Shooting Supercars October 2009

I’m still catching up after a really busy October and finally got some time to clear the decks. Best day of the month without a doubt was the Shooting Supercars Workshop at The Yorkshire Air Museum together with Canon UK and The Flash Centre. The crew from Canon travelled from as far as Kent on the day and brought masses of Canon gear, including the stellar new Canon 1D Mk4, more of which later.

I’ll write a whole lot more about the day over on my Driving Images site, plus we’ve set up a Flickr group for everyone to add their shots and show their work from the day. I was so busy talking about technique and getting everyone shooting that I didn’t shoot very much myself. This shot was rigged right at the end of the day in just ten minutes before everyone left. Some superb assisting by The Flash Centre’s Graham Fox had the Elinchrom’s rigged and ready to go and we managed to get this one. It’s not perfect and the light at the rear sitting on the Manfrotto Hi Hat should really have been behind the Lamborghini, lighting the Ferrari and filling the DB9 shadow, but not a bad effort as a quick example of how to light dirty without a flash meter, just a Mk1 eyeball and a Voice Activated Light stand . More thoughts from the day later, plus my initial excited thoughts on the new Canon 1D Mk4

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