{"id":5241,"date":"2021-06-19T23:45:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-20T03:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/?p=5241"},"modified":"2021-06-19T23:43:41","modified_gmt":"2021-06-20T03:43:41","slug":"another-friday-night-at-the-races","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/?p=5241","title":{"rendered":"Another Friday Night at the Races"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last Friday night, I tried my hand at photographing the stock car races in Claremont, NH (see <a href=\"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/?p=5210\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"5210\">this post<\/a> for the details). That evening was rain-shortened and my ticket was good again for last nights racing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thus, yesterday, I headed out early, paid the difference in admission between the grandstand ticket and a paddock pass and wandered among the racers for a long afternoon\/evening. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I left the house about 4:15 PM and got to the track just as practice laps began at 5:30. The racing lasted until 11:30 and I got home just before 1 AM&#8230; not something this geezer could do every Friday night!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was hoping to get some behind-the-scenes photos of my neighbors preparing to race. However, they did not race last evening. So I wandered the pits for a while and rediscovered that I am not very adept at photographing people&#8230; especially people who are working hard to get ready to race. After awhile, I turned my attention to the action on the track.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>[scrollGallery id=793 &#8211; autoscroll = false width = 600 height = 600 useCaptions = true]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Warning&#8230; photographer talk ahead! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Photographing fast moving objects in poor light is &#8220;interesting&#8221;. Early on, with the sun still out, life was fairly easy. As the evening wore on, I ventured into ISO territory that I had not visited before in attempt to keep a shutter speed fast enough to freeze the motion of a race car. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I also discovered that I have a gap in my lens choices when it comes to this sort of photography. The long end of my 16-80 mm zoom is a bit short and my 300 mm lens is often a bit long. (I certainly did not need the telelconverter I brought along for the 300.) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I also used &#8220;burst mode&#8221; exclusively. Burst mode allows one to take multiple frames in very rapid succession something like 10 frame per second for my camera. I very rarely use this mode in my usual practice. When I do it is only for short times and generally in the &#8220;low speed mode that my camera has. Last night I used the high speed mode for the majority of  evening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The result&#8230;I made a total of 4002 exposures and almost filled a 128 GB card!<em> Terra incognita <\/em>for me. Sorting though all of those files was a major pain and I bet that I missed a few interesting frames in doing so&#8230; one of the downsides of burst mode! I ended up processing about 100 frames total. Aren&#8217;t you glad I am showing only a dozen here!?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Friday night, I tried my hand at photographing the stock car races in Claremont, NH (see this post for the details). That evening was rain-shortened and my ticket was good again for last nights racing. Thus, yesterday, I headed out early, paid the difference in admission between the grandstand ticket and a paddock pass [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5241"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5248,"href":"https:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5241\/revisions\/5248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}