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Photography at the Racetrack
Today's Post by Joe Farace No matter what kind of camera you use, photographing race cars on the track can be a challenge. The typical recipe mixes high ISO, fast shutter speed, and a long lens with a large aperture. Toss in a high frame-per-second continuous shooting...
Bye, Bye Miss American Pie…
Today’s Post by Joe Farace Drove my Chevy to the levee but the levee was dry…—Don McLean I's been more than three years since I sold my Mercedes CLA 250 and, to tell the truth, I don’t miss it very much. Evidently Mercedes Benz agrees with me: As first reported by...
Car Portraits: Photographing a Drift Driver
Today's Post by Joe Farace If you’re in control, you’re not going fast enough.— Parnelli Jones I like to think that there are basically two kinds of portrait photographers: The first one likes to shoot with “available light” by which they really mean “every light...
Scanning Your Old Car Racing Photography Slides
Today's Post by Joe Farace Like Jim Hayes, whose post Preserving Memories at Watkins Glen is worth a read, I have a lot of old images of cars and vintage motorsports action that were shot on 35mm slide film. There are some that I also shot on negative film too and...
Accessories: A Lens Pouch for the Rest of Us
Today’s Post by Joe Farace Back in the days when manufacturers thought we wanted lenses with depth-of-field scales and infrared focusing marks—as if autofocus actually freed us from these technical concerns—they used to include lots of what now many companies think of...
The Shelby 427 Cobra
Today's Post by Joe Farace "I thought it was stupid to have a 1918 taxicab engine in what Europeans like to call a performance car when a little American V-8 could do the job better."—Carroll Shelby Is there a more iconic number in the automotive world than 427?...