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Originally Posted by Cooper
I follow the car with Ai Servo and I trigger when in I believe it's the right time. Like this you can wait for the perfect moment and shoot.
With slow camera's you need to focus on a corner and wait untill the car passes your focuspoint.
I also play with focus points on my 40D like if I have the leading car on the right side and the one following on the left, I quickly put the right focusing point on so the first car is in focus and not the second (or the ground).
I also experiment with light measuring methods and sometimes (mostly jumps) I manually set the aperture and shutter speed.
I also prefer to photograph good racers that hold their line instead of people driving all over the place 
another tip: open your eye that is not in the viewfinder to locate the car that is about to pass the area you are shooting (a couple of corners mosty) or to locate a battle between a couple of cars that is important to have on camera. |
I pretty much tried a bunch of different techniques to see what works best.
I have recently been using AI Servo, Aperture priority and trying to maintain a shutter speed of around 1/500.
I found my self doing the eye open thing alot this past Saturday, it helped alot ha. I laughed when you said that as a tip because i thought it was funny when i was doing it.
Gosh, i cant wait to go to the track again. I want to take more pictures!!!
Every try using a speedlight on camera?
I went to a night event at a outdoor track and lighting was little to none (just enough for the racers to see the track). And so i setup a studio strobe off camera with a portable battery pack. Hahaha it was funny but didnt work out to well. I might try it again some other time but i didnt like it.