Lola, whose factory is quite close to where I live, had a parade of sports cars in town today, and it was an impressive sight / sound. I’ve never tried to do motion blur before, so this was a good opportunity to try it out for the first time. I’m reasonably pleased as a first effort: I think the keepers below create a reasonable impression of speed, bearing in mind that the cars were doing all of 20mph going past on the ringroad. I’d up the shutter speed a notch or two, as the level of distortion is probably a little south of the limit, and the effect that I was hoping for.

I did think about upping the speed, but got distracted when I hit the limit on the camera’s buffer about 3 consecutive times, which is a real shame. There was no way of anticipating the density of the cars on the parade but next time, I’ll switch from raw to jpeg, and possibly even step down the image size a notch or two, just to make sure that I have more headroom. Until I get my 50d :).