Popped out with the Snap-On LED torch the other night… Sat the Canon on a tripod, hooked up the wireless remote, and commenced shooting the rear of my Exige. The night after, I stole the keys to the Dad-in-Laws Elise and did a 'secret shoot' of a 3/4 view for a bit of a surprise for him.

Back home - I say back home… One of the shots was shot on the driveway, just outside the back door! - a bit of deft photoshop editing later, and I ended up with 2 images I was really happy with. What do you think?

Here are a couple of image composites of the 2 shoots - Each shot is made up from approximately 20 individual photos, selectively masked and balanced to make up one single image.

Each image is shot over 10 seconds, and the 'light trails' you can see around the car, are the paths that the torch took over the curves of the vehicle, to highlight individual contours and features...

Here also, is a bonus video showing the number of layers and individual images used to create the Lotus Elise image:

"Roads? Where we're going we don't need roads."

Kinda reminded me of something from Back To The Future...! Almost like the car is hovering, thanks to the front wheels being just out of shot

2.5 Seconds, F6.3, ISO 1600... All on the short driveway at home! Taking away the mystery: Shot with the Rig with the car moving... Who says shots are ALL about loaction?!With limited space, you can still get some great results.

Finally completed my automotive rig a couple of weeks ago. Managed to get out and try it last night, to enjoy the crisp, cold, clear night. (-5C!!)

Kept the rig boom at half it's potential length (~2.5m) to get angle and the crop I wanted for this shot. I can extend it further (to ~5m), to get the whole car in frame on my 24-70, but as it's all new, keeping the length short for it's first trip out allowed me to control the innevitable bounce & bounce in the pole... and make sure that I could trust the suction cups so that I didn't drop 2k's worth of camera onto the tarmac.

Anyway, enough of the chat - here's the pic: Comments appreciated!

Took this shot back in November 2011 - Completely forgot to post it up, until I was asked to dig out some images for a magazine publication. Anyway...sifting through the shots from that evening, I came across this one. Despite the background distractions, and messy peripheral, I kinda liked the way it turned out:

Hope you like! "Burst" (the first of those), was featured on flickr's homepage yesterday - "Explored" - Quite pleasing when you see the web stats skyrocket for the days viewing figures!

Three more from the same stunning afternoon last weekend - Love the crispness of the first two of these, and the atmosphere of the third.