You like it fast, don’t you? Fast and dirty. Motorsports, baby. Horsepower, metal, poly-carbonates, dirt, hydrocarbons, speed. Like me, you know how to set your aperture in relation to shutter speed, pick an upper max for auto-ISO, and try not to screw up the composition.
Lucky you, Roberts is proud to co-sponsor a workshop at Lime Rock Park in Connecticut with an option for one day or two days attendance where you’ll get to work with the best Motorsports photogs in the business and have access to some extra Nikon gear. Hit the jump for the full press release.
Press ReleaseWorkshop contact: Renea Topp / 860.435.5000 / renea@limerock.com
Shoot to Win: Lime Rock Park’s First Motorsports Photography Workshop LAKEVILLE, Conn. (July 27) – Lime Rock Park, the noted road-racing circuit in northwest Connecticut, is offering for the first time in its 54-year history a Motorsports Photography Workshop. A true hands-on school, the workshops will be held during one of Lime Rock’s biggest, most prestigious events; Historic Festival 28, the annual Labor Day weekend (Sept. 3-6) vintage speedfest. Workshop students will have no less than 30 different qualifying and/or race sessions during which they’ll practice the art and science of racing photography, under the tutelage of three of the most respected sports and racing “shooters” in North America. Enrollment will be limited to maintain a 12:1 or less student-instructor ratio, and there are one- and two-day sessions offered over the race weekend. Nikon Professional Services will offer on-site technical assistance and will have its professional line of cameras and lenses for the workshop participants to use and evaluate. “It’s no news flash that Lime Rock Park is one of the most beautiful venues in North America,” says Rick Dole, one of the instructors and the person to whom credit must go for bringing the idea to track owner Skip Barber. “Lime Rock is small as race tracks go, so it’s extremely easy to get around. Yet it offers an unbelievable variety of angles, backgrounds and compositional choices. I can’t think of a better facility for a racing photo-school than Lime Rock.” The workshop is not an advanced school for working pros. Rather, it’s designed for “experienced” novices as well as advanced-intermediate photographers that want to learn the secrets, skills and techniques needed to successfully shoot the world’s fastest sport. Each student must own a digital SLR camera with interchangeable lenses and understand the essential fundamentals of still photography.
“A lot of Lime Rock fans who are also serious amateur photographers have been asking me about doing something like this for years,” says Barber. “We’re happy to have gathered the resources to make this happen – the right way.”
The students’ best work will be published on limerock.com and other media. The one-day is $500, the two-day is $900, and there is also a one-day digital workshop ($100). More information and the application can be found at www.limerock.com/photo, or by calling 860.435.5000. Instructor backgrounders:
George Tiedemann can claim 30+ years covering motorsports, and has been a contract photographer for Sports Illustrated and ESPN the Magazine. George has covered more than 25 Daytona 500s, 20 Indy 500s, 4 Olympic Games, and numerous Super Bowls and World Series, and is a contributing photographer to Corbis Photo Agency.
Robert Laberge photography has been published in Sports Illustrated, Time Magazine, ESPN the Magazine, the New York and Los Angeles Times, USA Today, RACER,Autosport and many others. Through the years, Robert has covered events such as the Indianapolis 500, the Daytona 500, the Stanley Cup Finals, NBA Playoffs, PGA and LPGA events, NFL games, the Rose Bowl, the Tour de France, the Salt Lake City Olympic Winter Games, the 2004 Athens Olympic Summer Games, and the 2006 Torino Olympic Winter Games.
Rick Dole, a contributing photographer to Getty Images, has been shooting the racing and automotive industries for more than a quarter century. He’s covered the Le Mans 24 Hours 14 times, the Indy 500 a dozen times, and the 12 Hours of Sebring more times than he can count. Both the French and U.S. Open tennis championships are on his C.V., as well as the Beijing Summer Olympics. Rick’s photographs have been published in Sports Illustrated, the New York Times, Newsweek, Vanity Fair, F1 Racing Magazine,Autosport, AutoWeek, Road & Track, and USA Today. In July 2010, Rick took first place in a judged competition for Best Photograph of the BMW M3 GT2 Art Car.