Esprit S4 Sport & Esprit V8 GT

[gravymaster]

Hi Guys,

I havent posted anything for a while, but just finished shooting these two beasts this morning. Had to start at 6:30 am for two mornings to get clear roads...

My uber car rig also arrived this week but I only had one go with it so far.

Anyways:

www.gravynet.com/esprits/index.htm

Cheers!

Matt

[rico]

Nice!!

I love the downwards shot on the yellow Esprit's spoiler. Looks fab.

[esprit87]

Great stuff! An inspiration as always.

Surely it's only a matter of time before the magazine commissions start dropping in.....


Cheers
Magnus


(Matt - YHM)

[V6GTO]

A great set of shots, as allways.

Martin.

[fatsteve]

Awesome!

How did you achive the overhead one of the red Esprit?, was it a step ladder job or something more clever!

Steve

[gravymaster]

fatsteve said:

Awesome! How did you achive the overhead one of the red Esprit?, was it a step ladder job or something more clever! Steve

I had the camera on the level above in the multistorey looking down on it.

Cheers guys!

Matt

[_Dobbo_]

Stonking piccies!

[Phil S]

Great work!

[gravymaster]

Cheers guys!

Matt

[ehasler]

Great photos Matt!

[V6GTO]

What Matt needs in his portpholio now is one of these.



Martin.

[gravymaster]

All in good time... patience paduan.

[CVP]

Great images as always Matt.

[V6GTO]

gravymaster said:

All in good time... patience paduan.

OK...Yoda!

Martin.

[CVP]

Matt

Out of interest what do you use to write your website? I've been learning to write a bit using Mozilla with a view to publishing my own site in a few months but like the way you have your where you just click the image to move on. Is it a tricky coding thing? Bear in mind I'm a bit of a numpty of this type of thing. Give me an Excel spreadsheet to drive and I'm fine but this web stuff is pretty new and I don't get much time to spare on it.

At the moment I have set a page for each image and as you click on the image it opens a link to the next page which is an exact replica of the previous page apart from the new image. To get back to my main "locations" page I juts have a link at the botom of all my image pages. Very amateur stuff at the moment.

Chris

[longq]

esprit87 said:

Great stuff! An inspiration as always. Surely it's only a matter of time before the magazine commissions start dropping in.....

Damn right!

What is it that makes Matt's shots so much more than just f'ing good car pics?

I get the feeling Matt could make a rusty pushbike and plastic bucket into an interesting composition ...

Actually, the hell with the mags - go straight to a glossy book!

Car art.

[_Dobbo_]

Indeed, he certainly seems to have a recognisable style - along with Trackdemon and with deristrtictor on the words, I'm sure a pistonheads car magazine could be better than evo!

[gravymaster]

CVP said:

Matt Out of interest what do you use to write your website? I've been learning to write a bit using Mozilla with a view to publishing my own site in a few months but like the way you have your where you just click the image to move on. Is it a tricky coding thing? Bear in mind I'm a bit of a numpty of this type of thing. Give me an Excel spreadsheet to drive and I'm fine but this web stuff is pretty new and I don't get much time to spare on it. At the moment I have set a page for each image and as you click on the image it opens a link to the next page which is an exact replica of the previous page apart from the new image. To get back to my main "locations" page I juts have a link at the botom of all my image pages. Very amateur stuff at the moment. Chris

Hi Chris,

Its simple enough to code. Email me and I can send you an annotated code snippet that will walk you through it.

Cheers

Matt

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longq said:

esprit87 said: Great stuff! An inspiration as always. Surely it's only a matter of time before the magazine commissions start dropping in..... Damn right! What is it that makes Matt's shots so much more than just f'ing good car pics? I get the feeling Matt could make a rusty pushbike and plastic bucket into an interesting composition ... Actually, the hell with the mags - go straight to a glossy book! Car art.

Thanks mate. Comments like this definately make it worthwhile. I dont think i can really comment on my photos and I have definately got a long long way to go (and lots of kit i'd like!).

However what I can say I've learnt recently is the value of preparation and attention to detail.

For those esprit shots we spent about 8 hours scouting for locations, got up before 6 twice, spent 3-4 hours cleaning cars in the snow...

In total if you consider the other peoples time involved including both drivers and the camera car driver it adds up to 25+ people hours, all for a fraction of a second. Crazy really...







Thanks again for your kind comments.

Matt

[joust]

Matt,

Yet again you inspire me to just keep on trying to get even close to that sort of composition, skill and detail.

Having recently spent a day in the company of a professional car magazine photographer I know that ~32 man hours is now not unusal for just 5-10 pictures.

Thank you once again for sharing your work with us all.

J