{"id":7124,"date":"2005-09-11T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-11T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.wordpress\/?p=7124"},"modified":"2015-06-15T14:21:57","modified_gmt":"2015-06-15T14:21:57","slug":"a-day-at-the-drag-races","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/alc\/a-day-at-the-drag-races\/","title":{"rendered":"A day at the (drag) races"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is an old racer&#8217;s expression: &#8220;If you want to get a big chunk of iron moving very fast, there&#8217;s no substitute for cubic inches.&#8221; If you want to capture these fast-moving chunks of iron (i.e., cars in drag races) with your camera, there&#8217;s no substitute for millimeters. Your best images of racing action will most likely be captured using zoom lenses with a maximum focal length of 200- to 300mm. But there&#8217;s more to it than that.<\/p>\n<p>Photographing any sport requires a rudimentary knowledge of what&#8217;s going on and in what sequence. Sure, you can photograph drag racing without knowing the difference between a &#8220;Christmas tree&#8221; (a countdown device that&#8217;s located where the cars line up) and a maple tree, but you&#8217;ll get better pictures if you do some research about the sport before trying to photograph it.<\/p>\n<p>All of the photographs shown here were originally captured as JPEG files with a digital SLR and interchangeable zoom lenses, and are shown full-frame, with no digital manipulation (other than the digital equivalent of burning and dodging, standard traditional darkroom techniques).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/alc\/wp-content\/uploads\/alc_images\/article8178_0.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And they&#8217;re off!The essence of drag racing is head-to-head competition between two cars going full tilt down a quarter-mile of smooth track. That dark, boxy object on the pole in front of the cars is the &#8220;Christmas tree&#8221; whose colored lights count down to begin the race. I was close enough to catch the action with a wide-angle lens. My DSLR&#8217;s burst mode setting let me shoot at up to five frames per second, an essential for photographing drag racing. This was the third in a sequence of seven images.<\/p>\n<p>Tech data: Camera: Canon EOS 20D; Lens:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/tm18200eos.html\" title=\"Tamron AF 18-200mm f\/3.5-6.3 XR DI II LD Aspherical lens at Adorama\">Tamron AF 18-200mm f\/3.5-6.3 XR DI II LD Aspherical lens<\/a>at 18mm. Exposure: Program mode, 1\/400 sec at f\/11. ISO: 400. -1\/3 stop exposure compensation. Compensation was set after consulting histogram for previous exposure.\u00a92005 Joe Farace<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/alc\/wp-content\/uploads\/alc_images\/article8178_1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Higher angle:You can make great pictures from the stands, and the elevated position adds a nice overhead perspective to the photographs, especially during burnouts like this. The big challenge with any image made at a drag strip is the busy, distracting backgrounds, so eliminating or minimizing the clutter by shooting from a high angle is an advantage. For images like this one, I always shoot in continuous mode, changing both focal length and camera position for each shot as the car moves away from the water pit.<\/p>\n<p>Tech data: Camera:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/ica1dm2n.html\" title=\"Canon EOS 1D Mark II at Adorama\">Canon EOS 1D Mark II<\/a>with<a href=\"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/ca75300af2u.html\" title=\"Canon EF 75-300mm f\/4-5.6  IS lens at Adorama\">EF 75-300mm f\/4-5.6<\/a>IS lens set at 300mm. Exposure: Aperture Priority, 1\/250 sec at f\/11. ISO: 100. -1\/3 stop exposure compensation.\u00a92005 Joe Farace<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/alc\/wp-content\/uploads\/alc_images\/article8178_2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Clean-up is a drag:Dragsters like Bill Lagoni&#8217;s represent the essence of the sport. Here Bill does a burnout in the water pit to clean his soft racing slicks of any debris he may have picked up when driving to the staging area. This is a great place to make drag racing photographs because, in addition to the practical aspects of cleaning their tires, I think the drivers like to put on a little show.