Anyway, here's a another shot from Copse showing how well a pan works at this spot.
This was shot at f6.3 and 1/500th which is a bit much for a regular pan but about right for an F1 car travelling at 200mph.
After I got enough at Copse (I really don't understand those photographers who stay in the same place shooting a thousand frames of the same thing!) I moved down to Maggots/Becketts which is fairly limited for photography due to the speed of the cars and the proximity of the track. However I was sure I could get something and decided to go for some rear end shots which would show the forces working on the car as it cornered.
This is a difficuly place to shoot from simply because you are very close to the track so you can't follow the cars through the viewfinder so it was just a case of prefocusing on a section of the track and making sure I hit the shutter just at the right moment, which was usually just as the car entered the frame, any later and the car would have been long gone.
Not a bad effort in the end and the sparks give it a little bit more interest. This was shot at 1/1250th which was just enough to capture the car.
Becketts also has a few opportunites for panning such as this:
1/320th at f8.
Another good spot is the exit of Club which if you are prepared to sit in the mud you can push your lens right up to the fence and get shots like this:
1/500th, f10.
Failing that you can stand on the banking and shoot over the fence for stuff like this:
1/500th, f10.
Further along the track you get to Abbey Chicane which offers more opportunities for pans.
1/160th, f9.
A great opportunity here is on the exit of the chicane but unfortunately does need a fast lens as you are shooting through the fence which is several metres in front of you. This was shot at f2.8 and 1/1250th.
All images © JWB Photography 2009
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