Random thoughts of a not very modern man
A family friend competes in the No Limits club bike championship (http://nolimitsracing.co.uk/) which had it’s first meeting at my local track, Snetterton, on 24th / 25th March 2018. I went along on the Sunday (25th) with the big Sigma 150-600mm to see
With all the images I took at Swaffham of Damian’s car when he was there for pre-season testing, I liked the results of the tweaks I’d made in Lightroom but now I wanted to produce some proper “poster” style images, something more
On a very (very) cold Sunday I went up to Snetterton to watch my step-son and his friend take the track bike out for a spin, this being a Track Day where anyone who wants to (and is prepared to pay the
I went to Swaffham Raceway on Saturday to take some photos of my step-son’s Legends race car. I shot them all in RAW so that I could spend some time post-processing them in Lightroom, and for the most part I’m really pleased
At the weekend I went to Swaffham Raceway, where my step-son and his friends had booked in for a practise session in their Legends racing cars. Legends is a formula within UK Oval Track racing, and prior to the start of the
Went for a drive yesterday (Sunday 4th Feb 2018), hoping to photograph Seals at Horsey beach in Norfolk (as had heard mention of them a few times recently) with my new Sigma 150-600mm Contemporary. But when we got there the Seals were
This is one of those occasions where different photographers will have different opinions about what modes to use in which scenarios, so this is my take on the subject rather than a definitive guide. Also, everything written here is from the perspective
First of all a disclaimer, this post isn’t me, as an expert motorsports photographer, explaining what settings one should use for motorsports photography, this is me as a complete novice explaining what settings I think I should be using and my reasoning
To take a correctly exposed photograph (i.e. not too dark and not too bright), a camera uses a combination of “aperture” and “shutter speed” to determine how much light hits the sensor, “aperture” being the size of the hole in the lens
I bought my Nikon D3300 from Currys as it came bundled with a zoom lens and I knew I’d need one, my main hobby being motorsports, which generally requires a zoom lens to get close enough to the action. The camera came