2025 Malcolm Wilson Rally - The Lost Files
The 2025 Malcolm Wilson Rally Lost Files
2034 images of the event available here
Last week, I wrote my first journal entry. It was about the 2025 Malcolm Wilson Rally (you can read it here). In the entry, I mentioned how the remote camera didn't fire, probably down to the distance I was away from it and also the fact that the remote camera was fairly burrowed...
It turns out I was wrong.
Now, what I typically do immediately after I finish shooting is pick up the remote camera and view the last image taken with it to make sure it has fired. This isn't the best practice as it only shows the last image which I could have taken when I was a lot closer to the camera. Because of this, I also skip back 10 images at a time, meaning I can check if it's been firing fairly consistently.
None of these steps were carried out, in fact I didn't even bother to pack my camera gear away, I just carried it all down the hill and put it straight in the car, tripod and lenses still attached.
When I got back home and ingested the cards, I just assumed that all the cards had been ingested.
The reason the steps had been missed was because was in a rush. The same evening I had a 1500 mile drive ahead of me. I was driving out to shoot round 1 of the Portugal DH Cup, an international cycling event (You can read about how that went here). It was only on the Thursday when I got my cameras out to get ready for shooting Friday's track walk that I found the images on a card.
Anyway, a quick ingest later and an extra 354 photos were ready to be edited. As it was a remote, the ISO was set to AUTO and compensated appropriately. Editing was quick as no cropping was required, just mask for the sky to bring the highlights down and add a bit of contrast. It wasn't quite as aggressive of a corner as i thought it would be, as such, not much rocks been flung around.
Note to self, spend the extra minutes to stick to best practices, regardless of how much of a hurry you're in.
2034 images of the event available here