
Julian Mercer
Client
Julian Mercer
Year
2024
Role
Motorsport Photographer
Location
Miami, Florida
Timeline
1 race weekend · May 2024
Services
Editorial Coverage, Same-day Delivery, Social Cutdowns
Race-weekend documentation across practice, qualifying and the grid. Everything was shot handheld with two bodies, prioritising speed of movement over perfect framing.
Three days, one paddock pass and a shot list that changed hourly. Miami is a low-contrast circuit in the afternoon, so most of the usable work happened in the last hour of practice and during qualifying.
Method
Panning at 1/60s to keep the track surface alive
Fixed positions at Turn 11 and pit exit
Selects, captioned and delivered within 40 minutes of each session
The edit favours movement over sharpness. Where a frame had to choose between a clean car and a sense of speed, it chose speed.
Selected Frames

Turn 11, 1/60s pan

Long run, evening practice

Pit exit, tyre smoke
Credits
Client: Ferrari · Team Liaison: Julian Mercer · Edit: Two Lap Studio