Help me avoid any major balls ups on sunday please!

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I am doing my first bit of motorsports togging on Sunday @ Silverstone as a going to do photos for a friend that races in the Golf GTI series.

I will be armed with my 7d, 17-55 and 70-200 lenses.

Any particular advise?

I plan on using centre focus point, shutter priority starting at 1/100 in machine gun mode and decreasing the shutter speed as i gain confidence panning. Am i on the right track or on the wrong planet with this?

Ideas appreciated, a total newbie to this type of photography so anything that will decrease what will be a surely be a low hit count is appreciated.
 
Google silverstone national photos (i think they are on the national) (or look on here) and try to work out where the shots were taken and how (exif) and replicate.

For head on shots (which will be difficult with 200mm at silverstone) keep the shutter speed above 1/250th

For Pans 1/200th and lower. 1/100 is actually pretty slow and fairly hard to achieve without practice.
 
Ok excellent thats a helpful start, will use 250 for approaching cars and 200 for pans decreasing as i get results.

Cheers for that.

I seem to have read a processing guide (fantastic Stuff) by you somewhere on this forum before do you have a link for it?
 
I don't think i've done a processing guide I'm afraid. I've done a few circuit guides - but these are quite out of date now and don't include Silverstone.

If shooting head on, and cannot see any wheels on cars then the higher the shutter speed the better, this will also have the effect of allowing you to bring your aperture down giving a shallower DOF which is generally more aesthetically pleasing :)
 
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