The Car Rig

[Malcolm Feth]

One more of Whirlybird's Esprit

[Malcolm Feth]

From this Saturday, still fresh

[Bazza 907]

Love it !!!

[Bibs]

The bodywork looks very velvet, nice snap

[Malcolm Feth]

One more

[VisualEchos]

Curious that you left the side windows up in both shots. I like the angle on the last one, but I might have gone wider, then cropped so the distortion wasn't as easily seen. You need a 20-ft boom *grin.

[Malcolm Feth]

Hey Andrew, yes... a shot was a little bit wider, I cropped some back and bottom... and yes windows were up - don't ask me why I decided to do it this way... it slightly pissed me off when I've seen photos on my PC... I will remember next time

As for boom... yesss... now it is 4.5 meter, I'm still on my BETA version. Winter is coming and I will have time to add one more 1.5 section and add more stability, which will be an issue.

[VisualEchos]

Ah, maybe it's just the design of the car making it seem more distorted. I forget little things all the time as well, details that I am forced to fix in Photoshop. I'm going to tether my iPad to my camera from now on, it'll hopefully help me spot those things!

[Malcolm Feth]

I always have my laptop during shooting, connect it from time to time, make sure I captured what I wanted, there is nothing I missed, enough sharpness etc... I didn't this time though...

[Malcolm Feth]

And last one of this Elise, next probably somewhere next year

[Malcolm Feth]

Something from today... Recently I got pretty lazy. 4 days of work and I will have half month to play with cars & camera

[VisualEchos]

The distortion seems to be less on this one, I like it.

[Malcolm Feth]

I'm ordering one more 1.5m long tube, will see how photos will look like then, but this one was taken at 14mm... I get big distortion on 10mm, things just look weird. I believe this Elise S1 photo you have in mind was actually taken at 10mm. I'm trying to avoid it now.

[Wilf]

Apologies if already asked, and this may be a stupid question but do you have to photoshop the poles out?

[Malcolm Feth]

Yes, I do there is no other way take a photo like this.

Moving car maybe, but it is not an easier option really.

 

On this one pole was mounted on roof & on rear-left side of the car.

[Malcolm Feth]

From my photo shoot on Sunday, with a lovely storm trooper exige

[Malcolm Feth]

... and one more

[Bibs]

[Red Baron]

Very nice and sharp one !

[Malcolm Feth]

One more photo before end of the year

[VisualEchos]

You sure choose some odd angles for an automotive photographer.  Are you normally a portrait photographer?

[Malcolm Feth]

"good odd" or "bad odd"? Answering your question - no. From time to time I take some portraits shots, but I'm not a fan working with a human on the other side of the lense.

[VisualEchos]

Well, that depends .

 

Your compositions seem very centered, and your chosen angles, shall we say, unflattering.  Also, shooting the tire-face is pretty much out, unless you're shooting a tire ad.  These aren't critiques of your work, they're just curiousities, if your profession is an automotive photographer.  For people photographer's though, they make perfect sense, hence the question .

[Malcolm Feth]

I like to have a car in middle for some reason. I noticed this on quite a lot of my photos... motorsport, static, rig and in most of cases I just like when object is close to centre. Not sure what more I can say here, but I appricate your feedback For me rig shots are still something quite new, so I'm just experimenting a lot. Experience is everything

[VisualEchos]

I encourage everyone to do what they feel looks best, even if it breaks the "rules", so long as the rules are known, and considered.  In other words, carry on