Racing in the Dez

[DDan]

We had a great weekend. The weather was good and racing went well. Our car was the first finisher overall.
http://DDan.smugmug.com/photos/130476768-M.jpg

The truck was the first truck to finish and was somewhere in the top 5 overall.

http://DDan.smugmug.com/photos/130473657-M.jpg

Here some shots of a few competitors.

http://DDan.smugmug.com/photos/130484639-M.jpg

http://DDan.smugmug.com/photos/130485262-M.jpg

All of these shots are straight from the camera using faithful jpeg. C&C welcome.

[AmpedPhoto]

We had a great weekend. The weather was good and racing went well. Our car was the first finisher overall.
http://DDan.smugmug.com/photos/130476768-M.jpg

The truck was the first truck to finish and was somewhere in the top 5 overall.

http://DDan.smugmug.com/photos/130473657-M.jpg

Here some shots of a few competitors.

http://DDan.smugmug.com/photos/130484639-M.jpg

http://DDan.smugmug.com/photos/130485262-M.jpg

All of these shots are straight from the camera using faithful jpeg. C&C welcome.



Was that at plaster city? Shoots look ok, I would crop in a little more. What lens and camera where you using? BUt my fav picture is the first one. great shot

[DDan]

Was that at plaster city? Shoots look ok, I would crop in a little more. What lens and camera where you using? BUt my fav picture is the first one. great shot

Thanks. Yes. That was the Plaster City race. I hate it when I cut off a part of the car so I frame a little large and figure I can fix it in PP. Good advice though. My buddy shoots a little tighter and his looked good right out of the camera. This was my XTi with 70-200L. This was not for those who are worried about dust. It was thick at times and the only saving grace was the morning breeze. My camera and lens was still covered with dust.

[AmpedPhoto]

yeah photographing off road racings does that, What I do is fill a small dish with water and 2 spritz of 409. Then use a tooth brush to clean my gear. Don't soak the brush just dip and kinda remove some of the water and go at it. Takes a while but it gets the gear clean. Great shots just keep shooting, next project for yourself is to start panning

[DDan]

yeah photographing off road racings does that, What I do is fill a small dish with water and 2 spritz of 409. Then use a tooth brush to clean my gear. Don't soak the brush just dip and kinda remove some of the water and go at it. Takes a while but it gets the gear clean. Great shots just keep shooting, next project for yourself is to start panning

Thanks for the tips Mike. I tried panning a couple of weeks ago and missed a bunch due to the "up and down" action. The "side to side" was not too bad. I'll work on it some more.

[AmpedPhoto]

yeah this sport is a PITA to pan, what I found works best is about 1/60-1/80th of a second works great in TV mode.

[DDan]

Here is a shot of the truck with some PP.

http://DDan.smugmug.com/photos/130587021-L.jpg

[RonnieA]

cool shots. those trucks catch some serious air!

[AmpedPhoto]

Ok kill a little red in that last picture, it looks a little over saturated. Other then that maybe go into shadows and highlights and feather some shadows under the truck down.

[zach]

Cool Series. Makes me think of when I lived in SoCal and ran chase a few times for a buddy that ran in the 5/1600 class.
I'm assuming this was part of the FudPucker series?(If they are still around)