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Fiat Abarth
This little pocket rocket belongs to Gail Hull, MD of Total Insignia in Blackburn. And whilst I enjoy car and automotive photography of all vehicles, the rarer vehicles definitely have more appeal.
The location is the overflow car park at the Oak Royal Hotel, Golf and Country Club, in Withnell, Clitheroe. The trees and early morning sunlight made an ideal backdrop, if a bit of a challenge. That said, easy tends to be less fun.
Gail positioned the car so the sun was pretty much towards the right side of the frame, indicated by the car's shadow. Without additional lighting, you will find the direct sunlight will reduce contrast within the image. In fact, if you look at the trees in the background, you can see the loss of contrast is quite striking, even after it's been puled back in Lightroom.
Lighting wise, I used two Elinchrom ELB400 units, using the HS heads and firing through high intensity reflectors. The high intensity reflectors effectively provide 2.5 times the light output.
The first, I placed frame right, so it was firing straight on to the front of the car. Bearing in mind the angle of incidence, by placing it square on to the front of the vehicle, I am reducing the likelihood of reflected light being seen in the image, although there is a tiny hotspot at the corner of the bumper, which is fine. The output was set to 5.0 (Equivalent to 200Ws).
The second head was placed frame left, and again placed so that it was square on to the side of the car. Output was set to 5.0 (Equivalent to 200Ws).
Using the Elinchrom HS transmitter, I was able to use a shutter speed higher than the default maximum Xsync speed of 1/250th sec on the E-M1 mkII, which I needed to do so, in an effort to retain some colour in the sky and avoid blowing it out all together.
My base exposure was 1/1000th sec at ISO200 and f8.0
I also took two further images with the same shutter speed and aperture settings, one at ISO64 and one at ISO400, giving me...16Feb 4, 2018 -
Ohio State Reformatory
I have a full post over at my Visual Ohio blog, which I will link to at the bottom of this thread for those who want to read through the whole thing and see a bunch more pictures. I used a combo of the Olympus EM5.2 and Panasonic 12-35/2.8 and Ricoh GRII. I'll only be posting m43 pictures here, though.
The Reformatory:
Architect Levi Schofield designed the reformatory after 3 different styles: Victorian Gothic, Richardsonian Romanesque and Queen Ann. The idea was for the inmates to be inspired by the architecture and be reborn back into their spiritual lives.
The reformatory opened its doors on September 15, 1896 and was built on the site of an old Civil War soldier training camp.
The facility is no longer in use and the building/property were sold to the city in 1995. It has been turned into a museum and tourist location.
Information about the reformatory building, tours and more detailed history can be found on
Many Hollywood movies and music videos were shot here.
Air Force One
The Shawshank Redemption
Tango and Cash
to name a few.
Here are the images:
In the "museum" part of the building, you will find items like the different weapons found on inmates when the reformatory was16Feb 11, 2018 -
The Streets Of Melbourne
This series is from a four day stop in Melbourne after a stay on the Mornington Peninsular...
Main camera for the trip was the LUMIX GX85 with P 8mm Fish, PL 15mm and PL 8-18mm. Olympus TG-870 as a backup...10Dec 7, 2017 -
Underground Pregnancy
Took my new streetphoto camera (EPL7) for a ride with beautifull Vicky (on her 8th month)
At first we wanted to do some outdoor pics, but it's been too hot lately (mid summer here), so decided to take her for a few hours down to the underground trains43Feb 4, 2018 -
2018 Rolex 24 at Daytona
Last weekend I headed down to Daytona for the IMSA Rolex 24 hour race. It's a true test of endurance for man and machine, with the race running non-stop for 24 hours. Because I went to assist a team in the race rather than as a spectator, I couldn't bring my D500 with me. I was instead forced to bring my antiquated, 3-year old E-M5 II with me that everybody is clamoring for it to be replaced.
In addition to my E-M5 II (which despite what gear-heads say, I think is still a perfectly fine camera today), I took my 9mm f/8 FE, new-to-me 25mm f/1.2 PRO, 45mm f/1.8, and 75mm f/1.8. This entire kit (along with two spare batteries and charger) fit in a Lowepro ViewPoint CS 80, which slides in my backpack. It's such a fantastic, small kit to capture behind-the-scenes images, and is far better than a cell phone or small point & shoot.
All images were edited in DXO PhotoLabAnyway, here are some of the images I managed to capture while at the track. Enjoy, and thanks for looking
Our car, a Mercedes AMG GT GT3 that runs in IMSA's GTD class, run by Riley Motorsports
Green flag. T-minus twenty fours hours and...38Feb 2, 2018
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