Lamborghini Rolling shot..

[faux toe graph]

I love the capture, very nice job! I say save the drivers head, cars don't drive themselves (yet).

 

[faux toe graph]

I love the capture, very nice job! I say save the drivers head, cars don't drive themselves (yet).

In fact, I think you should give the guy a hot babe in the passenger seat

 

[Patrice]

Nice photo. Good job on capturing the sense of speed and the predominance of only 3 colors gives the shot some impact. However I think the shot would be improved a bit if the shadow in front of the car on the road fell away from the car instead of towards the front. That drew my attention away from the subject.

 

[Kabluey]

what an effing sweet ride

 

[Sideburns]

I think the photo looks bad ass. Great Shot! Here's a quick chop of the driver removed.

Personally I think that ruins the picture. Ghost car? Robot man? Remote Control? Fake background? Nobody knows...

at least with a driver we all know somebody is driving the car.

 

[93rdcurrent]

I think I'm getting the idea... like I said blur the head... but let's add to it... hot babe with no top. Oooooooh me likey!

Ok admit it it's funny.

 

[Olympus8MP]

Nice shot!! I've been wanting to try one of these shots, but most cars would not look good in this shot. You got the perfect car for this shot!

 

[JHF Photography]

I find the shot sans driver looks a little odd.... like the car is driving itself. A better option would have been to roll up the driver side window. As mentioned, it would add uniformity to the car. Plus the reflections would probably hide the driver anyways, without giving the "ghost car" effect. Unless someone can photoshop in a window, with reflections.... but I know I sure can't!

P.S I like the shot overall, and the car is STUNNING!

 

[Photofiend]

Interesting responses.... I don;t really like very much about this shot personally. The car is not crisp. The driver side window should be up for uniformity, The car is too centered,..

I would try again with a fast shutter, you will still get blurred backgrounds and very blurred wheels both being a good thing... For example, look at the AMA bike shots in this section. Bikes moving pretty fast, are sharp, background/foreground blurred, wheels blurred.

*I think everyone is al rosey eyed only because it is a Lambo in the shot :heart:

I will try that out next time. I personally like the soft look that the slower shutter speed does. However what speed do you mean by fast? As in 1/2000 I prefer criticism because I feel its the only way you can improve. We are going to re shoot soon I will try out what you said

 

[Bevel Heaven]

I really should have said 'faster' not 'fast'....... 1/2000 would freeze everything and you lose any sense of speed. See below:

This one below I shot at 1/160 sec at F13, ISO 200. It gets real tough on a motorcycle as there are so many moving parts, the entire front end and rear end for example. You go too slow on the shutter speed, and the majority of the bike just looks out of whack. The trick in bike photography is to get as much as possible sharp on the bike, but let the wheels get blurred up only. I find 1/320 is a very good compromise generally speaking of course.

 

[nossie]

I agree a lot with Bevel Heaven regarding a few bits but I was thinking of different solutions.

The car doesn't look sharp to me either but my solution was the opposite, slow everything right down. Don't drive at 55mph coz you're rumbling all over the place with the cam in your hands. Since you're in another car I think you should use a slower shutter speed + drive at 5/10mph + prop the cam on a lump of sponge on the door or use a magic arm, anything to absorb vibration of course including image stabiliser.

The ultimate solution is to use an extension for the camera on the front of the Lambo, so whatever it does the camera follows. Later photoshop the pole out.

As for the driver... Moving cars have drivers, get a good looking one or really big sunshades ;p Erasing the driver didn't work for me and I think the best solution is either to use him fully or rollup the window.

Mr. Critical up there

People ask for C&C and then get narky coz you try to tell the truth as you see it for their benefit and to push them onwards instead of throwing a bouquet at 'em. Sometimes I wonder if I'm supposed to give someone else's opinion and not my own.

 

[Bevel Heaven]

I also think that the VR series lens from Nikon set to active mode would settle things with the vehicle being photographed. Ultimately nossi has some good solutions above. I especially like the part saying to simply SLOW DOWN both the lambo and the photog's vehicle. There is no need to be going real fast for that shot. you could probably come up with something very nice only moving 10 mph and it would give you far less camera shake etc, and you would be able to match the lambo's speed almost exactly.

From my standpoint, I personally like these kind of shots when the vehicle looks like it is standing still but the wheels are blurred, the background is blurred.... Specifically, the vehicle is just perfectly exposed etc. But I am funny that way.

Please let us know if you get to do this again [with another car or the same it really doesn;t matter] and show us what you come up with along with how you do it. We all get to learn that way..