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Just Another Day at the Track
Just Another Day at the Track
arron_christensen


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Challenge: Free Study 2007-10 (Advanced Editing V)
Camera: Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Lens: Canon EF 75-300mm f/4-5.6 II
Location: F1 Boston, Boston MA
Date: Oct 26, 2007
Aperture: f/5
ISO: 1600
Shutter: 1/60 sec
Galleries: Sports, Action
Date Uploaded: Oct 30, 2007

 This was shot at F1 Boston during their Friday night league. It's an indoor track, so the lighting is not optimal. I had to underexpose the shot and use IOS 1600 to get a usable shutter speed, but was able to kind of remedy that in Photoshop.

I converted from raw, then used levels, curves, saturation, some cloning to fix a red spot in the upper left corner, a little noise reduction (don't have noise ninja), resized, usm, save for web.

Hopefully, this does not get too beat up in the free study, as I feel it is a decent shot, but advice on how to make it better (without getting a faster lens as I am poor right now) would be appreciated.

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Canon EOS-5D
Canon EF 85mm f/1.8 USM
 01/24/2008 06:36:20 PM
This has a ton of potential, my only problem is the graininess here, very unique shot with great colors, and yes you are correct a faster lens would have added a lot here, for the use of lower iso, but nonetheless a very interesting shot.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
Nikon D80
Nikon AF Nikkor 85mm f/1.8D
 11/07/2007 11:40:57 PM
cameraphone?
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Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark III
Olympus 12-100mm f/4.0 M.Zuiko ED IS PRO
 11/07/2007 10:30:35 PM
A little grainy, but good action.
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