Allow me to introduce one of the weekly categories you’re gonna see on Speed Industries, the Photography Friday. These will be posts by our photography team, posting pictures from past or present, which represent memories of events with the team.
For the first installment I thought I’d go back to the very beginnings of at least my team Speed Industries career and post some pics from the very first drift event I’ve been to, an IDS round back in may 2009 at the Nurburgring Fahrsicherheitszentrum. Looking back, it seems like ages ago, although the date doesn’t actually seem that long gone – guess drifting slows down time 🙂
With the experience of just a few hill climbs and slaloms, I was still trying to get to grips with the art of photographing cars at speed and now all of a sudden they came at me sideways – what a experience! One of the positive surprises was that noone seemed to mind us photographers standing right next to the track, so I even ended up trying to do pans with the 18-55mm kit-lens of my old 400D, the only camera I had back then. I got a few interesting shots from those experiments, the majority of my shots I took with my cheap and cheerful 😉 Sigma 70-300 lens. But enough photonerd-speak, let’s go to the car: Just as myself as a photographer, Tobi was still earning his spurs in drifting, using his comparably underpowered but endlessly cool AE86 Corolla.
A ride with him left me completely stunned by the amount of work he had to put in to get and keep this thing sideways! Hats off, as after not too much practice he managed big angle entries into the most challenging corner of the course, a wide corner closing down to an actual hairpin.
Unfortunately, I can’t remember the results of the event, but I know the little Hachiroku gave me my favourite picture of the event, even though it involved something probably unplanned. 😉
And as I’m writing this, I remember the other remarkable thing that happened at that event – a certain white Nissan Silvia crashed on the first day and looked to be out for the weekend. But we managed to literally tie everything that’s absolutely necessary back together and it was out drifting again the next day! And the car’s still going strong today.
That’s it for the first Photo Friday.
Hope you enjoyed it and please comment if you’d prefer a different photo/text ratio next time round. 😉Allow me to introduce one of the weekly categories you’re gonna see on Speed Industries, the Photography Friday. These will be posts by our photography team, posting pictures from past or present, which represent memories of events with the team.
For the first installment I thought I’d go back to the very beginnings of at least my team Speed Industries career and post some pics from the very first drift event I’ve been to, an IDS round back in may 2009 at the Nurburgring Fahrsicherheitszentrum. Looking back, it seems like ages ago, although the date doesn’t actually seem that long gone – guess drifting slows down time 🙂
With the experience of just a few hill climbs and slaloms, I was still trying to get to grips with the art of photographing cars at speed and now all of a sudden they came at me sideways – what a experience! One of the positive surprises was that noone seemed to mind us photographers standing right next to the track, so I even ended up trying to do pans with the 18-55mm kit-lens of my old 400D, the only camera I had back then. I got a few interesting shots from those experiments, the majority of my shots I took with my cheap and cheerful 😉 Sigma 70-300 lens. But enough photonerd-speak, let’s go to the car: Just as myself as a photographer, Tobi was still earning his spurs in drifting, using his comparably underpowered but endlessly cool AE86 Corolla.
A ride with him left me completely stunned by the amount of work he had to put in to get and keep this thing sideways! Hats off, as after not too much practice he managed big angle entries into the most challenging corner of the course, a wide corner closing down to an actual hairpin.
Unfortunately, I can’t remember the results of the event, but I know the little Hachiroku gave me my favourite picture of the event, even though it involved something probably unplanned. 😉
And as I’m writing this, I remember the other remarkable thing that happened at that event – a certain white Nissan Silvia crashed on the first day and looked to be out for the weekend. But we managed to literally tie everything that’s absolutely necessary back together and it was out drifting again the next day! And the car’s still going strong today.
That’s it for the first Photo Friday.
Hope you enjoyed it and please comment if you’d prefer a different photo/text ratio next time round. 😉