Darren Heath F1 Photographer
Darren Heath was born in England on the year of 1968, he discovered his love for photography at the age of fourteen whilst watching Motorsport racing at places such as brands hatch with the original intention of becoming a racing driver. But later found this to be an unrealistic target and decided to combine his love for racing with his love of photography, first of all he started with a Kodak Instamatic 25 and used his spare time and money toward funding for camera equipment as well as travelling to races. His mother has been an artist for many years and his uncle is the worlds premier yacht designer, so an artist bent is prevalent in the family.
Heath is credited with discovering a secret braking system used by McLaren in 1997 by taking a picture in the cockpit of David Coulthards retired car; the team were using a separate brake pedal for the rear wheels, which allowed the driver to alter the cars behavior during cornering. Although this photograph would later land Heath a job as McLaren Photographer. The sensitive cockpit photograph was published in F1Racing 1997 November issue. The system was later copied the following season by the teams of Williams and Jordan, the device was later banned by the FIA (Federation Internationale de I'Automobile).
Some of Darren Heaths clients include McLaren, Ferrari, Ford, Jaguar, BMW, Toyota, Phillip Morris, British American Tobacco, Vodafone, Bridgestone, FIA, Henri Lloyd, Time, F1Racing, Car Graphic, F1 Sokuho, F1 Scene, Car, Top Gear, The Sunday Times, The Telegraph, The Observer, The Financial Times, The Sun and Conde Nast Traveller.
He is a multi-award winning Photographer based in London, specializing in Formula1 and automobile industry, endeavoring to cover events and commissions in a creative and artistic manner using natural lighting and colour to maximum effect. In 2005 The Royal Photographic Society awarded Darren their prestigious Honorary Fellowship as recognition of his excellence and evidence of distinguished ability in his chosen field.
Also in addition to his Motorsport work his site DarrenHeath.com contains both commissioned work and more personal photography shot away from the tracks of the world. Find this in his 'Off Track' page.
The equipment Darren uses on a normal race day includes two Canon EOS1-DS mark 3's, and the following lenses that he always uses no matter what track includes the 24, 50, 85, 200 and 600mm. The lens in which he favours using most is the 50mm f/1.2 as shot in the following picture.
The reason behind me using Darren Heath as a photographer to research is because this is the field that I myself are particularly interested in getting into, travelling all over the World to watch a sport that I love and also to take photographs in the process. I particularly love the difference in his sport photography compared to others, when I look at his work it feels to me as If these pictures could have been painted, because there is so many different ways of taking a photograph at an event that not one picture is repeated or looks the same, with bright painted vibrant colours and more often or not some dull colours with skies that look interesting.
Heath is credited with discovering a secret braking system used by McLaren in 1997 by taking a picture in the cockpit of David Coulthards retired car; the team were using a separate brake pedal for the rear wheels, which allowed the driver to alter the cars behavior during cornering. Although this photograph would later land Heath a job as McLaren Photographer. The sensitive cockpit photograph was published in F1Racing 1997 November issue. The system was later copied the following season by the teams of Williams and Jordan, the device was later banned by the FIA (Federation Internationale de I'Automobile).
Some of Darren Heaths clients include McLaren, Ferrari, Ford, Jaguar, BMW, Toyota, Phillip Morris, British American Tobacco, Vodafone, Bridgestone, FIA, Henri Lloyd, Time, F1Racing, Car Graphic, F1 Sokuho, F1 Scene, Car, Top Gear, The Sunday Times, The Telegraph, The Observer, The Financial Times, The Sun and Conde Nast Traveller.
He is a multi-award winning Photographer based in London, specializing in Formula1 and automobile industry, endeavoring to cover events and commissions in a creative and artistic manner using natural lighting and colour to maximum effect. In 2005 The Royal Photographic Society awarded Darren their prestigious Honorary Fellowship as recognition of his excellence and evidence of distinguished ability in his chosen field.
Also in addition to his Motorsport work his site DarrenHeath.com contains both commissioned work and more personal photography shot away from the tracks of the world. Find this in his 'Off Track' page.
The equipment Darren uses on a normal race day includes two Canon EOS1-DS mark 3's, and the following lenses that he always uses no matter what track includes the 24, 50, 85, 200 and 600mm. The lens in which he favours using most is the 50mm f/1.2 as shot in the following picture.
The reason behind me using Darren Heath as a photographer to research is because this is the field that I myself are particularly interested in getting into, travelling all over the World to watch a sport that I love and also to take photographs in the process. I particularly love the difference in his sport photography compared to others, when I look at his work it feels to me as If these pictures could have been painted, because there is so many different ways of taking a photograph at an event that not one picture is repeated or looks the same, with bright painted vibrant colours and more often or not some dull colours with skies that look interesting.