CANON PRO
JAKOB, 46, is one of the UK’s best motorsports photographers. He established JEP in 1999, now the leading national motorsports photography agency in the UK. The multi award-winning JEP team specializes in coverage of events for championships, manufacturers, teams, drivers, sponsors and suppliers. Since at 2003, he’s been based at Silverstone racetrack. He was the top man to teach our PhotoPlus Apprentice how to capture a broad range of motorsports photos on a practice day at Donington Park race circuit. Learn more about Jakob and his team at www.jakobebrey.com
APPRENTICE
MARK, 63, is a retired lecturer who worked in the Department of Education at the University of Oxford. He travelled extensively overseas and to make downtime alone more interesting, he bought a Canon EOS 750D. After a few years, this led to an upgrade to a 5D Mark IV. Mark enjoys woodland, landscape and cityscape photography. Although he likes shooting beautiful things that don’t move, the opportunity to try fast-action motorsport was an irresistible opportunity to learn new photography skills!
TECHNIQUE ASSESSMENT
At the start of the track day at Donington Park, Jakob gave Mark a few tips to get his Canon EOS 5D Mark IV set up for the action
Tv MODE FOR MOVEMENT
Mark was confident in using Manual mode for photographing landscapes, setting his aperture and shutter speed independently, it was better to use the Shutter priority (Tv) mode as Jakob suggested, so that he could enter a fast shutter speed of at least 1/1000 sec. His Canon EOS 5D Mark IV DSLR would then set
