Hi! Just joined up after a week or so of browsing various photography forums. I joined here as I am blown away by the quality of some of the work here.
I am from Surrey and have only recently started to get into photography, mainly for motorsport as I have a keen interest.
I picked up a Canon EOS 550D at a bargain price a few weeks ago and since then I have been hooked! Since getting the camera I have attended 3 track days and each time the pictures appear to come out slightly better than the time before. I also picked up a zoom lens to help get closer to the action!
I am getting the hang of panning with the cars to capture the movement, but I haven't quite managed to get the hang of the lighting and how to avoid high contrast from sun glare without seriously underexposing the shot. For example, I took some shots a few days ago. There is only place to stand without a fence in the way and the sun was at approx 2oclock. The overall shot was exposed properly but the sun glare completely wiped out the windscreen on a lot of the pictures and and the white cars a lot of the detail was wiped out. I tried in all the different metering modes but the shots still come out over exposed.
Do any other motorsport photographers have any suggestions?
I am from Surrey and have only recently started to get into photography, mainly for motorsport as I have a keen interest.
I picked up a Canon EOS 550D at a bargain price a few weeks ago and since then I have been hooked! Since getting the camera I have attended 3 track days and each time the pictures appear to come out slightly better than the time before. I also picked up a zoom lens to help get closer to the action!
I am getting the hang of panning with the cars to capture the movement, but I haven't quite managed to get the hang of the lighting and how to avoid high contrast from sun glare without seriously underexposing the shot. For example, I took some shots a few days ago. There is only place to stand without a fence in the way and the sun was at approx 2oclock. The overall shot was exposed properly but the sun glare completely wiped out the windscreen on a lot of the pictures and and the white cars a lot of the detail was wiped out. I tried in all the different metering modes but the shots still come out over exposed.
Do any other motorsport photographers have any suggestions?
