If anyone ever reads this, use servo mode focus instead of single. You'll get more in focus as it moves with the car. 1/40th to 1/50th is the sweet spot for most speeds. Pay attention to the background still and set focus in one spot and get the car to move to it with hand signals. Freeways are an awesome place to get them if no traffic. And more lanes to separate to get more room in the frame.
I found that an easy way to learn is to use 2 cars on a motorway or dual carriageway. That way you can set cruise control on both cars while in different lanes to give you a bit of time (traffic dependant of course) to get a feel for what settings work for you. Also means that you can shoot from the front passenger window which gives a little more space.
I've found sitting and shooting out the boot has really helped me....I get a lot less wind interfering with the lens and the shooting angles are great. Oh and another awesome video as always!!
I'm hoping to try my hand at rolling shots this season. I shoot a lot of power boat events and over the years have mostly used fast shutter speeds to freeze the action. But often there are spectator boats and other distractions in the background. The last couple of seasons I've been shooting a fair amount of panning shots as well, the motion blur removes a lot of those distractions and also shows the speed. Shooting fast boats from a moving boat is another level of difficulty in that you have movement on the vertical axis of the subject and the chase boat, waves to contend with, and when you're at an event, the light is often in the wrong place. I'm shooting a 7D2 with 70-300 and an R5 with 100-500, so the longer focal length is harder to stabilize. But to find those 20 or 30 awesome images out of a couple thousand a day....priceless :)
I think I took maybe 3 photos of my Bentley Arnage when I had one, I never took a video of it, I enjoyed driving it, however lots of other people liked taking pics and videos of it. I guess when you own an expensive car you don't need images of it!
I’m going to try this at some point, but I think a quiet dual carriageway early in the morning would make life easier than a single carriageway road like you were using. Also, getting the camera vehicle to drive at 60mph and have the other car overtake might get you in some degree of trouble if you were actually to say that in a YT video…….oh.
Wouldn’t it be easier if car A and car B would ride at the same speed? In this video it seemed hard to do rolling shots when car B is faster and passing car A?
I thought the same, but I think they were on a one lane road and didn't want to stay on the opposite lane, so the Ferrari had to overtake. They probably could have stayed side by side for a moment tho
DONT TRY THIS. 1 in a 1000 will be sharp, if front is in focus, back part of the car will be blurry.....if anyone read my comment, please dont. MY TIP for rollers...keep the same speed, dont let other car overtake like in the video, always wear camera strap around your wrist, and yes...try to do this on the wider street (highway if possible.)
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Hey Mark, nice video and edits on the photos to, have you considered using a normal ND instead of a vari? I have found they can be pretty ugly on sky's when using a vari with a polarizer
