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Stefan Mucke - no66 Ford GT As part of the build up to any weekend on the FIA World Endurance Championship calendar six drivers are invited to the pre event press conference. The drivers could be invited because they are from the host country or they are leading the championship or had a good race in the previous round.  For the 6 Hours of Nurburgring three German drivers were there - Timo Bernhard (Porsche), Stefan Mucke (Ford) and Marvin Dienst (Dempsey Proton Racing).  The other drivers were Anthony Davidson (GBR) from Toyota, Vitaly Petrov (RUS) from CEFC Manor TRS Racing and David Cheng from Jackie Chan DC Racing. As usual I record the press conference on the Fujifilm X-T2 fitted with a 10-24mm f4 lens due to the fact the press conference room is an awkward shape and the camera tripod has to be sited near to the drivers.   The press conference video is streamed on the FIA website via the world governing bodies YouTube channel. I also use the second X...

This weekend I am in Germany for Round 4 of the FIA World Endurance Championship and after the thrills and spills of Le Mans, the WEC returns to the 6-hour format at the Nurburgring. I went trackside during the first two Free Practice sessions yesterday in my capacity as the FIA Media Delegate to shoot some images from various locations around the circuit to check that the access was OK for the other photographers.  I also had to get some images for FIA.com, the official website for the world governing body of motor sport, who I work for on the WEC. I decided that some of the images would look better in black and white so I convert them in NIK Silver Efex Pro2 in post production. All images were taken on a pair of Fujifilm X-T2 using various lenses. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PLEASE SUPPORT THIS BLOG BY VISITING THE ADVERTISERS ON THIS P...

If you read this blog on a regular basis you will be aware that I love the 12:5 panoramic format.  For motorsport I tend to shooting full frame images with this in mind so I can crop in post production or I shoot images using the X-T1 / X-T2s panoramic mode in camera.  However this isn't possible for action shots so all of the images here were shot and then cropped in post production. These were shot at the Nurburgring last weekend with some during Free Practice on Friday and some on Sunday at the start of the 6 Hours of Nurburgring, round 4 of the FIA World Endurance Championship. The race was eventually won by the no1 Porsche of Mark Webber, Brandon Hartley and Timo Bernhard. The images were either shot on the Fujifilm X-T2 and XF50-140mm f2.8 + 1.4x converter or the XF100-400mm f4.5/5.6 or the Fujifilm X-Pro2 + XF10-24mm or XF16-55mm f2.8. ----------------------------------------------------------...

A few images of the LMGTE Aston Martin Racing Vantage V8 from the Nurburgring, Round 6 of the FIA World Endurance Championship. All three images were taken on the Fujifilm X-T2 and the X50-140mm f2.8 fitted with the 1.4x converter. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PLEASE SUPPORT THIS BLOG BY VISITING THE ADVERTISERS ON THIS PAGE By clicking on the adverts you are helping support this blog - thank you. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ALL IMAGES ARE THE PROPERTY OF MACLEAN PHOTOGRAPHIC AND CANNOT BE USED FOR ANY PURPOSE WITHOUT PRIOR PERMISSION MacLean Photographic run Tours and Workshops in East Lothian and the Borders of Scotland.   CLICK HERE  for more details and availability In June 2015 Jeff Carter was named as a Fujifilm ...

The start of the 6 Hours of Nurburgring saw the usual rush to the first corner.  The track in the Eifel is a little tighter than most circuits at Turn 1 and each driver tries to be the first to the inside of the corner to move into the lead. The LMGTE Pro start saw the pole sitter in the no95 Aston Martin go through but on lap 2 there was contact between Richie Stanaway (no97 Aston Martin) and Stefan Mucke (no66 Ford GT) as they fought for second place. I captured this sequence of shots on the Fujifilm X-T2 + XF50-140mm f2.8 + 1.4x converter with the camera set to AF-C (custom setting 3), 8 fps and the exposure at 1/250s @ f10 and 200 ISO. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PLEASE SUPPORT THIS BLOG BY VISITING THE ADVERTISERS ON THIS PAGE By clicking on the adverts you are helping support this blog - thank you. -----------...