Practical Photography - UK (2020-01)

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Above Use exposure compensation to

underexpose and silhouette the car.

PracticalPhotograPhy.com 23

Withpassioncomesmotivation
and understandingof a subject,and
to getherthesearea recipeforgreat
im ager y. shooting the things you love
is th en not only hugely rewarding but
a recipe for success, as craig Robertson
(racephotography.net) demonstrates here.
“motorsport and photography have
always been two big passions of mine.
i started racing karts when i was in my
teens, but photography soon took over and
i am now shooting as an Fia accredited
motorsport photographer specialising
in sports cars and Gt racing.
“t his shot was taken at the circuit de
Barcelona-catalunya during pre-season
testing for the 2019/2020 Fia World
endurance championship. it shows the
Ginetta G60-Lt Lmp 1, driven by mathias
Beche, racing through the final corner

ofthecircuitas thesunsets

ov ertheBancsabadell

grandstands.inspiredby

so me of my Formula 1

colleagues from earlierin

th e season, i purposely

underexposed the shot

to capture the golden

li ght of the sun bouncing

ac ross the track as

mathias acceleratedout

of the chicane Racc into

new holland corner,leaving

him almost silhouetted.thepicturewas

edited slightly in Lightroom.i increasedthe

contrast along with vibrance and saturation

to enhance the golden light of the sun,

while the shadows and highlights were

decreased to remove glare from the image

and enhance the atmospheric effect.”

tip

Usea

le nshOOd

Whenshootingintothesun,

a le nshoodis vitalto reduce

glareandlensflareas

lightscattersoff the

frontelement.

# 6 Photograph what

inspires you most

MotorsP ort

Canon 5D MkIV | 400mm | 1/1600sec | f/5.6 | ISO 200