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On Friday I had a good day exploring the circuit ready for race day on Saturday. I took a few photos all with the D3, on Eric's advice. I took the D300 and the D3100 just in case but they didn't see the light of day.
I find Donington a very tough circuit to find a decent vantage point which is close enough to the circuit with the light in the right place. The massive catch fences are a real pain in the photographers backside. I covered 8 miles on Friday walked around the inside of the circuit three times. I took over 600 exposures, the 11 fps was a boon in those conditions using a 300mm MF lens, I was able to focus on a fixed point and wait for a car to come into the focus zone then rip off three or four rapid exposures, usually at least one was sharp.
I found auto ISO was a big help setting the mode to manual and then I had complete control over my parameters, aperture AND shutter speed. The auto ISO took care of the exposure.
When I woke on Saturday I was suffering badly from vertigo. The world was spinning, I looked like a drunkard as I staggered across the paddock! So my photography was curtailed, no further images created as I struggled to recover sufficiently to drive back home.
Here are some my least bad exposures.
D3, Nikkor 18-36 No flash.
D3, Nikkor 300mm f2.8 @ f11, 1/200 Sec ISO200 Very heavy crop.
This is the original before cropping...
D3, Nikkor 300mm f2.8 @ f11, 1/200 Sec ISO200 Very heavy crop.
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Robert.