bluebird14
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As the title suggests Im a student at university and Im studying automotive engineering w/Motorsport.
One fine afternoon at Silverstone with some friends I got to have a go with my friends camera taking pictures of various cars at the BTCC event. I really enjoyed it! Even more than watching some of the cars! As I was planning on going to this years WRC event in Wales, used to live in the area and now Ive moved out Im finally going to some stages! So I hastily bought a Canon 550D with the 18-55mm lens and got a great deal on it too. I wont say how much but I got the american model so it says T2i Rebel on it, makes me feel cooler!
Anyways, I go to the event after playing with my camera in my flat for a couple weeks, never got to go out with it, too busy with work! And I was amazed at what I could do with it! I caught the bug so to speak, even got a picture with my idol Ken Block, although unfortunately it was my friend, who knows nothing about photography, so its a bit blurry :/
So I get home and I look through my 2000 pics I took! I realised quite a few were duds but thats why I took so many, i figured the more I took the more chance I had that a few of them would be good. In the end I was really happy, for two reasons. Firstly it was my first time out taking pictures other than my laptop and flatmates (still some decent pictures though
) and second because the WRC cars were travelling at 80mph where I was standing, and only a few feet away so they would come and go in a matter of 3-4 seconds!
But my story does not end there! With the motorsport seasons coming to an end the camera seem to become useless! But then I found out you can take pictures of stuff other than cars! For Christmas I went to Hyde Park in London, took some pictures of the swans and got a friend to take a picture of me as
a gift to my mum. Now she wants me to take pictures on Christmas day! Maybe a few videos also.
Apologies for such a long post! Im here to get some advice not only on taking pictures of fast cars but also some on portraits of family and friends
One fine afternoon at Silverstone with some friends I got to have a go with my friends camera taking pictures of various cars at the BTCC event. I really enjoyed it! Even more than watching some of the cars! As I was planning on going to this years WRC event in Wales, used to live in the area and now Ive moved out Im finally going to some stages! So I hastily bought a Canon 550D with the 18-55mm lens and got a great deal on it too. I wont say how much but I got the american model so it says T2i Rebel on it, makes me feel cooler!
Anyways, I go to the event after playing with my camera in my flat for a couple weeks, never got to go out with it, too busy with work! And I was amazed at what I could do with it! I caught the bug so to speak, even got a picture with my idol Ken Block, although unfortunately it was my friend, who knows nothing about photography, so its a bit blurry :/
So I get home and I look through my 2000 pics I took! I realised quite a few were duds but thats why I took so many, i figured the more I took the more chance I had that a few of them would be good. In the end I was really happy, for two reasons. Firstly it was my first time out taking pictures other than my laptop and flatmates (still some decent pictures though
) and second because the WRC cars were travelling at 80mph where I was standing, and only a few feet away so they would come and go in a matter of 3-4 seconds!But my story does not end there! With the motorsport seasons coming to an end the camera seem to become useless! But then I found out you can take pictures of stuff other than cars! For Christmas I went to Hyde Park in London, took some pictures of the swans and got a friend to take a picture of me as
a gift to my mum. Now she wants me to take pictures on Christmas day! Maybe a few videos also.
Apologies for such a long post! Im here to get some advice not only on taking pictures of fast cars but also some on portraits of family and friends
you've found a nice place to learn as there are plenty of talented people here across all different genres 
