Another old one I never gave a proper reply ...
On 2011-07-12 22:15, Mark Cassino wrote:
I like it. You have competing diagonals - the lines made by the bottom of the
dust cloud (going from upper left to lower right) and the edge of the track
(lower left to upper right) witht he car sitting just above the intersection.
I'd crop a bit off the bottom and the left and put a little more space in front
of and above the car to imply more movement... Overall, I like the graphic
elements and the soft lighting.
----- Original Message -----
From: Doug Franklin<[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2011 10:20 PM
I've shot a lot of frames of automobiles racing over the last few years. I
don't know if I've shown this one to the group or not, but it's one of my
favorites. Taken at Road Atlanta's Turn 10 during the 2007 Petit le Mans
sportscar race, just before the sun went below the hills.
http://NutDriver.org/2007-PlM-Esperante.jpg
One of the Panoz Esperante cars had spun out into a gravel trap off to the
right of the shot a few feet. After coming almost to a stop in the gravel, he
pulled it together and surfed over to the pavement, creating a huge dust cloud.
In the photo, he's just regained the pavement and started accelerating through
the dust cloud to continue the race. Unfortunately, the wind was fairly still,
and it took a couple of minutes before you could see into, much less through,
the dust cloud. Several drivers had some exciting moments going through that
cloud.
Thanks for your comments, Mark. That shot is actually full frame, so I
can crop parts off, but I can't add stuff (an artist could, I can't).
The light, at that time of day, at that spot on the track, is magical.
The sun is filtering through the trees, it's mid- to late-autumn, and
the sun is basically on the horizon, too. It only took me like eight or
nine races (years) to figure it out. :-) I've shot many, many races at
Road Atlanta, but only Petit le Mans really "uses" sunset.
You might have to be logged in to Facebook, but here's another one from
that same light, even the same race, but across the track, maybe 30m or
so away from the previous shooting position:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=119672661431498&set=a.114665221932242.11964.100001662949948&type=3
If it requires a Facebook login, let me know, and I'll copy it out
somewhere more accessible.
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Thanks,
DougF (KG4LMZ)
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