WCBF09 July 19 - 26 - Corvallis Oregon

[SuperSLE]

Yeah, but maybe not everyone will be at the KOA all at the same time? But that would be a good idea maybe for Thursday night after the coast cruise, or Friday morning before heading to Woodburn.

[SuperSLE]

Hey, I also have a question about the dinner following Saturday racing. In years past the Pontiac Bonneville Club has joined with the GP club for a dinner together. Except last year I know that some people where trying to get out of there earlier to have time for the awards at the KOA that evening so the Inter-club dinner was put off and Pontiac Bonneville Club did their thing and GPs did theirs. Anyone know what the plans are this year? Paul? I see it says pizza to go. Does that mean no multi club dinner this year. I know the Portland club just wanted to know what was happening so they can plan accordingly as well.

[GXP_vince]

Yeah, the big shoot usually includes all th Bvilles, the PDX clubGP, the Seattle ClubGP and the Idaho Club3800. So if we stick them on one side or the other, or in the back or front, then they can quickly move out for just the Bonneville shots.

Or we can do our shot first, starting with B'villes, adding non-Bonne's from our club, then add the other groups. That may be less chaotic. (I really want to reduce the chaos of last year and make it go quicker and get a better photo.)

So maybe thinking of doing the shot of our group at the KOA or something? Maybe the big grassy area behind all the camping spots would be good?

Hello I shot a few pictures in my time. I did not set up that shot last year I only took the photos but I remember complaining to Bill (who set it up) about the shot too. By the way if you search I am sureyou can see the panoramic I did last year.

[Bugsi]

So maybe thinking of doing the shot of our group at the KOA or something? Maybe the big grassy area behind all the camping spots would be good?

I really like this plan. Maybe we can do it on Friday after test and tune, or maybe that would be too late at night. We'll find a day.

[Allmachtige]

I'm still planning on just showing up and sleeping where my head falls each night. I'm doing this total bohemian style.

[Bugsi]

I've slept in my Bonneville before. (But not at WCBF.)

[JMH1950]

I've slept in my Bonneville before. (But not at WCBF.)

It's actually quite comfortable isn't it. I stopped for a 4 hour nap on my way down to Corvallis in March and was amazed at the room when the seat is fully reclined.

[SuperSLE]

So maybe thinking of doing the shot of our group at the KOA or something? Maybe the big grassy area behind all the camping spots would be good?

I really like this plan. Maybe we can do it on Friday after test and tune, or maybe that would be too late at night. We'll find a day.

Again, not all of us might be there. Or maybe just me. I'm not driving all the way back down to Corvally after T&T Friday to turn around and get there early the next morning again. Call me cheap and lazy I guess. Just don't want to do it. I'll be there on Thursday night though after the cruise to the coast.

Any thoughts on dinner after Saturday racing.

[Greyhare]

I'll be bringing a telescope again this year. The dark skies in Corvallis are a pleasant change from the light polluted Bay Area, Ca.

It may be possible to organize a trip to Mary's peak one night. (Highest point in the valley.)

[Bugsi]

Again, not all of us might be there. (etc)

That's a good point, and this is the type of feedback we need. The nice thing about planning this ahead of time is that nothing is carved in stone, we have time to come up with a plan that works best for everyone.

I will work on a layout for arranging the cars that we know will be attending, and we'll leave some room to make modifications as needed.
Someone said we'll need some radio-equipped people to coordinate arranging the cars. That's a great idea. We'll do that. Everyone should be aware that we make generous use of GMRS radios at WCBF. (Anyone remember our traditional channel?)

I think a bullhorn would help too, but I don't have one!

[Bugsi]

I think a group panorama will work big-time. Just Google-Image-Searching for car panoramas, I haven't found anything remarkable, but just to give a very basic idea, there is this photo: http://www.jimbacus.net/blog/2004/images/panorama.jpg which isn't even intentionally posed as a group photo. If you imagine the cars arranged in a field in a large arc starting at the left, arcing away to the middle, and arcing back around to the right side, I think you can fit a huge number of vehicles in the photo. With an arc, the cars will all be similar distances from the camera, minimizing distortion, especially when mapped to Photoshop's cylindrical mapping, which would eliminate the stretched distortion that you see in the center of the sample image above.

I think this will be really good.

[SuperSLE]

Lets see. I dug up the photos from WCBF07:




Not as many cars, so wasn't such an issue. And the list above isn't all bonnevilles either. It also includes a lot of the Idaho Club guys that are bringing the GTPs among other things, so the Bonnie only pic might be easier, its the big group photo that is the issue.

This is last years:

[SuperSLE]

By the way I made my reservations at the KOA. We are staying in the Kamping Kabins. Too much of a pain for a tent with the chitlins. We will be there Tuesday night, then the fam is going on an extended coast cruise until Thursday when we will meet up with the coast cruisers in Newport and return back to the KOA for Thursday night.

[Bugsi]

And if my guess is right, those `07 photos are single photographs, there's no panorama stitching going on. If we do a wide arc and panorama stitching, I think it will be no problem to fit everyone in. We could do two rows of cars if we needed to, maybe for the combined groups photo if needed.

[SuperSLE]

Nope, not panorama. We could get a lot closer in if it is panorama and stitched together. The 07 is a nice shot, but so far away.

[myfirstbonnie]

For those getting KOA reservations, could you please post in the link for the reservations so I can update the photo:

viewtopic.php?f=33&t=9336

[2000Silverbullet]

Hey, I also have a question about the dinner following Saturday racing. In years past the Pontiac Bonneville Club has joined with the GP club for a dinner together. Except last year I know that some people where trying to get out of there earlier to have time for the awards at the KOA that evening so the Inter-club dinner was put off and Pontiac Bonneville Club did their thing and GPs did theirs. Anyone know what the plans are this year? Paul? I see it says pizza to go. Does that mean no multi club dinner this year. I know the Portland club just wanted to know what was happening so they can plan accordingly as well.

While it was great in the past to share dinner with the GP club and partake in their awards, there was little time left afterwards before it gets too dark to get back to the KOA and do ours.

My vote is to repeat last year and pre-order at least 10 pizza's.

We will be doing lunch with the GP group at the track...............or maybe having them for lunch.

I far prefer the 07 group shot arrangement over 08's.

[GXP_vince]

Here is a panorama I did last year.



Okay my take on this. Instead of doing a pano take about 8 photos sequentially in a horizontal fashion so put me in a car drive a few feet stop take a picture drive a few more feet stop take a picture and so on. I can also do a pano before or after.

[Bugsi]

Instead of doing a pano take about 8 photos sequentially in a horizontal fashion so put me in a car drive a few feet stop take a picture drive a few more feet stop take a picture and so on. I can also do a pano before or after.

Yes, we should do both. If you still have the Photoshop files, can you try one of the other mappings and see if it straightens out the image?

[GXP_vince]

Bro those pictures are on a harddrive in storage. I believe I tried it and it didn't work out well.