Chili Bowl 2017 From the Stands

Attending Chili Bowl 2017 this year, shots from the stands, through the fence. I am looking for suggestions on shooting from the outside.

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Get closer to the fence. Long focal lengths and the widest possible aperture should make the fence disappear.

Sitting in row 7, with a pretty full house so not much chance to get closer to the fence. I have added shooting detail to the pics all shot with 1D4/70-200 2.8 @ 2.8 and ranging from 160mm to 200mm.

Lots of fun watching Chili Bowl, lots of people, some really good midget racing all indoors... the later in the day, and the longer in laps of the races, the haze and dust in the air gets pretty tough to shoot through from the stands.

Thanks for the replies.

since you're already at 2.8 then you need more lens or move closer. Neither is possible at this point. Other option is extremely low shutter speeds to eliminate the fence like this:

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That is what I was coming to the conclusion of, and with a full house, 18 inch wide seats (no typical american race car fan is 18 inches wide), it is almost impossible to get panning with that slow of a shutter speed sitting shoulder to shoulder in the stands.

I am going to see what is possible to get infield credentialed photo access for next year.

unfortunately the infield is packed with photographers as well

Yeah it was pretty full down there Friday night, I imagine tonight will be as well.

Is it possible to stand up at the very back of the grandstands with a longer lens?

Earlier in the event I could have, but the events last 2 nights not so much... it is a full house and tonight will be packed to the max. This event started in 1987 and will have 20,000 in attendance... tickets are passed along in peoples wills...