Nurbergring, Germany

Every year My dad, my brother and I go to the Nurburgring, Germany.

It is a public racetrack where you pitch up, pay 24 Euros and drive as fast as you can around 137 corners.

I thought I would post on my blog as it is vaguely photography related.

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My brother watches a sequence of BMW M5s being tested on the track before the track opened.

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Panning gives a great impression of speed. I used a shutter-speed of 1/40 of a second and followed the car as it screeched around the alpine roads surrounding the race track.

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The trick to panning is to use a slow shutter-speed and follow your subject throughout the exposure. In this instance, I used a 1/40 second