Even More Goodwood Festival of Speed 2008 Photos

More photos from Goodwood last Friday, this time from the Rally circuit. The original set of photos can be found here, and the previous set can be found here

More Goodwood Festival of Speed 2008 Photos

More photos from Goodwood last Friday. The original set of photos can be found here.

Goodwood Festival of Speed

I went to the Goodwood Festival of Speed on Friday, had a fab time.

I took many, many photographs, the first of which I'll post here.














Ther rest will follow later.

International Healey Weekend @ Goodwood

More Goodwood Festival of Speed 2006 Photos

Below are a few more photos of the Goodwood Festival of Speed. These were taken by my father on a borrowed Nikon D50. I have to say that it is quite a nice little DSLR, but I'd still prefer a EOS 30D.

If you are wondering why some of the photos are in a strange panoramic format, it is because there were bales of hay in between the cars and the spectators which were perfectly positioned to be in every shot. I've cropped the bottom of the photos to remove the surpuflous hay.









All of the photos above were taken using a technique called panning. It is really simple to do, but takes a lot of skill to master. You set the camera to shutter priority or manual mode and select a suitable slow shutter speed, say between ¹/60^th of a second and ¹/125^th of a second. Let the camera select a suitable aperture or set one yourself if in manual mode. Then, here comes the tricky bit, you pan the camera following the motion of the subject at the same angular velocity as the subject. This keeps the subject sharply in focus, but the slow shuter speed, allows the movement to be captured as well. Try it yourself!



Not having a DSLR of my own I'll have to wait for my film to be processed before I can upload any of my own photos of the cars on the track. I do hope I managed to get a few good shots. I'll post some more photos of Goodwood then as well.