Thanks to iMechE, my fellow Mechanical Engineers and I are able to attend to the race at a heavily discounted price of RM30 for Tower seats. I borrowed Aaron's 18-200mm VR lens the night before since I don't have a zoom lens.
Tower seats at where the hairpin is. The long straights into the final corner is said to be the best place for overtaking manoeuvers.
View from Tower 1 where drivers go through the long straight before braking hard into the final corner of the track. Notice the cloudy skies in the picture?
BMW SauberThis is my first time taking photos of a motorsport event. Was noobing because I couldn't get my framing right and my hands were shaky, resulting in many unsharp photos. Having long zooms is really cool.
Lewis Hamilton in the McLaren Mercedes
Robert Kubica in the BMW Sauber
This is the best photo I had for the day.
Caught Heikki Kovalainen spinning off the track in the first lap at turn 4. His brakes got his rear loose and spun when he tried to countersteer to correct the direction of his car.
Was lucky enough to capture a live blown engine in sequence. Only posting this though. Poor Robert.
My favourite driver, Kimi Raikkonen. Massa can go die. Notice the red hot brake disc in the front wheels?
I am a McLaren fan, Kimi for the Championship, McLaren for constructor. If Kimi's not winning, Lewis and Heikki should.
Lewis Hamilton in the McLaren MercedesRobert Kubica in the BMW SauberThis is the best photo I had for the day.Caught Heikki Kovalainen spinning off the track in the first lap at turn 4. His brakes got his rear loose and spun when he tried to countersteer to correct the direction of his car.Was lucky enough to capture a live blown engine in sequence. Only posting this though. Poor Robert.My favourite driver, Kimi Raikkonen. Massa can go die. Notice the red hot brake disc in the front wheels?I am a McLaren fan, Kimi for the Championship, McLaren for constructor. If Kimi's not winning, Lewis and Heikki should.As the race goes on, the lighting was getting bad due to the deteriorating weather condition. I had to constantly up my ISO by a stop from time to time. I even used ISO 1600 at one time but the pictures came out bad =.= The race was later stopped at lap 33 due to the heavy rain. Many cars aquaplaned into the gravels and I couldn't capture it :( Need at least a 70-200mm f/2.8...
That's all for now. Back to my thesis writing. Wanna re watch the race again but no time :( My first F1 race live = super fun! :D Wanna go again next year :)
That's all for now. Back to my thesis writing. Wanna re watch the race again but no time :( My first F1 race live = super fun! :D Wanna go again next year :)
Credit to Cwken
April 13, 2009 at 6:33 AM
awesome pics and story bro!!
keep it up!!
April 13, 2009 at 8:45 AM
brilliant pics man
April 13, 2009 at 10:10 AM
Great pics!
April 13, 2009 at 12:15 PM
whoa. that was cool
and i thought i was tempted by the DSLRs on show during PC fair... now this is what i call tempting!
April 14, 2009 at 5:01 AM
wow ~!!!
i felt liek wanna buy a DSLR too ~!!!
and
hey ~ i'm GReGory from UNIM ~!!!
anyone need a housemate next semester onwards ??
tell me on my chatbox in my blog ok ? thx you very much :P
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