Low lightr rc car action photography

[mobile chicane]

Went to cml raceway yesterday to try out my new 55-200 lends, the weather could best be described as bloddy rubbish but I had a go regardless.

It seems that I can get dark grainy pictures which do have the moving rc car in reasonable focus or lighter pictures which leave the car blured ( my panning tecnique obviously needs improvement ) I tried using low F numbers where the camera apeture is wide open, these gave good light but the depth of field was to shallow to get anything unless I got lucky.

I didnt try to change the iso speed from 800, this may have been my mistake.

any hoo heres a couple of the best from yesterday.











I like the water rooster tails I'm getting torm the tyres and I suspect I could get a clearer better definition with a closer shot but I think I would need more natural light to get that detail.





And finaly ryan wondering where his car is


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for my rather rubbish photo stream