virginie24jb
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Hi,
I don't know if it's the right place for that post. If it's not, sorry. Please move the subject to another section of the forum.
So car photography is not my strong point. But I kinda like it. My brother owns a Toyota GT86. He signed up on a message board where he chats and meets with other owners and each year they organize a festival where 40 car owners participate.
This year, the festival will take place in our region (in June) and we've had a meeting yesterday with the admin of the forum who is the main organizer and a few other owners who'll help organize. We discussed ideas such as activities, itineraries, etc. I know them from different times I've hanged with them on other outings. They liked my pictures and they officially named me photographer for that weekend. They said I don't have a choice. I'm flattered and... anxious. It's not paid, it's just for fun but I'm looking at it as a learning experience. I'm looking for advice in terms of logistics, gear and ideas of shoots.
Here's how the weekend will go:
On Saturday we'll likely meet at a Toyota dealer (just waiting for their approval but it should be okay). So most of my work there will be to capture the people interacting with one another and the details of each car since most of them are modified in a way or another. I think the 50mm will be the lens to use. And maybe a little wider for more general scenes? So either I walk around with two cameras or one and switch lenses... Any advice?
Then we will all drive for more than an hour to go to a restaurant and we'll take interesting mountain roads. We've decided to divide the convoy into four groups of 10 cars (+ organizers.; probably one at the beginning and one at the end of the group). One way for me to do it would be to be at the end of the first group (shoot some pictures of the group from there), then they leave me on the side of the road somewhere. I wait for the second group, take pictures as they drive by. I get back into the last car of the second group that will drop me off somewhere else, etc. Does that seem doable?
Maybe I could also be in the first car of the group and shoot from the trunk while on little roads so that I can have pictures of the cars from the front...
So far I've used the 70-300 for shots taken from the interior of the car while we were driving. But when on the side of the road, I guess I'll need something like my 24-105. What would be your advice on carrying that gear (two cameras, with two or three different lens). I have a backpack but I doubt it will be very efficient if I need to change cameras quickly, etc. get out of a car, go back in another... That logistic scares me a little.
We'll have dinner together that evening (photos or not?) and then everybody goes to their respective lodging for the night (home, hotel, etc.).
On Sunday, we'll have a tourist rally where we think three cars will leave every 2-3 minutes. I think I'll be somewhere on the itinerary to shoot every car as they go by. Still thinking about that.
Others ideas : there will be a huge parking lot for midday on Sunday. And it's sloping. I'm thinking about parking the cars according to their colors (every red, every orange, etc. together) and I would be at the bottom of the parking lot. I need to be a little higher so I could use a ladder or something in order to have the 40+ cars on the picture.
Any advice or ideas?
I don't know if it's the right place for that post. If it's not, sorry. Please move the subject to another section of the forum.
So car photography is not my strong point. But I kinda like it. My brother owns a Toyota GT86. He signed up on a message board where he chats and meets with other owners and each year they organize a festival where 40 car owners participate.
This year, the festival will take place in our region (in June) and we've had a meeting yesterday with the admin of the forum who is the main organizer and a few other owners who'll help organize. We discussed ideas such as activities, itineraries, etc. I know them from different times I've hanged with them on other outings. They liked my pictures and they officially named me photographer for that weekend. They said I don't have a choice. I'm flattered and... anxious. It's not paid, it's just for fun but I'm looking at it as a learning experience. I'm looking for advice in terms of logistics, gear and ideas of shoots.
Here's how the weekend will go:
On Saturday we'll likely meet at a Toyota dealer (just waiting for their approval but it should be okay). So most of my work there will be to capture the people interacting with one another and the details of each car since most of them are modified in a way or another. I think the 50mm will be the lens to use. And maybe a little wider for more general scenes? So either I walk around with two cameras or one and switch lenses... Any advice?
Then we will all drive for more than an hour to go to a restaurant and we'll take interesting mountain roads. We've decided to divide the convoy into four groups of 10 cars (+ organizers.; probably one at the beginning and one at the end of the group). One way for me to do it would be to be at the end of the first group (shoot some pictures of the group from there), then they leave me on the side of the road somewhere. I wait for the second group, take pictures as they drive by. I get back into the last car of the second group that will drop me off somewhere else, etc. Does that seem doable?
Maybe I could also be in the first car of the group and shoot from the trunk while on little roads so that I can have pictures of the cars from the front...
So far I've used the 70-300 for shots taken from the interior of the car while we were driving. But when on the side of the road, I guess I'll need something like my 24-105. What would be your advice on carrying that gear (two cameras, with two or three different lens). I have a backpack but I doubt it will be very efficient if I need to change cameras quickly, etc. get out of a car, go back in another... That logistic scares me a little.
We'll have dinner together that evening (photos or not?) and then everybody goes to their respective lodging for the night (home, hotel, etc.).
On Sunday, we'll have a tourist rally where we think three cars will leave every 2-3 minutes. I think I'll be somewhere on the itinerary to shoot every car as they go by. Still thinking about that.
Others ideas : there will be a huge parking lot for midday on Sunday. And it's sloping. I'm thinking about parking the cars according to their colors (every red, every orange, etc. together) and I would be at the bottom of the parking lot. I need to be a little higher so I could use a ladder or something in order to have the 40+ cars on the picture.
Any advice or ideas?