The last two years at the FIA main Event held at santa pod raceway its done one thing and thats rain. This year saw a substantial change in conditions and sun burn was the word of the weekend.
My first time at Santa Pod so I spent friday working out what worked and what didn’t work and how I was going to have to adapt my style to fit the space.
At shakespeare County raceway I enjoy shooting long and using the clean ish background to separate the subject. However the layout of Santa pod with the gantry and the perfectly places Autoglym logo. Ment that the view was never that clear.
However the fuel cars gave me added heat waves which really helped separate the car from the background
Just a shame that the waves didn’t quite get to cover Mr Marshall as he is a little distracting in the frame.
Enough talk down to some pictures
Timo Harbermann in the worlds fastest wipple powered car.
As the sun dropped out of the sky on the sunday I got some light that was just stunning in angle and texture. Would be rude not to take full advantage of it
It then dropped even further and I reached Nirvana (not the punk rock band)
Never a fan of gloss black cars as they are hard to photograph interestingly however the light with a bit of work with the exposure in the camera, gave me something that I oddly like
Monday I spent most of the day unfortunately uploading pictures and sorting bits so that I could meet my very tight deadline. I had everything in the bag that I needed so was under no pressure to shoot on spec. So the little time I had I played around with some different things and really pushing my tecnical limits with the panning.
1/100th of a second at about the 45ft mark with a Injected nitro car, Not bad but I wanna go slower. I need to find away to practice away from the track, and ideas how are welcome
At the weekend I also had some work with ace driver and genrally nice guy Andy Carter. Cant give too much away but I can share this titbit
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rubbish!
Excellent set mate. santa pod is a nightmare to work in and you managed to get some great action shots there. Nice lighting on Andy’s portrait shot too.
s’nice…me like!
rubbish!
Excellent set mate. santa pod is a nightmare to work in and you managed to get some great action shots there. Nice lighting on Andy’s portrait shot too.
s’nice…me like!