Motorsport Photography

[illektronik]

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[10d]

Nice pointers here! I think we also need pretty long lenses for this.

[10d]

For Wakefield, you definitely need a 300mm. Robby used my camera with the 200mm and it is just not long enough.

[10d]

But you can't get around Wakefield. It only has 1 place to shoot. The straight.

The writer is referring to much larger tracks with vantage points is multiple locations. There's no way even a 300mm would see you shoot anything up at the top of Wakefield. It's not to be taken literally for all scenarios. They're pointers bud. ;)
You have to excuse me. A 300mm with 2x extender. Also you can shoot the first right hand corner from near the control tower. Don't you have the shots, buddy?

[10d]

Unfortunately, none. Fried SSD. Remember?

[zz2]

thats for the awesome link John!

[Tinto]

Great pointers on settings and composition - thanks for posting it up!
I always expect to have 90% crap shots when shooting motorsport :)
that way I don't end up disappointed, but chew through batteries.
Canon image stabilising lenses usually operate in two ways too... Either pan mode or multi- directional. Pan is obviously best in this case.

[Frenchie]

Great reference/info John !! now time to learn.