As we head into a new year I thought I would post a few of my personal favourites from 2011. In no particular order.
A huge thanks to all clients, friends and collaborators. Here’s to an even better 2012!
I recently did a promotional shoot for Red Dragon IT Rally Team. This Blue Oval Beauty is a rebuilt ex works rally car.
Hopefully to be appearing as a feature in a Ford type magazine soon!
I covered Lounge on the Farm in Canterbury last weekend here are a couple of images from that
I’m a sucker for panned shots I just love them. So when a few weeks ago now a fellow photographer Ross Ianson (you really ought to check out his work on www.speedhunters.com as its very good indeed. Particularly his British Drift Championship stuff) posted a shot of his on Facebook where he was trying, and very nearly succeeded to achieve a 1 second panning shot.
So the challenge was set just how long could you go to achieve a usable panning shot?
Shot one
ISO at 160
Focal Length 70mm
Apeture f/29
Shutter Speed 1/40 second
Which gives a sharp usable image, very nice. But I still feel I can go slower. However I have one problem which I am up against. I am shooting in the middle of the day on a pretty sunny day. But never the less lets see how far we can go.
Shot Two
ISO at 100
Focal Length 81mm
Apeture f/25
Shutter Speed 1/30 second
Now there’s not much difference here as the ISO and aperture changes has balanced out the shot its the shutter speed that is really starting to make a huge difference as now we are fairly and squarely in tripod territory. I’m not sure I like it as its neither here nor there in my opinion. But I still wanted to see how much slower I could go.
Shot Three
ISO at 100
Focal Length 91mm
Apeture f/32
Shutter Speed, 1/6 second
Now this one has an altogether different feel, almost a dreamy other worldly look to it, yes its all blurry but you really get the feeling hes moving fast and that’s what its all about. These settings were basically as slow as my kit would allow me to go given the environment. The only way I could have gone slower would be to use ND filters or welders glass. One bit of advice when you start going this slow forget looking through the camera instead practice holding the camera in front of you it will a lot steadier.
So there’s the challenge guys if you take pictures why not give it a go and see just how slow you can go I’d be interested to see what people can do.
Yesterday saw the Gumball 3000 Rally set off from London headed for Paris on the first stage of a 3,000 mile trip. Finishing in Istanbul in a week. The display of super and hyper cars taking part was quite breath taking. So enough of my ramblings here’s a selection of pictures.
One of the first cars past us was this Bentley in the outside lane and completely missing the slip road to the Euro Tunnel, he wasn’t the only one!
The guys in the Orange BMW M3 GTS were the first to hit Paris. Well done guys.
The ever awesome Bughatti Veyron, even winding down it still sounded as if it was going to devour anything around it!
A truly stunning Ferrari 599 GTO finished in chrome. Yes you read right CHROME!!!!!!!
The guys from Team Galag (http://teamgalag.com/) all the way from Saudi
This has cause a fair amount of discussion. I think its based on a Renault V6 chassis and engine. In a classic Renault 4 shell wow!
A Gumball honeymoon! congratulations and good luck guys
Awesome paint job (if you can call it a paint job!) on this Bently Continental
Don’t forget to check out my other images at www.rubberduckdoes.com/Gumball3000 . Also all the info on the rally on the offical website www.gumball3000.com. Also the best unofficial site www.gumball-3000.com which is full of everything Gumball.
An image from the first round of the British Rally Cross Championships 2011
Apologies for not posting anything for a while but I have kind of had my hands full, namely the arrival of our 2nd daughter nearly 3 weeks early. May I just take this opportunity to introduce you to Priya Joy Bristow. She seems to be comfy in front of the camera already and doesn’t even mind the strobes!
Normal service will be resumed next week. I will be working on a behind the scenes blog from when I buried a model in soil!
The duck realised that Xmas lunch was going to be a
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