Race park

hello guys! I was just hired in one of those Race parks to

photogrphe motorcycles,vintage,and Karts racing and I was wondering

if you could give me some tips on how to acomplish the best

pictures,when it comes down to equipment and tecniques.

I have a 10D,24-70 2.8,85/1.8,17-40/4,and 50/1.8. I think that I

have to buy some telezooms but I wonder which focu-leght would be

best? do I need a monopod or a tripod would be fine? is the 10D good

enough? would you shoot in JPG or RAW since RAW would lagg a little

to take pictures?

 

they ask me if I knew Photoshop and I do know photoshop to about

above average but I am not an expert.To what extend do they use

Photoshop and what would be expected to know?

 

Any help would be greatly apreciated thank you

The racing you'll be photographing allows you to work pretty close but you'll definitely need a tele zoom, probably about an 80-200, preferebly an F2.8. Along with your 24-70 that should be all you need to carry. I always found the monopod to be more of a hindrance than a help but that's personal preference. You can pretty much forget a tripod. Don't know when you'll be working but since most racing is at night you'll find a high powered, fast recycling flash essential, most shoe mount flashes just wont cut it. I'd shoot in strictly JPG, not RAW, as speed is everything when shooting racing, and you won't be doing much fine art photography. Good Luck!!

Hi there.

 

I shot motocross races mainly (check www.motocross.fot.br for photos), and ocasionally other motorcycle events (http://200.228.103.103/officialsuzuki/ these were taken last weekend at Interlagos). Most of my motocross photos were taken with a 10D and a 70-200 f/4L, shot in jpeg (I shot 3000+ pics every weekend, so RAW is simply not practical). The 70-200 f/2.8 (I really don't care much about IS) would be better, but I'd rather keep the f/4 and spend the money in another camera body or in a 300mm lenses. I always take a 50mm f/1.4 and a 28mm f/1.8 with me; if I had it I would take the 17-40 f/4L (which I used a couple of times and loved). At Interlagos the 70-200 was a little short, so I used a 1.4TC and also a 500mm f/4L on some races (a dream lenses, but you need a very strong back to carry it around).

 

As for photoshop, all I do is some minor exposure corrections and some sharpenning. Hope that helps.