This portrait was shot inside the Press Center of the Most racing circuit of Czech Republic with the EF 300mm f/2.8L USM lens handheld at 1/200 sec. at f/2.8. If I had used an ISO 100 film which I normally do for motorsports, it would have been impossible to get a handhold-able shot like this as the shutter speed required would be 1/50 sec. at the same maximum aperture setting. The next photo, was shot outside the Press Center, from across the paddocks, on the same lens fitted with the Extender EF 2x. Handheld portrait Outside the Press Center     Backlit portrait With fill-in flash The two photos of Malaysian artiste, Sara Loo, were photographed with the EF 70-200mm f/2.8L USM - the first was with extreme backlighting, which I had to compensate by increasing the exposure. The second shot was shot with the help of fill-in flash. These photos were all shot on color negative films, rather than reversal types. The same goes for these four other shots shown below. The first two are portraits of another Malaysian artiste, Mindy Quah, and her Taiwanese counterpart, Coco Lee. They were photographed using bounced flash via the Speedlite 540EZ. Mindy Quah Coco Lee     Norrick Abe in the pit lane (E.I. 400) Front panel of Checa's bike (E.I. 400) In the previous page, there is a photo of a 250cc rider who took part in the FIM Asia Road Racing Championship - most photographers covering motorsports prefer to shoot such an event with either an ISO 50 or 100 type of color reversal or print film. In case the light level drops or the weather turns bad, a higher speed film is necessary for camera-shake pictures. Likewise, the weather can turn bad in other motorsports events as well, especially the Formula One racing and FIM World Motorcycling Championships. While there are photographers who would have ISO 200 or 400 films on standby for such occasions, some prefer to have their ISO 100 films push-processed by one or two stops, also known as Exposure Index (E.I.) Only B/W and color reversal films can be push-processed. Although professionals do sometimes use color print films for this purpose, it is not a recommended procedure by the film manufacturers. There are two types of color reversal films that can be used for push-processing. Almost every color reversal film can be pushed although professional-type is recommended. Certain films are specially formulated to be push-processed and are available in ISO 100 and 400 speeds. The above photos of Japanese 500cc rider Norrick Abe and the front portion of the Yamaha GP bike of Spaniard Carlos Checa were shot on one of these specially formulated ISO 100 color reversal film that can be push-processed up to 3-1/3 stops. << Back to Main . 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 5 .