Photo location wanted: workshop, warehouse, garage

[AndWhyNot]

Just a quick scout to find if anyone knows of or has access to a workshop, warehouse or garage-type building I can use for a car photoshoot, weekend of the next S/C run (13/ 14/ 15 Mar).

Could be clinically clean or grungily dirty, but will need to be able to get fully dark and preferably have height to get above the car. Also, pref within half-hour of Portsmouth.

PM me with any ideas or info. Check out MotorFocus.co.uk to see some of my recent shots.

[NWVT]

iv got to ask mate from one automotive photogreper to anouther how did you do that scirocco one on your gallery if you could email me with details be awsome i would love to maybe do a photosesh with you. im still new to alot of this.

[Thejimreaper]

Andy you have mail

[Gingerbread Man]

Looks to me like a long exposure to get the passing cars head lights and rears either side. While you're waiting for the cars to broom by, run around the car highlighting parts with a torch.

[PompeyBlue]

Contact Diablo_Pete.
The place where he stores his cars, might fit the bill.
Just 10 minutes from Portsmouth.

[greenphotos]

Hi,

I use an Auto Studio just off the M3 junction 5. Happy to meet up and get some shots done.

You'll need to bring your own studio lights or borrow someones, I'm getting some soon but don't think before the 15th.
Kit you'll need: 3 x 400W+ strobes, radio triggers etc...

Mark

Edited by greenphotos on Tuesday 3rd March 11:52

[AndWhyNot]

Thanks for the contributions people.

@ NWVT:



Pretty much as Gingerbread Man suggested, although it's a little less hit and miss than it sounds from that description

[NWVT]

what iso setting were you useing. to achive that shot 100?

[AndWhyNot]

ISO100 IIRC.

If you click through from the pic it'll take you to its page on flickr with all the EXIF settings available.

[Gingerbread Man]

AndWhyNot said:

Pretty much as Gingerbread Man suggested, although it's a little less hit and miss than it sounds from that description

I'm guessing that you had two friends to drive by/ one to drive by and turn around. Saying that you are effectively (by the looks of it) in the middle of a road.

Very good shot though.

Edited by Gingerbread Man on Wednesday 4th March 20:07

[AndWhyNot]

Gingerbread Man said:

I'm guessing that you had two friends to drive by/ one to drive by and turn around. Saying that you are effectively (by the looks of it) in the middle of a road.

Where's the damn "nod" smilie?

[Gingerbread Man]

will do

[LukeBird]

AndWhyNot said:

Gingerbread Man said:

I'm guessing that you had two friends to drive by/ one to drive by and turn around. Saying that you are effectively (by the looks of it) in the middle of a road.

Where's the damn "nod" smilie?

Lovely shot!

[greenphotos]

AndWhyNot,

That is a superb picture, just wondering which camera you used that has a 5 min exposure?

I would love to do a similar shot, but can't work out why the cars on the left (which expose thier rear lights) don't light up the ground with thier headlights?

Mark

[NWVT]

as far as i understand it the liught intensity of the cars on the left basically there head lights are not visable for the camra to pick up hence why there are no rear lights visable from the cars coming towards the camera on the right. i belive he was also useing a nikon but cant rember the model. i think on the canon 350d which is what i have if i set it on 100 iso in the dark it will effectively leave the shutter open for a maximum of mins but i am not shore. i am new to doing this sort of shot with my camera.

[LukeBird]

NWVT said:

as far as i understand it the liught intensity of the cars on the left basically there head lights are not visable for the camra to pick up hence why there are no rear lights visable from the cars coming towards the camera on the right.

Bang on.
On a 5min exposure the light has to be seriously intense to be bright!

Oh and it was taken on a Nikon D80...

[AndWhyNot]

Without turning this thread into a discussion of one photo...

@ greenphotos: most SLRs have a bulb mode where the exposure duration is controlled by some sort of cable release or remote. Only limit is battery life (my longest single exposure on the D80 is just over 30 mins). As I said above, the shot was carefully planned and not at all hit n miss, hence the appearance that the cars' lights aren't illuminating the ground.

@ NWVT and LukeBird: the controlling factors for light intensity is ISO sensitivity or aperture (f/ stop), not exposure duration. This shot was 5 mins only so I could get all the lighting done (took about 3.5 mins) and then a bit longer to expose the sky.

Any more info, PM me

[Gingerbread Man]

Using the bulb exposure feature will enable you to get as many minutes as you want. You have to have the camera on fully manual for this feature though.