<\/p>\n<p>Tech data: Camera:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/ica1dm2n.html\" title=\"Canon EOS 1D Mark II at Adorama\">Canon EOS 1D Mark II<\/a>with<a href=\"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/ca75300af2u.html\" title=\"Canon EF 75-300mm f\/4-5.6  IS lens at Adorama\">EF 75-300mm f\/4-5.6<\/a>IS zoom lens, at 75mm. Exposure: 1\/250 sec at f\/11.ISO 200. -1\/3 stop exposure compensation.\u00a92005 Joe Farace<\/p>\n<p>Hit the pit:The pit area of a drag race is the biggest car show you&#8217;ll ever attend, and most of the cars are works of art. This yellow and blue hot rod beneath a yellow canopy is a perfect example.<\/p>\n<p>Tech data: Camera:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/ica20d.html\" title=\"Canon EOS 20D at Adorama\">Canon EOS 20D<\/a>; Lens:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/tm18200eos.html\" title=\"Tamron AF 18-200mm f\/3.5-6.3 XR DI II LD Aspherical lens at Adorama\">Tamron AF 18-200mm f\/3.5-6.3 XR DI II LD Aspherical lens<\/a>at 18mm. This nice wide-angle perspective is usually not possible with zoom lenses that also have a 300mm (35mm equivalent) maximum focal length, Exposure: 1\/400 sec at f\/13, ISO 400, in Program mode. -1\/3 stop exposure compensation punched up the colors.\u00a92005 Joe Farace<\/p>\n<p>NON-PHOTO TIPS<\/p>\n<p>Some of these suggestions may seem obvious, but if you follow them I&#8217;ll guarantee it will result in your capturing better images because there won&#8217;t be any non-photographic distractions.<\/p>\n<p>1. Park your vehicle in the designated parking area. The last thing you need to hear when you are getting ready to photograph a championship event is the race announcer calling &#8220;will the owner of the orange Gremlin, please move your car or be towed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>2. Remain behind safety barriers at all times. Safety barriers are not set up everywhere, so use your judgment when choosing an area to photograph the races.<\/p>\n<p>3. Bring earplugs: drag racing&#8217;s LOUD! Bring earplugs (as well as a hat and sunscreen). Most tracks&#8217; concession stands sell earplugs; make sure to keep several pair in your camera bag. They&#8217;re easy to lose, inexpensive to replace.<\/p>\n<p>4. Give them space: Tickets to many drag race facilities include a pit pass allowing you to get close to the drivers and their cars. Please respect the team&#8217;s space, time, and equipment. This may be fun for you, but it&#8217;s often their profession, so treat the driver and his crew accordingly. While in the pits please be alert because there will be many scooters, 4-wheelers, motorcycles, or golf carts transporting people around. Be on the lookout for cars getting ready to enter the staging area. Racecars don&#8217;t have horns like the family jalopy, but you should be able to hear them coming??ven with earplugs.<\/p>\n<p>5. Finally, as with most professional sport facilities, you are allowed to take video or still pictures of the vehicles for personal use only. They may not be sold or marketed without a licensing arrangement from the speedway and\/or the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhra.com\">National Hot Rod Association.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Jeff Sipes of<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bandimere.com\" target=\"_blank\">Bandimere Speedway<\/a>for his courtesy and hospitality in allowing me to make the photographs at &#8220;Thunder on the Mountain presented by Grease Monkey&#8221; races shown in this story. If you live anywhere near the Denver area, Bandimere Speedway is the place to see drag racing at its best and most professional.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Farace?? newest book, &#8220;The Advanced Digital Photographers Workshop&#8221; co-authored with Rick Sammon and others, is available from www.joefarace.com. Please visit his newly updated website at<a href=\"http:\/\/www.joefaraceshootscars.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.joefaraceshootscars.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 Adorama Camera, Inc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is an old racer&#8217;s expression: &#8220;If you want to get a big chunk of iron moving very fast, there&#8217;s no substitute for cubic inches.&#8221;&nbsp;Drag racing photography requires a bit of knowledge&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":154,"featured_media":17677,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17815],"tags":[655],"class_list":["post-7124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-adorama-655"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>A day at the (drag) races | Expert photography blogs, tip, techniques, camera reviews - 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