This was a job I did recently for ION with Rally driver Petter Solberg in the Alsace in France. As well as helping to film the event with camera man Noddy Gowerns incorperating overhead zip wires and a micro heli using only ION Air Pro camera’s, my brief was also to shoot stills. This brought it’s own set of problems as the stills had to show a very small camera on a very fast moving car, also it was a test day staged on tarmac which is quite hard to get any sense of speed as there is very little dust or debris flying around behind the car. So to combat this I used a SB900 flash on camera and used slow shutter speeds in some shots. I also hired a 300mm lens from TFC and shot some on a cropped sensor on my D3x and at times had it lashed to my D300s which gave me around 400mm with the DX sensor. I have to say it’s a fairly hair raising experience having a Ford Fiesta on steroids screaming straight towards you.
