British Grand Prix advise

Lot of food for thought there Dirk, thanks, your website is a great place to inspire/steal ideas from

I'll have to keep it much less organised than you do, I don't do complexity that well

I'm thinking two RFs 12 and 50 with a 35 in the bag, F3 with a 300 and a 135 in the reserve, all 400 asa negative film so I don't have to think too much about exposure; I have a helper, my son, so it shouldn't get too onerous to carry about
 
Hi Stewart
The hospitality tents / buildings are on top of a banked area so you have a good clear view over the fence from the top . If you want to get closer then you will have a wire fence to shoot through
 
Sparrow said:
Lot of food for thought there Dirk, thanks, your website is a great place to inspire/steal ideas from

I'll have to keep it much less organised than you do, I don't do complexity that well

I'm thinking two RFs 12 and 50 with a 35 in the bag, F3 with a 300 and a 135 in the reserve, all 400 asa negative film so I don't have to think too much about exposure; I have a helper, my son, so it shouldn't get too onerous to carry about
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Ahh Stewart, you know, we, ze Gerrrmanz like to do ze organise ;-)

I am not sure about cloudy, rainy Silverstone this year, but 400 ASA is plenty fast.
I always hit into trouble, if race day is sunny. Got myself some 4 stop NDs for that (after this year's Shanghai GP, which was ok, as it was full wet anyway).

Oh btw, I loooove to shoot wet races - spray, reflections, action, …

Looking forward to your shots!

One last, that comes to mind:
- if you find a grandstand, directly at the race line, without gravel inbetween - go to the most upper ranks and try, to catch some cockpit shots ;-)

Jenson Button - fly by
 
menos said:
Ahh Stewart, you know, we, ze Gerrrmanz like to do ze organise ;-)

I am not sure about cloudy, rainy Silverstone this year, but 400 ASA is plenty fast.
I always hit into trouble, if race day is sunny. Got myself some 4 stop NDs for that (after this year's Shanghai GP, which was ok, as it was full wet anyway).

Oh btw, I loooove to shoot wet races - spray, reflections, action, …

Looking forward to your shots!

One last, that comes to mind:
- if you find a grandstand, directly at the race line, without gravel inbetween - go to the most upper ranks and try, to catch some cockpit shots ;-)

Jenson Button - fly by
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Ah yes ... but not on zis occasion, BTW what dose schadenfreude actually mean? ......... 🙂

OK the build up






 
and some pics of the fence

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and a drunk

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Steward - nice, you share some of the scans ;-)

Those jets look great! Colors, composition - everything!

Regarding the cars - it seems, you didn't catch the easiest position, to shoot them - looks like a right hand turn apex, meaning cars are constantly changing speed, making proper panning difficult.
Also, you could not open up the aperture/ stand close enough to the fence/ pan with slow enough shutter speeds, as you would have needed for the fence to vanish.
You shot them faster than 1/250 (the wheels show 1/500 at a guess), which I consider the bare minimum, to eliminate fence at up to 2m distance from the front element.

Anyway, you came back with some great shots ;-)

These points above can be tackled much easier with trial and error, using a digital camera and visiting every training from Fri - Sun ;-)
 
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