BMW 5 Series Touring

[Darren Turner]

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My New Project Of Various Images From This "Ultimate Driving Machine"
(i will keep updating this this post with images as i take them)

 

[Chris Dodkin]

Fantastic!

Love the way the car is defined by the illuminated parts - did you use a remote flash inside, or the interior lighting?

 

[Darren Turner]

Cheers Chris, It was just the cars interior lights lighting & head lights.

I am thinking of trying again but moving back a little and using remote flash gun to light up the ground underneath the car / wheels but not the actual car.

 

[Dan Cattermole]

Hahahaa!! Thats ace!! I'm well into these posed car shots.
Try putting a masked figure in the driving seat! Hahahaaa!!

 

[Darren Bradley]

Nice shot! I tried to buy one of these a couple of months ago but BMW has stopped selling this car in the States because they'd rather sell us Yanks SUVs instead. So I bought a Volvo wagon (XC70) instead. In the US, wagons aren't very popular and are choices are fairly limited.

 

[Paul Lange]

Darren, I had to look up what you meant by wagon, we call them estates.

 

[Darren Bradley]

Sorry, Paul. I've spent enough time in the UK (and watched enough Top Gear) to know that- forgot to translate!

 

[Dan Cattermole]

Does the 'wagon' have a 'trunk'? Hahahaaa!!!

 

[Paul Lange]

I had visions of an old rickety wooden wagon pulled by horses with John Wayne sitting on top.

 

[Hamish Gill]

Nice shot Darren, what about lighting from behind the car instea of underneath just to give a very slight outline?

 

[Darren Turner]

ooooooooooo do you think that would work?? will give it a go later weather permitting

 

[Darren Bradley]

Oh yes, you're right, guys, because "estate" is a much more logical word for that!

The French, by the way, call them "breaks". That's also funny because it's an English word and an adaptation of the English term "shooting brake", which is essentially a wagon/estate, but with only two doors instead of four. At some point, somebody over there just decided to use the English term to describe it but got confused with the other word, "break", and it stuck!

 

[Kev Pugh]

I have a shot in mind that I want to do, don't have an M5 mind so may have to settle for Woof (Rover), which includes a little smoke a couple of speedlights rear under and maybe green filters...A special for halloween......WoooWoooo!!!

I have the Rover, the camera and the smoke just need a little time..........

Super Shot BTW I did a Jaguar XK a while back but mine was PP'd to create a studio look. This is much better

 

[Hamish Gill]

ooooooooooo do you think that would work?? will give it a go later weather permitting

Dont see why not ... if its cold and you had the engine running you might get some nice effect from the exhaust too ...

 

[Hamish Gill]

... ooo ... or an a misty day!!

 

[Darren Turner]

been playing out and flash wont fire wireless via 7D if i have flash behind car......it needs to be in site of cam flash............errrrrrrrrrrrrrrr errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr lol

 

[Darren Bradley]

You need a pocket wizard or something equivalent so you don't have any line-of-sight issues.

 

[Kev Pugh]

Haven't you any wireless triggers? but would have thought there would have been enough from the cam to fire as slave..........it's a bugger........what about lowering your shoot position, may get some trigger light from under......

 

[Paul Lange]

Could it work if you had a large-ish mirror at the side of the car. I guess that if you could see the flash gun in the mirror then the flash gun could sense the signal flashes from your camera.

 

[Darren Turner]

it does have a great range but if anything get in way i am snookered.........

I tried all angles and failing miserably.........so i went inside car instead for some close up detail...........just looking at them now