Drag Racing-Santa Pod-Main Event

[Jules.r]

This was my first time Drag Racing with my new camera, and my first chance to practice panning. Unfortunately 2 days of the 4 day meeting were totally rained out with not a single wheel turning on the track.

Comments and critique very welcome as I am looking to improve as much as I can.

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http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v191/Jules.r/POTN_-7.jpg
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http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v191/Jules.r/POTN_-12.jpg
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http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v191/Jules.r/POTN_-16.jpg
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http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v191/Jules.r/POTN_-3.jpg
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http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v191/Jules.r/POTN_-14.jpg
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http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v191/Jules.r/POTN_-2.jpg
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http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v191/Jules.r/POTN_-9.jpg
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http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v191/Jules.r/POTN_-1.jpg

[Paul C-J]

really nice shot's a friend was there that weekend on one of the teams , i forget ! but anyways , he said it was such a waste of a weekend..

i find it hard to distinguish the difference from the car and the background at the pod even with a good long pan , due to the background being so colorful and busy !

im up there this weekend coming for a car show , hope the weathers nice

[Zilly]

what a weekend was down all sunday in the end endded up playing uni with a couple of driver friends

your pan looks good but i would be prepaid to go lower and realy smooth out the back ground.

i normaly shoot from the other side and further down as you tend to get a more dramatic shot but still very impressive for first time at a 1120ft of asphalt with a camera

p.s the main image on page 25 of the program is mine (dominic romney ) ;)

[slinky]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v423/slinksport/stig_fire_1.jpg

One of my efforts from the weekend, Stig Neergard having kicked a rod out of the block..

BTW, if anyone is at any of the National Championship events feel free to pop in and see us in the Pro-ET pits (normally as far away from the start line as you can get!)

slinky

[adamsti]

Nice shots, only suggestion would be to use the bottom focus point to get the car in the bottom of the frame.

[Promod_Princess]

I really like the photo of my dads car (the purple 53 stude which runs in pro mod) its a great photo.

The one of the blown nugget pro mod nearly hitting the timing lights is also a great photo!!


:D

Cheers
Stefani x

[Freak3150]

I LOVE #5!

[Dave Harries]

Fantastic shots , was a toss up between castle combe on the monday or goto the drag racing , the free entry to castle combe won the day . I will have to venture upto the pod one day this year .

[Jules.r]

Thanks everyone for such valuable comments, they are exactly what I need, that and practice. Shame it rained as I would have got another two days shooting in and it would have been awesome as records were already being broken, good going as for a lot of the cars it was their first time out this year, the place was rammed with the best from all over Europe!

Next time I will definately try going lower with the shutter-thanks Zilly.

Interesting suggestion regarding the bottom focus point, I will give that a try too. I have had a play around with one image, is this the kind of thing you mean adamsti?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v191/Jules.r/POTN_-7_1.jpg

[Zilly]

its ok

if ya at the finals or hockenhime give me a shout we should be there all weekend on both accounts

[ratter]

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http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v191/Jules.r/POTN_-14.jpg



That car is tuff as would love to see a higher res cropped version

[KenMac]

Love em all

Nice work

[Roger-Walker]

I took a look at the weather, and went along Saturday, was playing at photographer, as I was wandering around with friends.
Here's the one of the Top Fueler with problems, just as it happened (look at the back tyre unloading)
http://www.fareham.me.uk/p/2007/santapod/crw_3255c.jpg

I was waiting for the Mercury in picture 5 above to do a run, but he had carb problems, so I only saw one run that he aborted before the 1/8 mile.

The bikes went quite well
http://www.fareham.me.uk/p/2007/santapod/crw_2644.jpg
The one before would have been better if the two "professionals" weren't mid frame talking to each other...

I also got a sequence of the Bigfoot truck getting it wrong and parking it on it's side.
You can see the rest at http://www.fareham.org/motor/07sp-me.shtml