2007 - SummitRacing.com NHRA Nationals - Las Vegas

Ok I know I am a little late but I just found this great site / forum recently so I thought I would share some of the pictures I took at last years Vegas Race.

We had such a great time that we are going back again in 3 weeks from today!

To be fair I was using a really slow lens when I took these shots but I am still happy with the results considering. This year I hope our seats are away from all of the staff photographers that were in almost every shot I took.

I will post some of the 2008 Pics as soon as I get back.

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Sitting down track farther is better. You will need a f/2.8 lense at night. I was able to keep the ISO at 400 last year at Joliet shooting wide open with the 300 f/2.8. Keeps the noise down. These two shots have a lot of noise.
http://www.timadamspho​tography.com …otorsports_and_​avia88.htm

adamsti wrote in post #5146543
Sitting down track farther is better. You will need a f/2.8 lense at night. I was able to keep the ISO at 400 last year at Joliet shooting wide open with the 300 f/2.8. Keeps the noise down. These two shots have a lot of noise.
http://www.timadamspho​tography.com …otorsports_and_​avia88.htm

iso 400 geez you guys dont race in real night at night i push 3200 iso 1/40th of a second at f2.8 now thats night racing

Most NHRA national events are well lit, we like to see where were going.

all we have is one set of very dim street lights on the left side of the track a good 20ft from track side

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I agree that these are way too noisy... I did what I could with that I had at the time.

I know that this a very debatable thing but can you give me some Lens suggestions for this next trip. I looked through the pictures I took last year and to my surprise most of my pictures were taking in the 50 - 100mm range (We were Close to the starting line). I was thinking about picking up the Sigma 50-150 f/2.8.

funhouse69 wrote in post #5145626
This year I hope our seats are away from all of the staff photographers that were in almost every shot I took.

Good luck with that since there's always so many up there. Best chance of doing that will be shooting them after the 60' mark or getting a really long lens and zooming in past the media photogs. Thanks for sharing you shots and hope to see more from you.