Memorable pictures from the track don’t always require the photo vest and corresponding heavy lens–which usually comes with an aching back.
[Insider cheat: How to take race photos without press access]
How so? Concentrate on the short game.
During IMSA’s recent pre-season testing at Daytona International Speedway, I kept it light and simple, just carrying a Fujifilm X-Pro3 …
Everyone who's ever switched to doing something bizarre and inexplicable when you're working on a car and a photographer points a camera at you now has a new final boss to beat: "doing something on a laptop that doesn't require a wired connection while underneath a Mustang apparently only supported by air jacks" guy.
In reply to GameboyRMH :
He's winning at hide and seek. They totally don't see him under there.
I'm a sucker for those kinds of photos.
Not to toot my own horn (or my friends'), but just look at this framing!
Dust in the distance, frantic last minute rewiring in the middle distance/center frame, and Official Rallycross Hat hanging from the jack handle in the foreground
In reply to Pete. (l33t FS) :
Paris and I had a pit lane discussion about that. I call it fake telephoto–when you use something in the foreground to force the eye to the subject in the background.
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