Indoor Karting - No Flash

[Chrisbie]

I have loads of experience shooting motorsport at Circuits
But
I have been asked to take photos of an indoor karting event, rules include no flash,
Any tips
I feel this could be rather different...

 

[desantnik]

Shouldn't be a problem really... to make carts look good you need to really wind down the shutter speed anyway.

I'd start with something like ISO800, shutter priority, 1/60 and see if that gives you a firing solution. Failing that, start knocking up the ISO a bit, but on a D90, probably 1600 is as far as you want to go! Next step is to drop the shutter even further... Hope you have nice fast glass... like a 70-200 VR.

Flash would have made it look carp anyway

 

[Chrisbie]

thanks for the comments
havent got 70-200VR but I have a ..
50mm 1.8
180mm 2.8
suppose the 300 F4 will be too long
Lighting appears to be a mix of fluorescents and spots plus skylights but it will probably be after dark

 

[desantnik]

Hmmm definitely not the "nasty fifty", dunno about the 180 2.8...

Don't forget to set your white balance to custom if you are shooting with odd artificial light... either that or do it in PP.

 

[Byker28i]

If you can get per is soon to shoot from a marshals post then I've shot fine with a 50mm f1.4 from trackside.
Just checked and I was getting 1/80 or 1/60 at f1.4 iOS 1600. It's generally that dark.