Photographing Race Cars

[jamesev]

I was at a race event at the weekend trying to capture high speed cars and was torn with settings

set at Shutter Priority, at one point I was using 1/1000 which gave me between f8-11, with some lazy panning gave some background blur (to give the impression of speed) and some blur of the tyres however the wheel spokes were reletively stationary / defined

then I took it down to 1/250 / 1/320 and with some faster panning got more background blur and noticed the wheel spokes less sharp / less defined.

what experience have others had with this sort of thing

[RichardTaylor]

See this tute, of mine, on this site.

Panning: Motor sport


Here is one of mine from saturday. (A much larger version is on the flickr page)



Camera Canon EOS 40D
Exposure 0.008 sec (1/125)
Aperture f/16.0
Focal Length 170 mm
ISO Speed 100
Exposure Bias -2/3 EV