I started out in news shooting stills and ended up in video as there wasn't enough money in stills for me but I sure will I could get back into it.

The one bit of advice I got from a photo editor back then was "fill the frame", think about it, fill the frame, no matter what you are shooting, position and angle that lens until you have filled the frame, any open space is wasted space.

I still use that in video today, I can't pan and zoom if my life depended on it but I see my video frame as a still photo and I am always composing that picture.

Try that even at competition or in the pits, whatever you are photographing front and centre, what is filling all that open space around the main object? Try it, leave no open space.

Thats what works for me anyways, as well as some creative camera angles as well and sometimes you have to do that to fill the frame.

Now if only I could learn this new quick camera movements style of shooting that everyone is going with in video these days, I need a super wide angle lens to start and need to acquire the attention span of a squirrel and maybe then I will master than, fell flat on my nose trying it last year but maybe that's what I will work on at this year's waterloo and GTR regional.

mark