Rally/Motorsport Photography (help)

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Next weekend im going to be doing abit of photography of a rally on our local promenade, yesterday i bought a Canon EOS 350D SLR Camera with a 18-55mm Lens, HOY 58mm Filter 1B, 2BG Flash Memory Card, Sigma 70-300mm F4-5.6 DG Macro, but in all honestly im totally new to it all so i need to learn all the settings, what settings would you use to shoot rallying/motorsport? also should i be using any particular filters?

Any advise would be appreciate however big/small or should i say if i understand what you mean :lol:
 
I'm not a Canon man but Tv mode controls shutter speed so that's a safe place to start, no need for any filters. Try finding a quite spot near a road and just shoot some passing cars, it will give your panning technique some practice and play about with shutter speeds.
 
foggy4ever said:
I'm not a Canon man but Tv mode controls shutter speed so that's a safe place to start, no need for any filters. Try finding a quite spot near a road and just shoot some passing cars, it will give your panning technique some practice and play about with shutter speeds.
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cheers foggy, will that give me the clear car picture but blurry background or a full clear picture? what will playing with the shutter speed achieve (sorry for the probably silly question)
 
John_G said:
cheers foggy, will that give me the clear car picture but blurry background or a full clear picture? what will playing with the shutter speed achieve (sorry for the probably silly question)
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Your shutter speed depends on the speed of the car, if you are looking for a sharp car and a blurry back ground then it's your shutter speed you adjust.

You could start at around 1/320 and adjust, the lower the shutter speed the blurrier the back ground but the slower you go the harder it is. For head on type shots you can go quicker because you don't see the wheels which when shot too quickly makes the car look static.

Head on 1/320

No66 Liam Griffin by foggy4ever, on Flickr

Side pan 1/125

No28 John George by foggy4ever, on Flickr

1/60

No11 Frank Wrathall by foggy4ever, on Flickr
 
thats very good advise buddy, thank you very much

i just need to work out how to change the shutter speed on it now haha
 
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John_G said:
thats very good advise buddy, thank you very much

i just need to work out how to change the shutter speed on it now haha
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Put the dial in the TV position and spin the wheel behind the shutter button, the shutter range on that camera is 30-1/4000 sec, Bulb

1/4000 being a really fast shutter and 30 being 30 seconds. In bulb mode you can hold the shutter open until your batterys run dry. :gag:
 
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