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Going the distance
Going the distance
Bogartt


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Challenge: Free Study 2011-09 (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Canon EOS-7D
Lens: Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM
Location: Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca
Date: Sep 17, 2011
Aperture: f/5.6
ISO: ISO-400
Shutter: 1/250
Galleries: Sports
Date Uploaded: Sep 29, 2011

 Taken during the ALMS race at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. 6 hour endurance race with 4 classes of cars running at the same time. The photo is of the winning car in the GT class, # 45 of Team Flying Lizard taken 5 hours 38 minutes into the race. The cars and track take quite a beating in this amount of time, starting on a sunny afternoon clean, shiny and damage free they end up looking like this. Covered with pieces of melted tire rubber, beat up, missing body parts with duct tape covering damage. Not all the cars finish but the ones that do have covered an amazing amount of distance and i thought this images captured the emotion and effect of a long day of hard racing. Not a lot of editing, Crop, curves, minor color adjust, wish the race fell within the shutter speed challenge but that's how it goes :)
Cheers

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Place: 208 out of 297
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Avg (commenters): 7.3333
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Votes: 118
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
10/06/2011 08:58:45 AM
Good stop action here good angle you have the car in coming out of the corner maybe you could have crop a bit tighter have more of the car in the image ..Well done
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 10/04/2011 02:35:01 AM
Difficult to stop motion in such awful low light. WD.
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 10/01/2011 01:11:14 AM
One of the more appealing, atmospheric racecar shots I have seen at DPC.
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