1st time at shooting Drag Racing

[surfer_chicky]

This is my first posting of my pics on here. Well these are my first attempt, a little dissapointed TBH a little over exposed but hey learn from your mistakes and all that :( I forgot my tripod for starters so they are all hand held on 1/100 shutter speed. Im a newbie to SLR world, used my 300d with a 75-300mm zoom lense. Any comments on improvement most welcomed, thanks for looking.
These were shot at Bug Jam at santa pod a week ago.

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y259/surfer_chicky1/BugJam2005001a.jpg

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y259/surfer_chicky1/BugJam2005021a.jpg

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y259/surfer_chicky1/BugJam2005016a.jpg

[eos-rob-uk]

Welcome to the forum,

2 and 3 are right there. cannot wait to see what you can do with a tripod or monopod, great work thank for shareing.

RoB B

[Cadwell]

Yes, you're right; the exposure is way off. Your panning technique looks pretty good though, so stick at it! :)

p.s. keep forgetting the tripod. If you turn up with one at a race track or even a drag strip like Pod... experienced photographers will point at you and laugh ;) Tripods and motorsport don't go together.

[Dealau]

p.s. keep forgetting the tripod. If you turn up with one at a race track or even a drag strip like Pod... experienced photographers will point at you and laugh ;) Tripods and motorsport don't go together.

Yeah i'm not big on using any type of pod for drag racing photography. I prefer hand held. But then again i'm normally on the wall and move around quite abit.

Your getting there, just a matter of practice practice practice and play with the settings.

[surfer_chicky]

Thanks for your kind comments Guys. As you can tell I like my Vdubs there is not another show there this year, but I would like to goto the european Championships their in September and see some proper racing!!

[ryno4youth]

Great job for a first-timer. Keep up the good work.

[ryno4youth]

Great job for a first-timer. Keep up the good work.

[kbreit]

It looks good. I did drag racing a few weeks ago and it's hard, especially with 8 second cars which I was shooting. Your exposure is a little high though, but that's about it. Keep up the good work and post more quarter mile shots.

[GMosher]

Good start. It's hard starting out.
I have personally never used a monopod or a tripod for automotive shots....i keep meaning to, but never manage to remember.

[JuZ]

Are you shooting in RAW? You could adjust the exposure in RAW editor then :) Your panning looks good though