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Challenge: Panning (Basic Editing)
Camera: Canon EOS-1D Mark IIn
Location: Pomona Raceway
Date: Feb 9, 2008
Aperture: F9
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/320
Galleries: Action
Date Uploaded: Feb 12, 2008

This was a last minute entry for me and a first...shot at Pomona raceway while shooting NHRA....this shot is pretty much out of the camera....only contrast and saturation done...enjoy

Statistics
Place: 56 out of 128
Avg (all users): 5.2838
Avg (commenters): 6.3000
Avg (participants): 4.9804
Avg (non-participants): 5.3708
Views since voting: 616
Views during voting: 403
Votes: 229
Comments: 11
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02/26/2008 02:17:20 PM
Hello,
Hell of an effort thats for sure. In fact in my personal opinion this is pretty cool. I say this because I think you got yourself into a no win situation here and came out of it fairly well. By the no-win I mean funny cars, they are either doing 3 miles per hour or 250+ I can't even turn my head fast enough to follow them down the track let alone a camara :). Three things I think hurt you here were 1) Your horizon is tilted giving me the sense the car is going up hill. 2) The funny car is way to tight we need some room so we get the sense that puppy is rumbleing down the track or about to. 3) To much of the crowd it is a bit distracting maybe cropping some of them out would have helped. The funny car itself is fantastic nice and clean well focused a nice job for sure. Over all I like the image but like I stated prior I think you just got caught in no mans land.
 Comments Made During the Challenge
02/19/2008 10:23:53 AM
if it was moving really fast the crowd would be extremely bluirry
02/19/2008 01:07:35 AM
The horizon really makes this one not work well. If it were a hill climb I would believe it. But
02/15/2008 06:50:42 PM
Wow, was the car rolling slowly for the shot? I would imagine it would be pretty hard to get a good pan half way down the track.
02/15/2008 12:30:12 PM
Excellent sharpness & color on the car, but for me the background is close to being just blurry rather than being motion blurred, so I have an unsettling double vision feeling. I really love looking at this car with the crowd blocked to include only the top third of the frame (although I'm sure this will do better as you have it cropped). I like the way the tilt flattens out some of the car lines while creating some interesting angles.
02/15/2008 04:26:15 AM
Great focus and interesting composition!
02/14/2008 11:29:41 AM
Nicely done!!
02/14/2008 11:24:34 AM
the tilt is distracting to me.
02/13/2008 08:12:36 PM
nice
02/13/2008 07:51:31 PM
gorgeous
02/13/2008 08:36:40 AM
too tightly cropped, give it somewhere to go


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