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As a major perpetrator of this issue, I feel I should at least try to justify myself. As others have mentioned, the Dutch angle is often used to add drama, but in my experience, there's more to it than that. For a start, most cars tend to be pretty long and thin, if you're not shooting head-on...

Hahaha cheers mate :D

This depends much more on your personal circumstance than the image quality Primes are great for professionals as they tend to deliver marginally better optics over zooms but obviously, they then need a set covering the full focal range needed for motorsport (which is a sizeable investment)...

:D :D I joked about your Olympus - Yeah they are faked, and yeah I am accredited, and yea they take time and no they are not used for editorial, yeah they are used for commercial and yeah I was right up close :D :D

I have recently moved to a two camera set up... one with a 400mm f5.6 and the other with a 70-200 f2.8 .... my shoulders hurt Also I have no use for UV filters

Very true, but this widely flaunted and rarely enforced (rightly or wrongly)... still doesn’t seem to preclude you from selling pictures to the press as media or as a spectator. The point everyone is actually missing, is that no one buys motorsport photos [emoji23] so it’s all academic... in 10...

Just to be clear I wasn't aiming that statement at anyone in particular :D I dunno I did alright for years behind the fence at Silverstone - I'll grant you it's more difficult with a wider lens, but that just means you need to adapt the way you shoot - sorry i sound like one of those whingers...

Without wishing to wrench open this can of worms, having been lucky enough to work media for the past 2-3 seasons... there is a big misconception about what’s involved in getting accreditation.... ability has very little to with anything, what matters is the number of people that will see the...

I have never heard someone media side complain about a spectators equipment. I’m not sure competition is the right word either... no lens/camera restrictions at any of the UK circuits ive been to, so nothing to worry about.

depends on the shot you want to be honest.... a 70-200 will leave them quite small in the frame, even on a crop body but that's not necessarily bad. Cropped slightly at 560mm on a FF body for reference... Team ABBA with Rollcentre Racing - Mercedes AMG GT3 #88 by Jonny Henchman, on Flickr

Hahaha stop, stop, stop that's too much :LOL::LOL::LOL::LOL: I feel I have to be honest, this Dovizioso shot has been heavily shopped, so don't always trust the EXIF on display... Photography for me is about trying to produce engaging images, by whatever means available. It's not my intention to...

To answer your original ‘paraphrased’ question “with time and patience is it possible to use my existing kit to get professional quality photographs” yes it is.... but many of the somewhat negatively worded responses above are accurate and worth considering carefully. It’s not easy, consistency...

Graphix501 submitted a new resource: Guide to photographing motorsport at Silverstone - Tips, techniques and locations for shooting motorsport at Silverstone (or anywhere else) Read more about this resource...

Glad you found it helpful, sadly the jobsworths can be a pain - I got told off for being trackside whilst wearing a tabard last year by a rent a guard, I had to get him on the radio to the race control to get him to understand that media were in fact allowed to cover the race in front of the...

Thanks for the feedback mate, hope it delivers on further inspection :D