Finally got all the pieces together for my photography 'car-rig'. Took Maxine out yesterday afternoon to shoot my first shots with the rig.

Here are the results. Hope you guys like.

 

your ride is so sweet, its very different from everything else i see. good job for sure!!

 

What's the rig look like?

 

Photos turned out great!

 

WOW!!!! Those are phenomenal!! Great Job and nice looking ride as well

 

Here's a shot of the rig set up.

 

HOLY S H I T E!! D A M N you're brave! The pics turned out great, but WOW. How does that mount to the car? Just suction cups? how heavy is that thing?

 

I love the pics!

I do not want to alarm you, but someone put some strange stripes on only the top part of your car.

 

What lens are you using? that boom looks huge, like 10-12 feet. Have you considered something ultrawide like a Tokina 11-16mm? If you got something that wide then you could shorten the boom some. I can get the whole car in the shot from 1-6 ft away, depending on the angle:
(I apologize for the crappy pics)

8ft


5ft


3ft

 

Very nice man!

 

Looking great!

 

The boom mounts to the car with some very heavy duty suction cups. It's 15' in length. The camera I am using is a Canon 40D, so with the crop factor of the sensor I am using the Canon 10-22mm EFS lens. It's the only one that will allow me to capture the car with enough distance and not have the boom any longer than that. Until I upgrade to a full frame camera, but that's gonna be a while.

Here's the secret. With the long exposure, the car is actually rolling backwards at about 2 mph. It's all smoke and mirrors. ;-)

 

NICE! I'm going to have to remember that trick.

 

Oh Wow!!!

 

Ah, I was going to ask where youre driving around with that fishing pole! Nice pics.

 

Ahhh ha ha! Now that I look more closely ... yeah, the motion lines seem to be going the wrong way. Still looks ****-hot!

 

Silly question, but why backwards at 2 mph, instead of forwards at 2mph???

Awesome pics!

 

Either way works. It just so happens that the hill I was on, for the proper light direction I was facing uphill. You don't want the engine running, that will cause vibrations in the boom. So backwards I go.

 

That's really cool! Love the pics and the techniques