It’s taken me almost 20 years to return here and I had an amazing day. I managed to a press pass from the lovely folk at Santa Pod which enabled me to get track side and behind the start grid.

I was experimenting with the 5D ii HD video capture towards the end of the day and was amazed with the quality. Its pretty hard to hold still over 100mm and focus at 2.8. The audio is appalling but then again it was windy and I was standing behind cars laying down 1000+ bhp!! I will post some short videos shortly.

Equipment taken:

1D iii with Canon 70-200 2.8 L IS
5D ii with Canon 24-70 2.8 L
Sigma 50mm 1.4

Below is a sample of the 600 images to took on the day:

When you get a bus this low you know its going to be a painful photo shoot. Not only will it involve a lot of lying on the floor getting those dramatic angles but I knackered my knee the day before so was cringing everytime I got down on the floor, ouch.

The brief from VW Camper & Bus was to show off the slammed patina bay in all its glory with some low grungy shots. This is the first time I’ve shot for a magazine and I had to think a little differently about how I frame the subject. Making sure there is plenty of space in the frame allowing for cropping and text.

The light was dull which is preferable to full on sun. But this was almost too dull. The location was only a few miles from T2D HQ on the other side of Reach. There are several large black grain stores there which made for a large blank canvas in which to place the bus in front of.

I ended up shoot mainly multiple bracketed exposures which would then allow me to either use a single frame exposure to produce high tonal HDR pics. Ideally I could have done with some high powered strobes but the final images came out pretty good after the HDR treatment.

These images will hopefully make it into a VW Camper & Bus issue soon. I’ll be sure to post some more news when I hear something.

Lastly I would like to talk Paul at T2D for getting me the photo gig. Hopefully they’ll be some more

Jon is currently working on the new site. The design is almost done and is being WordPressed ready for upload.

In the mean time before the site is LIVE Jon’s pictures can be seen on his Flickr account, see the link below:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jonmold/

The new site will have a wide selection of Jon’s work available to buy online or a selection of prints will be on view at Type 2 Detectives offices in Burwell where you can buy or order prints.

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All the best and thanks for visiting.

Jon