Photo Galleries from the High Limit Racing and USAC Racing’s 4 Crown Nationals weekend at Eldora Speedway broadcast LIVE on Floracing.com.
If you would like to see more or purchase from this event, please visit:
Friday Gallery: https://photos.nicolesignor.com/2025-Race-Season/4-Crown-Nationals-Eldora-2025/9-19-2025-4-crown
Saturday Gallery: http://photos.nicolesignor.com/2025-Race-Season/4-Crown-Nationals-Eldora-2025/9-20-2025-4-crown-nationals
Good stuff !
After 50 years of shooting just about everything, most of my portfolio is filled with shots of racing mistakes.
That’s how to develop a beautiful portfolio. Using flat-out (in camera) goofs and inadvertent things you couldn’t control, are great lessons in how to be more methodical before a shoot; and how to position yourself to eliminate the unexpected. As well, they teach creative workarounds in post, and how to use those unforseen errors (someone waving a program) as composition elements to add unique interest, or give you new shot ideas.
I like your use of closeup to longshot range. Especially when you nail the pan of the car on the far right, and cover most of the frame with the blurred surroundings. It provides a great setting of the scene.
Use of range can really help define the order of your portfolio, especially in print.
Perhaps other things I like about your work could be better enumerated in another email.
Now, I do have a pet peeve about every racing photographer’s work. And that is the supposed viewer’s interest in the back of a racecar. The number of photographs I have seen published from that angle between Indy programs from the ’20s, to vintage racing programs of today, is insulting.
It is the result of it done purposefully, that I noticed in your collection, or obviously, because the photographer doesn’t know, or have the reflexes, to correctly pan a car directly in front of them.
Do as you will. But if your intent is to show the entire car, please consider not showing clients a car that is obviously past you, or submit one for publication.
Learning that one shot, without backing up, may be what separates you from the flock of amateur-looking work getting the Ooooooos and Aaaaaaahs !
A lot of your work is definitely cool and I really like it.
Maybe I’ll address another of my pet peeves, only for professional purposes, that will give you another step up again.
Until then, keep having the time of your life !