I figured you guys would like some of these shots. I took them with a Nikon D40x with the kit lens. I shot most of the action shots at the 60-ft mark where there is a break in the guardrail. This series is pretty darn big around here. They do 1/8th mile only.
I don't use any fancy settings on the camera. I shoot shutter priority. I shot the action shots at 1/125th sec. I let the camera pic the aperture and iso. The key to shooting the action shots is to FOLLOW the car through the shot. I swivel around from right to left and as the car is at the middle I depress the button. You never stop the camera until after the shot is taken. It takes a little bit of practice. The slower the shutter speed, the more blur the background will have, but then the car can get fuzzy if you shoot too slow, like 1/60th. If I shoot at too fast of a shutter speed the background won't have any blur, and you'll lose the sense of motion in the shot, like at 1/500th.
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