Car-Tastic

Another from a while back, this lot shot in 2015 of my very very good friend David's BMW 7 series.

It had been a while since i'd been out with the camera kit and i really enjoyed getting back on the horse(power) so to speak.

Not really sure if Car Photography is the kind of thing i really enjoy all that much but this was a fun time having good banter with my mate and getting a few nice shots of the car.

Might need to go and do a bit more of this sort of thing for fun,

Vroom

Today has been quite a different but fun day, i was asked to help out Adam Matheson for a few hours shooting a restored 1968 Mini Cooper.

We travelled to the sunny heights of Bo-ness to get some interesting picket fencing for the backdrop, before moving onto a site we'd found whilst having a quick squint about which included the awesome 1968 tow truck.

The very Lovely Miriam was there to help out, kicked out in 1960's disco chick outfit which worked really well.

As sometimes happens at these things we drew a little attention, including from the driver of a very cool car who paused and Mark, the mini owner, had a quick chat with him and persuaded him to let us photograph his car too, a much more modern Ariel Atom which can be seen in the shot below.

Many thanks to Miriam for being so much fun, to Mark and Steven for the loan of their cars as models and to Adam for the invite along.

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Thursday was a a bit of a disaster in some ways, and pretty great in others.

The original plan was to take this car, beloging to Steven Carrie, into the college studio for studio based car shots, but early this week we discovered that the shutters were broken and those plans were shelved.

After a short stint of looking for a model instead a last minute plan was hatched to simply do some location shots with the car, so off we trotted, with David as assistant, and set these up.

I would have liked a better seperation from the background but some kit issues and by the looks of things the power of the flash not being as high as it could have, has meant it didn't work out as planned.

The main image here is actually a HDR, but very subtely as i combined a couple of shots to get the look i wanted.

hopefully many more car shots to come in the future.

Cars Bikes and ...

Todays 365 blog update was a strange one, went from trying to do some landscape stuff to thinking about some snow stuff, which didn't really fall enough, to taking pics of some model bikes and cars in the house.

I'm really chuffed with how they turned out - with a strobist style shoot. The background was the back of an A4 picture and the lighting was from a softbox on the Jessops 300D.