Photos by Calvin

More w/ Rigs

Since my car isn’t clean enough to test my rig on, I’ve had to wait to use others’ cars. This is why I love meets. Everyone wants to be my guniea pig, LOL! They provide me with clean cars to practice my rig on, and in return I offer the results. I won’t be charging for these shots until I get better, hah.

Last night Grant and I were able to test out the rig on a few rides. We even tried it on a Yaris! I found out the pole I’m using (~10′) isn’t long enough to mount on the roof of a g and get the entire car in the frame the way i want it to. The Yaris seemed consierably smaller, so we tested it on JJ’s.

I’m not too fond of how it came out, although I was happy that not much processing was needed to lose the rig – LOL!

I learned tonight that black cars and rig shots don’t get along so well. There’s just no “pop” to it. I’m sure there’s something I can do or maybe I’m doing something wrong. I’ll figure it out, I hope…

Then we tested it on Glenn’s CL. Before I go any further, let me just comment on how refreshing it is to shoot cars other than the G35. Don’t get me wrong, the G35 is a beautiful car and I love to shoot it, but it seems like that’s all I ever shoot. Anyway, back on track. Here is a shot of Glenn’s CL, WITH THE RIG!

All the shots posted above were taken with the car on with someone driving it. This introduced more camera shake than expected. The first night I had the rig we did the same thing – car on, driver driving in circles – with minimal camera shake. I guess we’ll experiment more next time with pushing the car, engine off, instead. Another lesson I learned: don’t make circles around a tree – LOL! Yes, that’s what the green blotch in the pics is. I didn’t really think about it at the time. It was a convenient marker to tell the drivers to drive around, hah! Oh well.

To see a couple more pics in higher res, please visit my gallery!