My 1985 Fb at high speed

[codge]

Hanging low down on the side of a motorbike with an SLR eh?

Great shots

[jim_chung]

Sorry Codge .... that's just too easy. This was strictly a one man photo session!

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4852049/rx7b2.jpeg

[Chud]

Yeah lovely pictures - just from another moving car?

[jim_chung]

Chud, did you see my Dropbox link image?

I had the camera attached to a custom rig secured with suction cups to the hood. Exposures were in excess of 10 seconds and I was pushing the car on my hands and knees at a baby's crawl to create the illusion of speed and perfect car focus.

[Matt Gordon]

Very nice pics there

just need a front and back pic will add the the awesomeness


she looks like she's in great condition too. lot of work done to her?

[Traxnada]

Chud, did you see my Dropbox link image?

I had the camera attached to a custom rig secured with suction cups to the hood. Exposures were in excess of 10 seconds and I was pushing the car on my hands and knees at a baby's crawl to create the illusion of speed and perfect car focus.

These are not 10s exposures... not to mention that with the moving poll (a poll that thin and that long with a DSLR will move vertically quite a bit if you drive) , that would be impossible to take a picture that way...
These pictures are maybe 1/30s exposure if you were driving fast... 1/15s at best. You would not be able ato keep the car "not blurred" under that.

[jim_chung]

Traxnada,

Please reread the previous posts. The car was not driven but manually pushed by me at a very slow velocity to minimize camera shake. Camera has on board sensor stabilization to offset small amplitude shaking so car image remains sharp. I am however guilty of a little dramatic exaggeration. These were not 10 second exposures. They were 8 second exposures. Read the EXIF data which never lies.

Edited by codge (admin) to take some heat out of this. Jim was obviously upset by comments.

[Traxnada]

Yeah, sorry, with the title mentioning it being "at high speeds", I did stop reading after "Exposures were in excess of 10 seconds and I was pushing the car", reading "pushing the car" as in "really trying to go fast" and thinking "WTF???" as it would have clearly been impossible (trees in the back show also the car moved maybe 2 meters in total during the full time of exposure)
Did you try taking pictures with the same setup while driving though? Higher iso if you can and take a picture while doing 40mph with a 1/30th exposure? If your roads are good, the result should be very similar and you'll be able to take many pictures..

I took this one last week for exemple, and it's probably shot at 1/100 or so...

[spoddy]

great photos jim. your technique was really good and i am sure it was painstaking work.
really nice fb you have as well. look forward to seeing more of your photography.