| | This gallery is from the Classic Car Races that ran at the Circuit of the Americas on the 26th and 27th of October 2013.
It was one of my favorite events so far. Not only did you get access to the staging areas but you could talk to the owners and drivers, and quite often even sit in some of the cars.
Most of the cars had a racing history but the one that I found the most note worthy was the 1911 International. It's the really old looking blue car with #20. It placed 7th in the very first ever Indianapolis 500 race.
The cars ranged from that date all the way up to some formula and Le Mans cars from the early 90's.
One of the things that made the races fun to watch was that there were so many different types of cars on the track at the same time.
And yes, the cars in photos 47 and 48 only have 3 wheels. And you thought those Can-Am Spyders where something new. LOL
I think my favorite photo is the first one. The sun was setting behind the bleachers I was sitting in and it created some fantastic reflections on the side of many of the cars.
The other thing that made this race great was that these guys, and gals, where only racing for the thrill and fun, not big prize money. But the 2nd photos shows that most of them raced to the full extent of their abilities.
Photographically speaking, I put my favorite 25 photos at the front, but i managed to get 137 pretty good shots over the weekend.
So my photographic skills are certainly improving.
I did slightly adjust the colors on pretty much all of these images. The sun kept going behind clouds and coming out again so I had to keep tweaking the settings.
The end result was some photos being slightly underexposed and other being slightly over exposed.
I also did some post processing depth of field blurring on a few of them. Which is how i got photo 13 to look more like a kids toy than an actual full sized car.
But mostly it was to deal with stuff in the background that I didn't like.
And the last thing I'll say is that photos 3 through 8 are of a stock car that would eject a massive flame every time he had to brake hard immediately after accelerating.
I hope you enjoy looking at them, I certainly had a great time taking them. | | |
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