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GVal
27th of October 2008 (Mon), 23:36
Taken on 10/24 at Raceway Park in Englishtown NJ; used the XTi with the 70-200 2.8L and the 50 1.4

If anyone is wondering the WB was normal but I found myself messing about with sepia tones in post.

C/C appreciated:

1.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3243/2973575717_6d80b02b56_o.jpg

2.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3201/2974431626_aca2611b2b_o.jpg

3.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3067/2974431836_a31bd2d93b_o.jpg

4.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3152/2973740903_bc917ca584_o.jpg

5.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3001/2974431888_6a75921dbd_o.jpg

6.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3073/2973579411_72d3e3f5b6_o.jpg

7.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3181/2974593084_44420df9ab_o.jpg

8.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3206/2974431990_e85b0d4415_o.jpg

also: full gallery on flickr (http://www.flickr.com/photos/gvalinoti/sets/72157608382714839/)
jlozano180
28th of October 2008 (Tue), 16:04
Great shots, What was your ISO and sutter settings?
GVal
28th of October 2008 (Tue), 16:48
Great shots, What was your ISO and sutter settings?

Thanks! :)

ISO was at 1600 for 95% of the time and shutter ranged from 1/30-1/80; EXIF is intact if you want to know for a specific shot.
Jamie Holladay
28th of October 2008 (Tue), 21:46
Not bad. I think the first two are the best. A couple of the others are a bit soft, but nice job.
vheilman
28th of October 2008 (Tue), 21:59
#1 gets my vote.... nice crop, great sense of speed and motion.

Very nice
Echo63
28th of October 2008 (Tue), 22:15
great series
looks like your night practices are better lit than ours
PurelySwift
29th of October 2008 (Wed), 00:29
7 is pretty cool. Love the flames.
PeteDyer
29th of October 2008 (Wed), 04:41
Never really to bothered about drifting, but No. 1 is great, just a shame about those cones!
GVal
29th of October 2008 (Wed), 18:46
thanks everyone, appreciate the comments

Not bad. I think the first two are the best. A couple of the others are a bit soft, but nice job.
Thanks. I think the softness is unavoidable; it's the nature of the beast with drifting anyway.. the cars travel relatively slowly and very nonlinearly. Combined with the slow shutter speed and small DOF/wide aperture needed to shoot at night, it's a challenge for sure.

great series
looks like your night practices are better lit than ours

Most of these are at ISO 1600 f1.8/f2.0 (too dark even for me to use the 70-200 2.8L!) and have been brightened considerably with ACR; I'd hate to imagine what it's like any worse :-?

I checked out some of your work on DA, great stuff :)