Motorsport shooting tips..

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So i'm attending the world series by renault, which is held at silverstone this coming weekend, going on the sunday so as to catch the racing.

I'm taking the camera with me, and i'll be using the 70-200mm F4 L lens, the lens i have with the biggest zoom. I'm guessing that really, it's not going to be enough zoom for the occasion, but i'll use it anyway.

So, has anyone got any tips on photographing motorsport? As in camera setup/ photographing techniques/ shooting tips?

It'll all be greatly appreciated!

And is anyone else going to be in attendance this coming weekend?
 
Panning with a slowish shutter speed is great.
Using a high speed quite often produces photos of high performance cars looking like they're parked on a track.
The shutter speed you have to choose to blur the background and keep the subject relatively sharp all depends on the speed of the cars
 
Although this is mostly about rallying a lot of it is transferable. Clicky!
 
Main thing you need to do is shoot no higher than 1/250 shutter speed to keep the wheel blurred but the vehicle sharp.
The more confident you get with panning, the slower you can go with the shutter.
Shooting the subject.. there are 2 main ways, either pre-focus of a spot on the track and pan with the subject to that point, remember to keep panning after the shot for a short time.
Or.. stick the cam on continual focus and pan wth the subject and fire off 5 or so shots at a time.
Other toggers opinions may differ from mine but both ways work for me.
This shot was done with continual focus, i know it's a bike and not a car but the principle is the same.
I've got tickets to the renault world series too. not sure if im goin to make it though.
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This is about as close as you can get at Silverstone with a 200mm lens (using my sigma 70-200).

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If it's you first time trying panning I'd start at 1/400 and get slower as the day goes on. I'd prefer to come home with crisp shots that I need to 'blur' with PS than have a card full of 'bluro-binshots'

I'll be there all weekend so take your waterproofs (I seem to attract rain :))
 
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