First time in California and when I showed up, it seemed cold! Fontana is located way east of Los Angeles in a more industrial area near the airport.
First day of work was shooting practice and qualifying. Usually Skip shoots this on the new Sony F3 camera with the prime lenses. One feature of Prime lenses is that they are at a fixed focal length, meaning you cannot zoom with a prime lens. If you want to go from a wide angle to a telephoto angle, you have to physically take the wide lens off and put on the telephoto lens. My job during that time is to carry a small variety of these prime lenses with me in a backpack while following Skip. Depending on the subject matter we encounter, he may want to change lenses a couple times to get different perspectives.
So during NASCAR practice we usually get shots of the cars in the garage, lining up especially the drivers coming out and getting in the cars. Skip tries to find the most creative angles and shots of the drivers. Many times he’ll use slow motion or time lapse of signs and crowds. A few times in Fontana he would set up a shot and then leave, and I would have to stand by the camera until he would come back or the time lapse reached a certain time, usually 15 minutes of so. This was my chance to peer into the viewfinder and study the shot a bit.
Its hard to tell in this picture but it was amazing to me how much detail there was in the shadows with the sun directly behind. This camera really has some great latitude.
During the actual race we would drive around the infield of the track and find shots of spectators. Here we climbed up on top of someone's RV and it revealed a whole other world on this level.
I really neat moment was when a friend of Skip’s who usually shoots on the RED camera brought along a RED EPIC
http://www.red.com/products/epic.
The RED EPIC is not for sale yet but The guys were pretty excited about it.
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