The King of NASCAR

Sports Photo of the Day

When most people think of the King of NASCAR they think of Richard Petty. On a weekend when the Daytona 500 will occur his name comes up often because of his dominance of the sport. In 1998 thought the King of Rock and Roll made his way into NASCAR. Rusty Wallace raced the inaugural race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway with this Elvis pain scheme. This was a very cool car that I bought as a diecast to have. How can you not love a car with the King on it that goes nearly 200 MPH? I was really thrilled to see the real thing when I toured Graceland in 2006. This was a sharp car that I was happy to get a picture of up close and personal.

Technical Data

As I said I took this picture in 2006 just a couple of months after getting a dSLR. I really had no clue what I was doing so inside in low light like this it was hit or miss as to what kind of a shot I would get. This was one of the shots where I got extremely lucky. Here I performed three steps to clean up this shot. The first was to apply the Matt Kloskowski light sports preset to it. That really seemed to sharpen it up for me. I then cropped the image because I did hot like how I framed it initially. The final step was to get rid of the noise caused by the high ISO. I did not use any third party software. I simply used the noise reduction portion of Lightroom. Sometimes this is all you need, and I completed a fairly simple edit with that.