Drag Boat Racing

[evil4blue]

Met up with PeteQ (by accident) and a couple guys from my photo club at Marine Creek Lake today and shot some of the drag boat qualifying. I used my 300 f/2.8 with the 1.7x teleconverter for 510mm of jaw dropping mm. This setup was quite tight, but I was able to get close into the action and had a lot of fun doing it.

Here's a few of my measly attempts. I'm sure Pete will post some of his and blow mine away. I already saw the one in the DFW forum and am already in awe.







I love this guy's face, it looks like to old memorex commercial:


















A couple shot at low shutter for a panning effect:

[gomez583]

Great shots Steve.

[wadebarker]

I love the panning shots....those are definitely hard to master.

[dbphotos]

Great shots!

[jordankreationz]

I love them all but the colors on the sixth one are soooo great! That's some big time zoom you had goin on. Looks like you had fun.

DJ

[Daniel Bates]

Gotta love #9--that enclosed cockpit screams "Boatmobile" (pardon the pun!).

[TXhummer2]

Fast camera, fast lens, fast photog, fast water, fast boats....Wow!

[Roy]

You got a lot of good ones Steve. Great color and good job on the panning. For me the rooster tail coming off the back is what makes these boats so dramatic. I think you did a real nice job especially as hot as it was today. I pretty much melt in this heat. Thanks for sharing your work!

[crfitchjr]

All are great shots!! Love the next to last, great pan.

Bob

[DragBoatPhoto]

those are good, I "sponsor" the orange boat "Desperado" in #8, dont forget we do it all again this time in Marble Falls this upcoming weekend. (with 6-8 fuel boats)

[ivgonzalez]

Nice work, I played with panning over the weekend. Panning is an art in and of it self.

I like the last shot best. The action is frozen, and the back and foreground are blurred well denoting Speed!