We are getting lots of calls and emails about "the Poster". .. The picture of all the cars gathered on the front straight last Friday evening.
We understand the excitement, especially after we showed a one-off print at the party.
Let me post an update on what is happening.
Mrs Frog and I drove almost straight through from RA to Aiken South Carolina, arriving Monday evening. We have a dear friend in Aiken that is a 20 year experienced race photog and Photoshop pro (10 years with Ferrari, etc). OBTW, another FF competitor has already volunteered his print facility. Monday night and into Tuesday we have been working with a few hundred images of that shoot to find the best ones. Then it's into Photoshop to dress up and add other images, etc., etc. There has been lots of coordination between artists and the print facility. Soon all this artwork will be in a format that can be shipped to the printer. Next come draft/preview runs. Inspection. Then a printing. The plan is to print it on a high quality stock.
I've seen some early proofs and can say it should be an impressive final product.
After printing, we have to get them shipped to a facility for packaging and shipping them to you. We are hoping to maybe be doing first test print by Friday. If all is well, we could be ready to start shipping by sometime next week.
In the meantime we have to ramp up to be able to take orders and ship a large number of posters.
Hopefully by friday we will have all the gears lined up, and be able to post here the details for placing orders, etc.
Obviously, the posters will be available by themselves, but we are exploring whether framed prints can be offered also.
Enough about the big group poster.
During the course of 4 days we took maybe 8,000 to 9,000 shots. Saturday we had 7 different photo sessions with groups of cars on the skidpad. (Crossles, Lolas, Pipers, Early English, Swifts, North American makes, One-offs, etc.) And there are grid pictures, paddock pictures, on-track pictures, posed pictures, party pictures, yadda, yadda, yadda of about 250 entries. Whew! Daunting.
Once we get the group poster project rolling, we'll try to get the "group shots by marque" ready to go.
Stay tuned...