2 more shots of F1 practice

[superstar]

Here are a couple more. I really had to shrink the files down in order to post them. Any tips on improvement are welcome.

Richard

[Matt_P]

Wow.. is that last one near turn 6? Very nice angle you found there. Wish I had found that!

[superstar]

Wow.. is that last one near turn 6? Very nice angle you found there. Wish I had found that!

Yeah I was shooting through the gap in the fence with a lot of other photographers
Richard

[HectorsGTI]

I was one of them. Nice to meet you. :D

Great shots.

[Persian-Rice]

I like the second one, but the one above could help from tighter cropping.

BTW, is it me or did you do massive cropping? image quality seems kind of low.

[superstar]

I cropped a bit, I think the image quality suffered from me shrinking them from 18 Meg files to under 100kb in order to upload them.

The originals looks much better.

Richard

[Matt_P]

Yeah I was shooting through the gap in the fence with a lot of other photographers
Richard

There was a photography hole in the fence by turn 10. A friend of mine camped out there most of the day with a 1D on a monopod with a massive 300mm L Prime. But he wasn't right up to the hole.. no credentials (nearly impossible to get from the FIA unless you shoot ALL F1 races from what I understand). He shot from the spectator's side of hte fence... along with many many others.

I shot mostly from around the hairpin on the viewing mounds on Friday. There was a huge gap in the fencing there... a lot of angles you could find, which was good because the hill was crowded with cameras on monopods ;)

Unfortunately, even with a 1.4x teleconverter, my 70-200 was too short for that spot. And fully extended it didn't seem to focus terribly accurately.. either that or some quality is missed from using the tele with the lens zoomed out fully. Either way, I'm a little disappointed with how most of my photos turned out.