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Here are a few from Saturday and Sunday at the Grand Prix - plenty to process, but not enough time yet:

Alonso in P3, Saturday - 70-300mm VR:




Lonely Canon/Ferrari Man - 85mm f1.4:




Rosberg in Q2, Saturday - 70-300mm VR:




Button in Q2, Saturday - 70-300mm VR:




Vettel in Q2, Saturday - 70-300mm VR:




Perez in Q1, Saturday - 70-300mm VR:




Liuzzi in Q2, Saturday - 70-300mm VR:




Petrov in the race, 85mm f1.4:




Hamilton in the race, 70-300mm VR:



Only another 900 to look through (!) - a very high %age of keepers, even panning with the 'slow focussing' 85mm Cream Machine

Great pictures! Do please share some more when you've looked through them.

The picture of Petrov is very cool, i love how you can see the front tire is locked.

I'm not familiar with this track, but can you get close to that tunnel at the end of the pit? The noise down there must be terrifying.

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Great! Looking forwards to more
F1 cars always look great, but even more so under the floodlights! The Petrov shot is indeed very cool How was photographing under the floodlights? How dark/bright is it?

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Thanks janern.

For the shots accelerating over the finish line I was shooting at around 1/500th to 1/640th second with auto ISO. At dusk, and before the floodlights overpowered the ambient light, that meant getting up to ISO4000-5000 to maintain shutter speeds.

Once it got darker, the shots going into turn 1 were shot at around 1/400th second with suto ISO shooting at around ISO400-640.

Maldonado in the Williams, 20 minutes into the race.

ISO4000, 1/640th, f8 with the 70-300mm VRII

Rosberg braking before turn 1

85mm f1.4 @f2, ISO360, 1/400th second

Button turning into turn 1

85mm f1.4 @f2, 1/400th, ISO560

Didn't know the 85mm 1.4D could focus and lock this fast (I guess your panning technique is excellent) although I've seen the lens working on a D3 and D600.

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great shots and love the dof you achieved. sharp and great focus !

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