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Hello All,

The time has come again for racing to return to Atlanta. IROC and NASCAR are
here this weekend, and my work has brought me back to the track. A friend of
mine was nice enough to post a few of my pics on the IROC web site for me.
See the following link:

http://www.irocracing.com/2005season...027_album.html

Clay

On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 00:43:28 -0400, "Clay S. Turner"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>http://www.irocracing.com/2005season...027_album.html
>
>Clay


Cool! Have fun there.

I've not followed IROC much since it became an extension to NASCAR.
It was really cool, to me, anyway, back when they still combined road
courses and ovals and had a really good mix of drivers. That hasn't
been the case for at least ten or fifteen years, though, sadly.

But it still should be fun to hang around and see the hardware.


Eric Jacobsen
Minister of Algorithms, Intel Corp.
My opinions may not be Intel's opinions.
http://www.ericjacobsen.org

Clay S. Turner wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> The time has come again for racing to return to Atlanta. IROC and NASCAR are
> here this weekend, and my work has brought me back to the track. A friend of
> mine was nice enough to post a few of my pics on the IROC web site for me.
> See the following link:
>
> http://www.irocracing.com/2005season...027_album.html

The quality of those pictures and the speed with which they load over my
dial-up connection show more savvy than mere composition. Nothing slack
there either!

Jerry
--
Engineering is the art of making what you want from things you can get.
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On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 00:43:28 -0400, "Clay S. Turner"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>Hello All,
>
>The time has come again for racing to return to Atlanta. IROC and NASCAR are
>here this weekend, and my work has brought me back to the track. A friend of
>mine was nice enough to post a few of my pics on the IROC web site for me.
>See the following link:
>
>http://www.irocracing.com/2005season...027_album.html
>
>Clay

Hi Clay,
nice pictures. I've always thought about
entering my "hot rod" in some sort of a race.
But I don't think my 1991 Honda Civic Hatchback
would do too well against those guys.

See Ya',
[-Rick-]

On Sat, 29 Oct 2005 00:55:52 GMT, R.Lyons@_BOGUS_ieee.org (Rick Lyons)
wrote:

>Hi Clay,
> nice pictures. I've always thought about
>entering my "hot rod" in some sort of a race.
>But I don't think my 1991 Honda Civic Hatchback
>would do too well against those guys.
>
>See Ya',
>[-Rick-]

Rick, some of the faster cars in the race groups that I run with are
the little Hondas. The CRX and the Del Sol make awesome road race
cars. Some of the better competitions we get are between these Hondas
and the Porsche 944 guys. I struggle to keep up with the SHO.

So don't count your Civic out just yet...


Eric Jacobsen
Minister of Algorithms, Intel Corp.
My opinions may not be Intel's opinions.
http://www.ericjacobsen.org

Hello Guys,

Thanks for all of the comments. I haven't really followed IROC for years,
but the situation arose. Bob McCarty who shoots for IROC is the webmaster
for my photoclub, so he invited me to come shoot some IROC stuff. Very Cool!
So Jerry, he takes credit for the fast loading and for most of the shots on
the site. He was nice enough to put up three of mine. I happened to already
be at the track on call, so basically I take a lot of pictures during the
event. My actual work is handled rather quickly days before the event - I
just need to be available during race time. I did have one little emergency
right before the race today , but it was quickly rectified.

Some of comments from last spring's event indicated some of my images were
too static (I concur), so I played around with various shutter speeds until
I found the combination that gave me a solid car image but provided blurring
on the wheels and background. This time around I was shooting with a camera
that was up to the task of autofocusing and high speed shooting of cars at
180 mph and with an image size of 12.4 megapixels. I even did some shots at
1/8000th of a second which stopped even the wheels. The individual lug nuts
are completely resolved in these high speed shots. But the ones with motion
blur are in general more acceptable.

Taking pictures for IROC is way easier than for NASCAR. I got plenty of
NASCAR shots during the practice and in the pits before the race - but
during the race only a few photographers are allowed to take shots
trackside. Everywhere else the viewing is obscured with safety fencing,
light poles etc. To get a "photo pass", one needs a letter from the editor
of an accredited media outlet stating you are taking pictures for the
newspaper/magazine etc. And this must be arranged pretty well in advance. So
I need to find such an editor. The tracks don't allow for independent
photogs :-(

Thanks for looking,
Clay

p.s. Rick, one of the local tracks allows for spectators to bring their
personal cars onto the track for drag racing. You could bring your civic.
But actually Eric is correct in that at some of the SCCA events, quite a few
civics are raced quite successfully.



"Clay S. Turner" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:NZh8f.11972$[email protected]..
> Hello All,
>
> The time has come again for racing to return to Atlanta. IROC and NASCAR
> are here this weekend, and my work has brought me back to the track. A
> friend of mine was nice enough to post a few of my pics on the IROC web
> site for me. See the following link:
>
> http://www.irocracing.com/2005season...027_album.html
>
> Clay
>
>
>