Is there any particular trick to capturing backfire?

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Besides general practice and a little (or alot) of luck, is there any techniques or particular tricks to make capturing backfire easier?

Replay view-type? Particular point in time to hit 'pause'? (maybe 1 second after brake lights come on?) etc etc...

Any tips are much appreciated 👍 👍
 
Get on the back of the straight part on a circuit, stop there and put the car in it highest gear. Then just driveaway while you are changing the gears from for example from 6 to 1 and then back again from 1 to 6. By doing this you will get almost non-stop backfire after a while which makes it easier to capture the fire. =)
 
Aha... yeah i was thinking something along these lines too... sounds like a good technique to try - will give it a stab tonight and hopefully will make things a little easier. Cheers!


Any other tips out there?
 
Get on the back of the straight part on a circuit, stop there and put the car in it highest gear. Then just driveaway while you are changing the gears from for example from 6 to 1 and then back again from 1 to 6. By doing this you will get almost non-stop backfire after a while which makes it easier to capture the fire. =)

Ahhh good to know 👍 never really had any success capturing backfire :lol:
This was the best I could get :crazy:
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Mostly luck in pausing it at the right point. On something tight and twisty like a course maker track with complex sections you'll have plenty of braking and change downs, I'm guessing most people will have a good feel for driving the car as they watch, you can judge the backfire fairly closely. I managed to take quite a few in the replay this shot is from.

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What i generally do is when the car changes gear, let go of the accelerator and let the car change down (automatic). This generally creates backfire and if you keep doing this along a straight then you will have more chance of capturing backfire.

Goodluck.
 
I've captured it a few times, basicly I just kept changing the gears, and every second time I changed down, it appeared. This will likely differ from car to car, though.
From there, it's just part memorizing when the backfire shows up, part luck. And pressing start a lot of times as well, cause you will miss more than once.
On a side note, you will get the best results with higher powered cars, and I've especially captured some nice ones in modded super/sport cars. But i guess that's common sense.
Have fun 👍
 
with backfire, like most have said, comes down to luck for one thing cause there are no playback controls. the next method of shifting gears, I haven't tried that personally cause i use a DS3 and it just stick with automatic.

however, what i have found out over the week end is that if you take the photo from a distance and straight on at the car, it proves to be much more effective. I don't have the pictures on my computer right now to illustrate my point, but in words, it comes down to this:

say your car has backfire before it is entering turn 7 at the monza circuit (which was what happened in my senario on the ferrari challenge)
you have paused to take a picture, but instead of standing right next to the car within a 10m radius, go back approximately 150m back into the straight leading to the corner.
using the camera tools, full zoom right up to the car from where you are standing
the car might look out of focus, then use auto focus on the car
set the camera settings to what you desire, i used a 1/60 shutter speed, with F 8.0 or more. because you have auto focused on the car, lowering the F value will lead to the surrounding scenery to blur out, if you want a blurry scenery surrounding the car, higher for a more crisp and stationary picture.

take the picture and voila! although it must be said, i took the picture straight on from the back of the car which made it significantly more clear. when i attempted to take it from the side it would just screw up. will try and show this with some pictures soon.
 
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