Motorsport Autofocus Photowalk

Name: Motorsport Autofocus Photowalk - Session 1
Start: 2020-09-05T10:30:00Z
End: 2020-09-05T14:00:00Z
Location: 543 Dukes Hwy, Tailem Bend, SA, Australia

Image: Alpha 9 (A9)

The Bend Classic 2020 car racing at the world-class Bend Motorsport Park

About the event

We’re going to attend the first day of The Bend Classic 2020, featuring an eclectic mix of historic and significant vehicles.

The Bend Motorsport Park last year was voted the world’s best Motorsport Facility of the Year as part of the PMW Expo Awards in Germany.

Take this opportunity to practice using your camera in various autofocus modes, autofocus areas and shutter speeds to ensure you get sharp photos in the very difficult situation of capturing fast moving cars. The camera’s drive mode gives you options for various continuous shooting speeds to try out. You can also practice the technique of panning with the cars to get that blurred background look.

We’ll be starting with morning coffee at 10:30am in the Apex Lounge (immediately past the reception area in the Welcome Centre), where we can discuss techniques. If you arrive early, there are plenty of exotic cars to photograph on display in the foyer of the Welcome Centre. Around 11am we’ll move to the viewing platform on the 1st floor (far right on the outside of the Welcome Centre building) to photograph the cars on pit straight. Later we’ll move through an underground tunnel to a special vantage point near a couple of bends for more excitement. After that we’ll go for lunch at local facilities.

After we’ve finished you may like to spend some time at Old Tailem Town Pioneer Village just on the other side of Tailem Bend (although this is independent of our photowalk, and just a suggestion).

Depending on where you live, you may have to allow 1.5 hours travel time to get to the motorsport park.

Due to the face-to-face nature of this trip, you will be required to adhere to government regulations for the pandemic that are current at the time of this event.