John Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I don't have first-hand experience at Mid-Ohio (although I hear it's
>a great facility), but you may very well find yourself wanting a lens
>shorter than 300mm. I quite often end up using something around 150mm
>for shooting bikes.
Well, I'll be bringing the SMC-F 70-210 zoom as well. I'm going to have to look
into an 80-200/2.8 if I end up doing more of this kind of thing.
>Admittedly I am usually on the inside of the fence,
>but a lot of the time I'm only a couple of feet away from photographers
>in the general admission area.
Looks like I may have press credentials as I'll probably be shooting for
www.amasuperbike.com
>The best place to get shots of bikes is as they are accelerating away
>from a tight turn, especially if you get there on the first practice
>day. Until they have got the setup exactly right you'll often see
>riders getting the front wheel well off the ground under acceleration.
>
> http://www.motorsport.com/photos/cycle/lsa99/lsa-1-34.jpg
>
>is an example of the sort of thing I mean (that's Miguel Duhamel
>coming out of turn 2 at Laguna Seca).
Hey, come on...I don't need to be told who number 17 is! (*Nice* shot, by the
way)
>That was probably taken using
>a shutter speed of around 1/180; fast enough to get a reasonable
>yield shooting hand-held, but slow enough to blur the background.
>Practice your panning technique on every bike that goes past.
>
>A place where you will be able to use the longer focal lengths is
>if you move uptrack a bit, closer to the corner, and shoot the bikes
>as they get to the apex of the turn, and are head on to you, with
>the riders leaning the bikes hard into the turn. For that you won't
>be able to pan, so you want as fast a shutter speed as you can manage.
>1/500 is OK, but 1/1000 (or faster) is even better. To get those
>shutter speeds with a maximum aperture of f5.6 you might want to have
>something faster than ISO 100 film with you. I usually carry both
>100 and 400 speed film (Fuji Provia for slides, Kodak Supra for print).
Planning on bringing Provia or Sensia 400 for the on-track shots. ISO 100 for
paddock stuff.
Thanks for the tips (everyone who has responded to this query)
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