Pointers for European Charity Rally

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September is some time off but I'm trying to get as much advice as early as possible so I can practice more between now and then.

The car club I belong to is running a charity rally at the end of September to raise money for Cancer Research UK, Scottish Cot Death Trust, National Autistic Society, Alzheimers UK and Help for Heroes. We're starting off with an evening meet at the Ace Cafe before heading down to Portsmouth and then eventually to Monaco (and back of course I hope).

Now while it's likely that I'll try and take as much of my gear as possible I'm after opinions of what might be "must haves" for this sort of trip.

Ears open, ego off and ready to go :thumbs: Thanks for any help/pointers/advice in advance :D
 
Will you be mainly participating or photographing?

If participating I'd suggest doing a time lapse.
 
A GoPro or two? travelling in convoy there should be plenty of opportunity for casual road sequences with front- and rear-quarter securely mounted units.
 
Alastair, from what I can see on the GoPro website I'd need to use their cameras with something like a suction mount, would that be right? I think something like an external mount would be a good idea though as I do have a wireless trigger, are other other options?
 
Probably.. I'm winging it here with the stuff I'd do in your position rather than stuff I've tried already.. I'm afraid the TR6 was one of the expensive hobbies that had to go to make way for this one (photography)!

I was thinking video rather than stills. What's the car? does it have options for something in a rear window?

I've used this passenger seat rig for driving shots before:




It should be adaptable for rear seat, side- or rearwindow as well. Camera fired by wireless remote. Manual focus and Av mode.
 
My car is a 1992 Toyota Celica GT4, so no rear head rests to use for gripping and the fronts have surrounds on otherwise I'd contemplate rigging something similar to what is in the top right pic you've shown.l
If I can find something with a suction cup mount like the one the GoPro uses that fits a standard DSLR then that would be a good place to start, so I'll see what I come across in the next few months ;)

Thanks for the thoughts so far :)
 
If you know the route already, research where will be good to stop.

Maybe try to get dropped off by a lead car and picked up by the last car to get shots of all cars coming through.
 
We're in the process of finalising the route now so once it's set in stone I can start looking at stop off points to make the most of opportunities. I'm driving solo at this stage though so wouldn't be able to quite do the latter but I can see me racing off ahead to get to a vantage point ;)
 
Tbh if you're driving solo I wouldn't bother with photography on a road trip. Unless it is the sort of thing that you can set up when you start and not have to touch until you stop.
 
It's for charity with shots going online & (hopefully) into print which will please our various sponsors. I'm trying to get hold of a suction mounts as suggested by Alastair but I' may even resort to getting someone else to (carefully) driving my car so it gets included in any motion shots ;)
 
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