Coke Zero 400 Pre-race Parade

I took over four hundred (400) shots of the forty-three (43) Corvettes and their owners who volunteered for the pre-race parade with the drivers of the field. Here are a number of samples.

As always, I'm a photography novice striving for amateur status. My shots will be varied, especially earlier on, as I was tweaking the metering, bracketing and other details as I was shooting at an angle facing the setting sun. It's likely I shot with a spot meter entirely too much, although some shots came out better than had I probably not.

I didn't get all of the Corvette drivers for various reasons as follows ...

- I was shooting from pit row, people working
(did my best to keep them out of the shot)

- Driver's face hidden by windshield/frame
(about 33-50% of the available shots)

- Driver looking towards their right, away
(common enough for some)

- Driver's exposes "gratuitous feature"
(e.g., tongue ala Michael Jordan style)

- Following the previous car too quickly
(didn't get many shots)

- Moving too fast, often just after previous
(didn't get many shots)

- Bad timing
(rare, my fault for at least two drivers,
although I think Patrick is a vampire)

A big thanx goes to the Ponce Inlet Corvette Club who gathered the cars and their owners for International Speedway, including inviting drivers from many other clubs (and allowing myself to tag along).

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items are from 04 Jul 2009.