Fernando Alonso (Renault) exiting Copse

Taken at british GP in July.

I personally think it might have been better without the ends chopped

off but these cars are fast and It was my 1st GP so mustn`t grumble.

Steve

Excellent pan. I like the angle a lot too.

Great image the colors are great. Great use of panning.

Excellent work..!!

Beautifull pan!

I shoot photos of cars at a local track and can't seem to do well with digital, with panning and auto focus seems out of focus. Did you use a manual mode or auto to do this? Granted, mines only a simple digital. This is great.

Shutter speed: 1/125 sec

Aperture: 11

Exposure mode: Tv

Flash: Off

Metering mode: Evaluative

Drive mode: Continuous frame: 1

ISO: 100

Lens: 70.0 to 200.0 mm

Focal length: 200.0 mm

Subject distance: 22.86 m

AF mode: AI Servo AF

Image size: 2160 x 1440

Image quality: Fine

White balance: Auto

Saturation: Normal

Sharpness: Normal

Contrast: Normal

Custom Functions:

CFn 2: Shutter release: AE lock; AE button: AE + AF

CFn 4: Tv/Av and exposure level: 1/3 stop

 

Hope this helps

 

Steve

 

PS thankyou all for your comments

Not bad for a first try at shooting F1 cars. Pity the ends are cropped because everything else works really well; colours, background blur, angle etc.

 

I find 135mm (on a D60) is plenty long enough to shoot single-seaters. Better to have too much background and crop than to miss bits off.

 

Would also suggest you up the shutter speed to around 1/200 or 1/250 to pan F1 cars (Copse is pretty quick after all) which will increase the success rate as you'll cut the risk of shake.