On bank holiday Monday (29/08/11), some of the main roads in the city centre were closed to create a closed circuit for former F1 champion Jenson Button to do his thing in the street. I had no idea how big F1 was in the UK; apparently 19,000 people showed up to see this particular event. The course was only a mile long. That meant crowds up to about five deep in places despite on/off rain.
Due to the fact I didn't fancy getting there early early in the rain for an sport I don't really care about, I was behind aforementioned crowds by the time it came to the main event.
This meant that I had to take photos blind by mounting my camera on a tripod, manually setting levels for everything (including manual focus point to stop it focussing on the crowd) then raising my arm at full stretch, holding the tripod from the bottom, pointing it at where I thought the car might be and setting the camera off with a remote. Bear in mind that this thing isn't exactly slow moving either. All in all one of the most difficult shots I've ever taken in that I had no idea what the view through the viewfinder was. A sharp picture? No sir, but pretty good all things considered.
Annoyingly, my camera remote died in the process. Not the battery, the remote itself. It's a cheap thing to replace but it's not exactly done lengthy service and I spent just that little bit more on the official model (Nikon ML-L3) rather than the third party one precisely because the unofficial ones are famed for unreliability. Slightly disappointing.
That did sound like a difficult shot. It turned out nice, though!
ReplyDeleteAnd I'm sorry your remote died.. I got mine from ebay some 2.5 years ago for pretty cheap and it still works well. Doesn't work too well at large distances, though, but it's decent for the price.