Passing time
Just passing some time editing one of the A5 shots from earlier this year and thought I’d share it here.
The photo is taken with the Canon 50D and a Canon 10-22 lens. Car is lit with two Canon 430EX’s on the rear and the sun on the side. Click the photo to view it larger on flickr.
Classic Beauty
Some time ago I wrote a short post titled Trespassing and promised I’d get back with more details and pictures. And behold, I’m back… In the previous post I showed you a picture of a wheel and a front wing that could only belong to a classic british roadster. And true enough, the car in question was a brand new Morgan Roadster sporting the optional 72 spoke wire wheels.
The Morgan Roadster is the latest model produced by the Morgan Motor Company. It was introduced in 2004 replacing the Morgan Plus 8. The car is identical to its predecessor except for new modern Ford V6 mechanicals. The new engine develops 220 hp (164 kW) and is slightly lighter than the Rover V8 it replaces giving the car increased performance and better fuel economy.
Although the photoshoot was done within 2 hrs from the journalist called me to schedule I had the time to put some thought into the location. Call it a cliché, but a car like this deserves not to be shot in your average urban location. It deserves something old and classic. I decided to shoot the car at Akershus fortress, a 700 year old castle that was built to protect the City of Oslo from attackers. Still being used by the military I called them up and made arrangements to do the shoot there… Got the permit and was bummed as hell when the guard at the gate turned us away saying the permit wasn’t valid. We decided to go ahead with shoot anyway and managed to do so in a more remote area, hence the title on the last post.
Being a quick shoot it turned out quite good and several of the pictures ran with the newspapers article. All pictures was taken using natural light and the trusty Canon L 70-200 2.8 lens. Check out the link for these pictures and some rolling shots. Also make sure to visit my flickr photostream to view the pictures in this post in higher resolution. Just click the pictures and you’ll get there ;)
Detailed
Berhard who’s great looking Passat I shot some time ago is as I mentioned a professional detailer and does all sorts of cool cars. He called me up last week and had a small assignment for me. He was detailing a B5 Audi RS4 and wanted some pictures taken of it with it’s owner. Having the owner in the shot might sound peculiar, but take a look at the pictures below and you’ll probably figure out why ;)
The RS4 in question was black and I had an idea of lighting it bouncing the light of the roof in the workshop, but that didn’t work out so the car is basically lit the same way you would light a non black car. Worked out better than I had imagined actually.
I had a hard time doing detail-shots as I had not brought my 24-70L and the 50mm prime I had inteded for the detailshots was busted after my backpack dropped from a height the other week. That left me with the 70-200 or the 10-22. Beeing confined in the garage limited the use of the 70-200 and the 10-22 really isn’t ideal for those kind of shots. Here are two taken with the 70-200 though.
Now for the owner shots Bernhard wanted… This car shots with people in them is really new to me, but Nina Marie was a great sport and really fun to work with so she made my work easy. Great practice and great fun :)
As I told you in my last post, the snow has started falling here in Norway so outdoor shots are kinda limited at the time, you can see why below. But Nina Marie and I agreed to do a new shoot with the RS4 come spring, and I think we’ll shoot her pink (!) Mini Cooper as well, so stay tuned.
All pictures opens on flickr when clicked where they and several other from the shoot can be viewed in higher resolution.
The snow doesn’t give a soft white damn who it touches
I’m sure American poet E.E. Cummings didn’t really think about automotive photographers when he stated the above, but it sure is fitting. Today the first snow fell and with that put an definite end to this years shooting of cars. I’ve got some indoor shoots planned and also scheduled, but fresh automotive pictures will be scarce until the spring sets in again.
So what to do? Well I started digging through the archives and did some editing. I’ve really gotten a thing for high key-ish and low contrast pictures lately and had to give it a try. The picture was shot at VW Audi Club Norwegen’s annual fall meet at Rudskogen Racetrack in August using a following vehicle for those interested. This was one of my first times using the Canon 24-70 2.8 L, a lens that since then has gotten a decent amount of use ;)
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