Hi All

As some of you know, as a professional commercial photographer operating in and around Edinburgh, I also do motorsport photography in addition to my specialism of corporate conference photography in Scotland.  The season for motorsport photography has started and part of this is photographing the Supercar events in East Fortune, Edinburgh and Fife.  I also use this time to get some precious infrared Supercar photos at the event locations.  However, today, I thought I would share a few Supercar tips with you all.  So here they are:

1. This is the most important one, you must use a polarising filter, otherwise you will not be able to identify the drivers.  You may as well go  home without a polariser

2. Dress for bad weather, this is Scotland, you can’t take all the photos from your car, the best ones will be when you are more flexible and outdoors.  This also goes for the sun, hat and sun tan lotion are essential, especially if you are outdoors for as long as 9 hours

3. Try out different angles and positions, crouch, stand up, try different speeds etc.  You don’t want the client to get identical shots

4. Try some panning ie moving the camera and lens parallel with the subject, it creates a creative blurred background 

5. It may sound obvious but if you neglect it, this can be what pushes you over the edge, especially if you are out for long periods - take plenty of food and juice, water etc, you may not get a break and the refreshments if there are any are likely to be expensive and or poor.  Also and this is a must for me, headphones and music

Hope that helps

Until next time

Kind Regards

Colin

Colin Wright Photography 

www.colinwrightphotography.co.uk

www.edinburghphotographer.com