Top Fuel - Fuchs Aust. Nationals - Sydney...

[Kyl3]

Hi all...

Here are some photos from the Fuchs Australian Nationals held at Western Sydney Intl. Dragway in Sydney over the weekend!

The event was unfortunately postponed late (11pm) on Sat night due to a fueller going deep into braking area under power, proceeding through the sand trap, busting through the catch wire and ending up in the tyre wall.
Sunday brought a new catch wire and also brought the rain with it and saw the meeting cancelled.

Here's some photos!

1.
http://www.kylesharpphoto.com/gallery/d/18290-2/20080912-KJS_5330ks.jpg

2.
http://www.kylesharpphoto.com/gallery/d/18208-2/20080912-KJS_5219ks.jpg

3.
http://www.kylesharpphoto.com/gallery/d/18214-2/20080912-KJS_5254ks.jpg

4.
http://www.kylesharpphoto.com/gallery/d/18865-2/20080913-KJS_5773ks.jpg

5.
http://www.kylesharpphoto.com/gallery/d/18808-2/20080913-KJS_6086ks.jpg

6.
http://www.kylesharpphoto.com/gallery/d/18828-2/20080913-KJS_6114ks.jpg

7.
http://www.kylesharpphoto.com/gallery/d/18358-2/20080912-KJS_5474ks.jpg

8.
http://www.kylesharpphoto.com/gallery/d/18370-2/20080912-KJS_5491ks.jpg

[Dave.H]

Fantastic! Thanks for sharing!

[gdrMatt]

Excellent shots Kyle.

[Jamie Holladay]

Great job, Kyle!

[pastanley]

excellent photos. Drag racing is my favorite photo sport. Can I ask what lens you use?

[Fad2blk]

Love these photos. You can almost feel it in #5.

[WShade]

Fantastic

[Kyl3]

Thanks all :)

These shots were all with the 400 2.8is

[REXTi]

awesome job

[kit lens]

Great work!

[canonnoob]

sweet shots

[S7000]

Cracking shots!

Do you shoot the Wednesday night races too?

[justincase724]

Looks like the guy in #2 has a bit of a problem! Shots 3 and 5 are my favorites, but all of them are excellent.

[Stressball]

Excellent photos, I was at this event too. That final crash was spectacular :O

Anyway, these are some damn fine photos, I'd love to be able to get shots like these... Especially the first shot, thats only a Top Alcohol and you got header flames :O That is absolutely perfect timing on your part, and fantastic composition to catch it!

[Jim G]

I really like 'em - they only get better as you scroll down!

[Kyl3]

Thanks guys! :)

Stressball... it's not a header flame, it's raw fuel :D

[Stressball]

Well it's a flame coming out of aheader pipe, so it's a header flame to me :P

[Flashstan]

Nice Work Ky13, I am going to a small local event this weekend and was wondering what camera and lens were you using?

[Kyl3]

24-70 2.8
70-200 28
400 2.8

All these shots however were with the 400 and off camera flash :)

[Space]

Very nice. Good job.

[klippe]

Beautiful colours.

[atky]

There so good my ears hurt

[adamsti]

Great job, love the Altered.

[ice8420]

Look great, thank you for sharing.

What kind of off camera strobe setup do you use? What's your max sync speed w/ that setup??

Sorry for all the questions, just like to hear what's required to get shots like that. My first year on the starting line, I've only had to opportunity to take 4 exposures total of any top fuel/nitro this year, had one come out OK :)

[WMDunkin]

amazing shots, what where your settings?

[ForumForker]

Wowzer pics all !

[Kyl3]

Thanks for the kind comments guys!! :)

1/300 is the max sync with my 1d3 and 580ex2's.. but i shoot around 1/125 - 1/200 for these head on shots.

What settings is a bit hard to answer as there's no right answer unfortunately :)

[NorCal 2500HD]

Awesome photos.....

[j-paka]

hahhaha i like the helmet of driver in number 7

[acchildress]

Some great shots there. Good focus. Good exposure. Lots of fire. The only thing missing is huge amounts of tire smoke, but for that we'd have to go back to the 60's.