getting a good action shot ---- basic advice?

[marcusbarlo]

Hi all

I am wanting to get some action shots of my car using my brother
as the photographer, he knows what he is doing with the camera
but Ime after any advice for how to go about getting the shots?
without enough money to rent Silverstone for the day ime thinking
a photo on the drive with my brother running past with the camera
on long exposure..... or someting else???
ideas/experience greatly rec,d m

cheers

[Yellabelly]

"ime thinking
a photo on the drive with my brother running past with the camera
on long exposure..... or someting else???"


Why not take it out on the road and let him photograph you driving past....or have I missed something?

YB

[GetCarter]

This was got from the back of a Land rover - we were both doing about 1 mph with a half a second exposure. I then added the fx

[Col 666]

marcusbarlo said:

Hi all

a photo on the drive with my brother running past with the camera
on long exposure..... or someting else???
ideas/experience greatly rec,d m

cheers

Got to be a wind up!

Edited by Col 666 on Wednesday 30th September 09:30

[jon-]

marcusbarlo said:

thinking na photo on the drive with my brother running past with the camera
on long exposure.....

PLEASE DO THIS THEN POST THE PICTURES HERE

(then go and find a big roundabout and get some panning shots like



(click for big)

[marcusbarlo]

marcusbarlo said:

ime thinking
a photo on the drive with my brother running past with the camera
on long exposure...

That my dry joke!! yes basics would be to plonk my brother at side
of road and drive past, the roundabout picture is a great idea
looks cool! thats the kind of idea I was after.

The sitting in the back of the car at low speed ive seen before
this is very affective for creating the speed affect, unfortunately
theres only me and my brother.

Also Ime concerned about logistics of doing it on public roads

thanks for comments guys any more appreciated

[jon-]

You can get anyone with a car to drive you, a friend shot a number of pictures of me hanging out the side window of a Corsa on the A1M

We were doing about 60mph. Example shot:

[Pixel-Snapper]

Whats also handy is if your cousin has a BMW Z4 like mine does.

[marcusbarlo]

Well, I have some photos (one is my new avatar) but the fun was taking them…. I roped my brother in and he took a few shots out of the back of the camera car kindly driven by my wife. Then he got in my car and we went on our merry way for the next shoot (leaving my wife to go and do the school run). I found a large (Mx) roundabout and he chose his location (back to the sun) Anyway as he is taking action pictures of me going around and around the rozzers pull up with blues and two’s flashing and because my brother is laid across the pavement (low shot) they accuse him of looking like a sniper (true trust me) and explain a motor way is a sensitive area sir, we were moved on..

[Simpo Two]

marcusbarlo said:

they accuse him of looking like a sniper

It's not new - a chap using a device like this to photograph Queen Victoria was promptly jumped on by the ancestors of todays' Plod:



More at www.neatorama.com/2006/08/29/the-wonderful-world-o...

Had your chum REALLY been a sniper, you can be sure rather a lot more kerpuffle would have made of it (closed carriageway in both directions, 10 police cars, 5 helicopters and 84 reporters) so they obviously knew he WASN'T a sniper, which rather makes it all silly. Like the security guard who hid (ie moved) my bag and said 'Well it might have been a bomb'...

Edited by Simpo Two on Wednesday 14th October 21:24