this was shot at richmond international raceway, after completing my newspaper assignment ;-)
this is bobby hamilton, jr, testing his 32 Tide NASCAR Nextel Cup car.
i shot this with a reverse pan--rather than moving the camera with the car, i shot moving the camera towards the car (pretty much the same way you swing at a tennis ball). he was coming out of turn 3, probably doing about 100 mph.
the colors are pretty much as they are. the cars don't get painted until they are ready for racing. since this is a test day, the car only had a no paint, just sponsor decals.
post-processing: used bibble to extract a jpg from raw. sized and cropped. minor adjustments for levels, curves, hue/saturization, brightness/contrast. sized, usm, and saved for web.
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thanks for all the comments--24 of them! this is almost my lowest-rated high-comment challenge. i guess, though, the image simply lacked the mass appeal necessary to go higher. doesn't really matter--just getting the shot is enough. thanks again!
and, to all you who voted this a 1 or a 2 hahaha to you, too ;-)
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Wonderful take on the challenge!
I love the space in the driving direction , the blured background and the focused carwork beautifully together.
I am not so sure about the square framing though. I think that a rectangle crop would work better. 7
This works quite well for me. The tonalities and angles of it are very forceful, they produce a strong sense of motion and direction. I wish the car were a hair further out from the right edge, but that's a nit. It may be that some people will vote this low for having no truly sharp zone, but the overall blur works for me.
Nice example of seperating the main object from the rest of the image. This is missing in most of the images in this challenge, and makes it difficult to determine the actual subject is. Very nicely done <7>
"Create an image where your subject is the strong point of the image, but only occupying a very small portion of the image space."
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