally, I went up to one of them and told him
we had this really terrific photo of the car, but couldn't print it because
we couldn't figure out who was driving.
An amazing thing happened, good number appeared at the very next event.
:) :)
So sometimes you have to appeal to the driver's ego. :)
--Pat Kelly
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>From: "Rocky Entriken" <rocky@tri.net>
>To: "David W. James" <vnend@adelphia.net>, "Pat Kelly" <lollipop487@attbi.com>
>Cc: "National Autocross Mailing List" <autox@autox.team.net>
>Subject: Re: Vehicle Identification Proposal
>Date: Tue, Apr 29, 2003, 1:22 PM
>
>> On Saturday, April 26, 2003, at 12:09 PM, Pat Kelly wrote:
>> > An interesting discussion, esp about red & black. If one is
>> > changing
>> > photos from color to black and white, often red turns into black,
>> > unless it
>> > is a lighter shaded red. I think shades/contrast of colors has a lot
>> > to do
>> > with their readability, light & dark.
>>
>> That should depend on how you do it; if you shoot with a red/orange
>> filter then the red should show up very light; if you shoot with a blue
>> or green filter it will turn out darker, if not completely black. Then
>> there are the electronic versions of the same conversion (if your
>> graphics program allows it, take a look at the individual channels; the
>> difference between the red/blue/green channels can be striking,
>> depending on the subject and the colors involved.
>
> Unless you are wearing glasses with those filters, the filter suggestion is
> irrelevant when discussing color contrast as seen by a timer or course
> worker. Pat's photo example is an example of how colors work, not on how to
> shoot pictures.
>
> --Rocky
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