[Leica] race night

[don.dory at gmail.com (Don Dory)]

Arche,
You did a great job capturing the folks in very low light conditions.  Now
go back and get closer, most of the story could be told by cropping in
almost 50%.  So, make some prints, take them to the next race, and with your
new found friends get closer and refine the story.

This not criticism, it is in fact very hard to stick you camera in a
strangers face; but now they are not strangers so it should be much easier
to tell the story with just the critical details in the image.

Good luck!

Don
don.dory@gmail.com


On 4/18/06, Arche, Harvey <Harvey.Arche@jp2hs.org> wrote:
>
> OK, so I was born very much to the South, and my parents made going to the
> races at Sebring an annual get-away-from-the-kids event (a sign of coming 
> of
> age was when I got to go along) and I've always loved fast cars. Now I'm
> sitting on an AARP card. You'd think that surely at some point in time I'd
> been to a stock car race, but no, I've always snooted it. Until last Friday
> night. Music City Motorplex. This is sub-Busch league, mom & pop, inner
> city, 1/2 mile oval racing, and it was fantastic - I kid you negative.
>
> Even to a first time visitor, there is an immediate impression of
> community. Whole multi-generational families, and parents dropping of 
> groups
> of pre-teens with no worry that anything might happen to them. People all
> seemed to know each other. And everyone was extremely welcoming,
> accomodating to a newcomer with explanations, and open in conversation
> without being condescending, even though I obviously didn't fit the 
> pattern.
> Hell, the track announcer came up and introduced myself to me, but that
> might have been because of the German jewelry.
>
> I haven't tried narrative reportage before, so here are two brief stories.
> The first is self-explanatory: a young man's first win;
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/album404/first_win
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/album404/hug
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/album404/the_goods
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/album404/interview
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/album404/the_sponser
>
> The second could use some backstory. The fellow who won this race has been
> doing it for longer, but not as long as his 65 year old Dad, who came in
> second. Dad had kicked Jr.'s butt in the qualifying race.
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/album404/congrats
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/album404/luckycharm
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/album404/runnerup
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/album404/dad
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/album404/the_moment
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/album404/afterwards
>
> Picks, pans, and editing advice?
>
> I think I'll be going back.
> Arche
>
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>
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