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2015 FIA World Endurance Champion Mark Webber (Porsche) While at the recent FIA World Endurance Championship test at Le Castellet in the South of France a short press conference was held to promote the first race of the season at Silverstone on the 15-17 April.  I attended in my capacity as the FIA Media Delegate and took some shots of some of the participants.  However I decided the colour shots were a bit 'meh' so I converted the images to monochrome using NIK Silver EFEX Pro2 software and I am much happier with the results. All of the images were shot on the Fujifilm X-Pro2 and the XF50-140mm f2.8. FIA World Endurance Championship CEO Gerard Neveu 2014 FIA World Endurance Champion Anthony Davidson (Toyota)   Three times World Touring Car Champion and Ford works driver Andy Priaulx ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PLEASE SUPPORT THIS BLOG BY VISITING TH...

When working at a motorsport event it is very easy to get caught up in the 'big picture' capturing that racecar out on track or taking a dramatic image of a pitstop.  I occasionally like to step back from this and look for images that are not the norm or objects that lit by the sunlight. Take the shot at the top of the page.  This was a photocall for the no12 Rebellion Racing crew of Nelson Piquet Jr, Nico Prost and Mathias Beche.  I took some shots from the side on the pitfall and then I saw Rebellion on their race suits and decided to take a close shot of their legs and race boots.  this was captured on the X-Pro2 and XF50-140mm f2.8. The image below was also captured on the same combination of camera and lens while walking back to the pitlane from the multicar photoshoot at the last corner of the track.  The sun was very low in the sky and relaxing off of the red stripes that are painted on the inside of the last corner.  The colours and textures...

Kazuki Nakajima, Toyota Racing As usual during the first day of track action of a FIA World Endurance Championship event we held the pre event press conference with six of the drivers taking part in the 6 hours race.  For here in Japan we chose Kauki Nakajima from Toyota, Andre Lotterer from Audi, Mark Webber from Porsche, Alex Imperatori from Rebellion Racing, Darren Turner from Aston Martin Racing and Andrea Bertolini from SMP Racing. I set up one of the X-T1s on a tripod to video the press conference for streaming on the official FIA WEC website and on social media and used a Nikon ME1 external micrrophone to record the sound. For this press conference I used the XF16-55mm f2.8 lens.  The second X-T1 was fitted with the XF50-140mm f2.8 to take pictures of the drivers so I have a set of still images to accompany the video. Mark Webber sharing a joke with Andre Lotterer Mark Webber, Porsche Team Alex Imperatorii, Rebellion Racing Darren Turner, As...

Yesterday the 4th round of the World Endurance Championship saw a 1-2 finish for Porsche in their home race in Germany.  This was the second 1-2 finish for the German manufacturer of the 2015 season - they won the 2015 24 Hours of Le Mans in June - but it was the first victory for the no17 crew of Mark Webber, Brendon Hartley and Timo Bernhard. As usual I was videoing the press conference on the Fujifilm X-T1 with the XF10-24mm f4 lens and I used the second X-T1 fitted with the XF56mm f1.2 to shoot some stills of the drivers during the press conference. Here is the video of the press conference following the 6 Hours of Nurburgring, round 4 of the World Endurance Championship . The images shot on the 56mm f1.2 were taken with the aperture at f2 or f1.2 at 1/125s to keep the ISO as low as possible (200 ISO) and the results were converted to black and white in Nik Silver Efex Pro2. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------...

Sebastien Buemi - Toyota (6 Hours of Fuji race winner) After the 6 Hours of Fuji on Sunday evening we hold the traditional post race press conference for the top three driver crews followed by a second press conference for the winning crews from each of the classes. The overall winners were Sebastien Buemi and Anthony Davidson in the no8 Toyota TS040 hybrid, with their teammates, Stephane Sarrazin, Kazuki Nakajima and Alex Wurz in second.  The Porsche crew of Mark Webber, Timo Bernhard and Brendon Hartley were third in the Porsche 919 hybrid, their first podium since Silverstone in April. All of the images were shot on the Fujifilm X-Pro1 with the  XF55-200mm f3.5/4.8R OIS lens.  The ISO was set at 3200 because the lighting in the room was such that I had to push the ISO to get a reasonable 1/200s shutter speed.  The quality of the images are, once again, more than just good for such a high ISO. Stephane Sarrazin - Toyota Mark Webber - Porsche ...