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Subject: [OM] Re: First Arenacross shoot-Holy Smokes!
From: "Gordon J. Ross" <gordross@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 00:36:06 -0700
Hi Stephen:

Nice Shot! What is curious though is the apparent motion of the front wheel
and the lack of motion on the rear.

Gord

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stephen Scharf" <scharfsj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 12:15 AM
Subject: [OM] First Arenacross shoot-Holy Smokes!


> I had my first racing shoot for the year on Saturday. The AMA
> National Arenacross round at Sacramento, last Sat. night. I did come
> away with some good stuff, though. Those interested can check out my
> posting  on SportsShooter.com:
>
> http://www.sportsshooter.com/members.html?id=1138
>
> Curious to see what y'all think....
>
> Background:
> Arenacross is a motocross-like event similar to Supercross (which is
> run in a big football or baseball stadium) except it is indoors, and
> in much, much tighter confines. Imagine stuffing a Supercross event
> held at Pac Bell Park inside the Cow Palace, and you'll know what I
> mean. The event was held in the Arco Arena, home of the Sacramento
> Kings Basketball team.
>
> It was a tough shoot. The confines are very tight, and speed of the
> action is furious. Imagine a motocross at some insane video-game type
> of speed. You have 125 and 250cc two-stroke racing dirt bikes in
> really tight confines, going really fast and zig-zagging back and
> forth in the building over the whoop-de-doos and rhythm section,
> bikes crossing one direction and then the other. It's tough finding a
> place to stand let alone take photographs without worrying about
> literally getting taken out by a flying motorcycle. One photographer
> almost had his head taken off by an airborne 65cc two stroke that was
> literally flying sideways when a rider came off a jump and crashed
> and his bike took off through the air. The photographer shouldn't
> have been in spot in that was an impact zone, and the course marshall
> flipped and threw him out there. The course is topped off by a huge
> jump that gets bikes as high as 43 ft in the air. The lighting was
> tough...there were ghastly fluorescents that gave everything a
> greenish cast, and then once the racing started, these incredibly
> bright floods came on that emulated the sun, or so it seemed! This
> mish-mash of lighting plus shooting with flash meant finding a proper
> white balance was really hit or miss. I shot primarily with the
> 70-200/2.8 at ISO 800; it was very tiring and my back was aching by
> the end of the night (started at 7, ended at 11 PM, no rest for the
> weary); there were literally only minutes between races. The action
> is so fast and furious that I shot 244 frames in the first heat race
> of 8 laps....which lasted about 7 minutes!
>
>
>
> -Stephen.
>
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> -- 
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>
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