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Just to prove that I did takes some shots of the cars.

Mark Skaife, of the Holden Racing Team


Craig Lowndes, of Team Vodafone


Mark Skaife, of the Holden Racing Team, closely followed by (I think) Paul Radisich, of the Team Kiwi Racing


Jason Richards, of the Tasman Motorsport Team


The last two were taken through a tiny hole in the fence.

More shots in my gallery. No flames though...

Daniel

This is nice work Daniel.
Regards Colin

Where'd ya find the gaps in the fences?!!

beetleboy wrote:Where'd ya find the gaps in the fences?!!

I had that problem - I walked around the track for hours today without much luck

hart wrote:

beetleboy wrote:Where'd ya find the gaps in the fences?!!

I had that problem - I walked around the track for hours today without much luck

It's not easy. The first two shots were from where cars enter and leave the track. They always face away from where the cars come from (for safety).

Later I tried shooting through the fence. Get as close as you can, zoom in as far as you can, and use the widest aperture.

I then noticed there was small break in the fence. Six little squares of the fence had become one larger rectangle. It was tight shooting. If I moved too much I would get the fence in shot again.

Daniel

Well I learned one thing this weekend - 200mm isn't enough to get through the fences properly at the Clipsal 500. This year the distance between the fences and the crowd barriers were greater than ever, almost twice that from last year. Very annoying.

Something else I noticed - at every vantage point I found where there were large gaps in the fences (for tow trucks to enter and the like), race staff were constantly standing in the way of spectators/photographers and the action - it felt intentional, almost like they were under instruction to obscure the view on purpose. Example:

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/allandrick/409756451/" title="grrr"><img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/127/409756451_73728738d4.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="grr" /></a>

After these guys got sick of me taking their picture, they moved a whopping great tow-truck into the space instead, completely blocking both my view and that of about 30 angry spectators.

Overall I'm disappointed with my shots from the Clipsal, but it was a learning experience nonetheless. Getting a head-cold on Friday didn't help. I'll try harder next time!