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Por Fuera Halo

When I use a flash in pit lane, I set it to Rear Shutter, which means that the flash fires just as the shutter closes. For long exposures this is the only setting I use because if the flash fires when the shutter opens, movement in the image appears to be moving backwards. Last night […]

PHOTO.GP FAQ: Friends don’t let friends use Program Mode.

Frequently Asked Question: What mode do you shoot in most often? A friend told me no pros shoot in Program mode. I never use Program mode for one simple reason. As sophisticated as our modern DSLRs are, they can’t read my mind. When you put your camera on P, you’re hoping that it will know […]

PhotoGP FAQ: Motor Sports Photography as a Job

I get emails from time to time asking questions about MotoGP photography or photography in general, and occasionally the answers I give might be interesting to others as well. So when I have time I’ll post those here. Q: I’d like to be a motor sports photographer and am wondering about the business side. Does […]

MotoGP Stories, 2012 at San Francisco Dainese Store

On Thursday, January 24th, I’ll be speaking again at the San Francisco D-Store to share photos and stories from the 2012 MotoGP season. This event was a lot of fun last year, one of the best things for me being the opportunity to meet people I knew only from Twitter and Facebook who were kind […]

CRT Heroes

This, race fans, is Danilo Petrucci, one of the brave souls trying his luck on the future of MotoGP hardware, in his case the doggedly underpowered Came IodaRacing Project machine. Not on a (relatively) zippy Aprilia ART, or a Honda-powered FTR, Petrucci qualifies on the same grid as Casey Stoner and Jorge Lorenzo, and brings […]

A Noob Shoots Surfing

For the sole purpose of possibly getting to photograph surfing and the waves at Bondi Beach, I lugged my Nikon 500mm f/4 lens from SFO to Sydney, along with the rest of my travel kit. (See photo below.) Though my back still aches, it was worth carrying the pack on and off the plane, to […]

So Close and Yet So Far

I took one more trip to Yosemite on Sunday night because of the holiday and the fect that I’ll soon start traveling for the MotoGP season. I figured I might get one more opportunity to capture Horsetail Fall from a different perspective, hoping that the sun’s arc hadn’t passed beyond the narrow range required to […]

Once More Into The Night

T. S. Eliot wrote that April is the cruelest month, but for grand prix fans, it’s November when the season ends. We’re eight weeks away from the final pre-season test at Losail International Circuit just outside Doha, Qatar, and a week after that test, the first race of the 2011 season will take place under […]

5 Things I Learned Last Night About Snow

Never having lived through a snowy winter, there is much about dealing with the white stuff I don’t know. Last night was a great learning experience, for I learned ALL SORTS of things related to snow. Having gone to the eastern shore each night of this current trip to Lake Tahoe, I decided last night […]

Good Things Come To Those Who Wait

How long did it take to make this photograph? About two hours last night to get it just right, plus several trips over the past year to find the right location and perspective, four evenings in the past two weeks waiting for the sky to be perfectly clear, and several months waiting for the above […]