I suppose many of you do not realize how much a fan of “Car Photography” I am.
No, not pictures OF cars… but pictures FROM cars.
I find a great satisfaction from taking an awesome picture while being really lazy, and that means taking it while in my car.
Some of my favorite images and favorites of others were taken while in a car.
I’ve turned it into a science… I could go on an on for a couple hours about the finer techniques of “driving photography”
Of course I do consider myself somewhat of a documentive photographer, I’m more concerned with capturing the image and capturing LOTS.
I don’t have a pressing need or desire to come away with the ONE shot… I like lots. (motivated by one of my future projects)
When I travel I’m always wanting to see what’s around the corner… I don’t want to stick around here.
(Above) For this picture I stopped and rolled down the window, because I just couldn’t handle not stopping… the light was too amazing
(BELOW) For the following I didn’t roll down the window… I shot through the window… no… actually it wasn’t clean.
But I couldn’t worry about it, it was clean enough and the site was drawing me in so much I just had to.
So I shot straight through the front window.
In fact I didn’t stop for this one… I suppose I was still going pretty fast, but these pictures were taken at 2.8 pushing the shutter speed to 1/8000th
Here you can even see the outline of my dashboard.
Warning: Do not attempt at home – I am not only experienced at this, I’m a long time veteran and very cautious, and a tad crazy.
I’ll try to do more posts talking about my travel photography and driving photography if people are interested.
This is pretty much all I took pictures of this day… on the road back from San Diego
Let this be a lesson to never cancel just cuz of weather.
Just be prepared.
Know how to make it work.
It might mean you have to different stuff than on a more normal day.
But that’s how a good photographer and a good photo shoot goes… Roll With The Punches.
This was slated as an 8 hr formals shoot.
I didn’t realize it was a 2 and a half hour drive so it ended up being 6 and a half hours long.
I had several people asking me how in the world we’d be able to go for that long when most times it’s more like 2hrs.
Well I just told them several times to be prepared to work hard too… that’s 6-8hrs of modeling, it’s a two way road.
They were naturals and since they knew and picked how long it would last they never once complained and were totally into it.
What an awesome photo shoot.
By the end her hair was totally wet and nothing like when they started… but we adapted and adjusted just fine.
And we actually all stayed pretty warm.
We had a lot of traveling in between spots… abt 2hrs driving in the car… that was the saving grace.
Being able to warm up from time to time and to reset and find new places with new pictures.
Just cuz it’s snowing doesn’t mean you’re excused from not laying on the ground.
You better have prepared for what you’re wearing to get down and make the shot happen.
If she’s in a wedding dress in 6 inches of snow you can lay down once or twice.
Thank goodness for a lightstand so that the assistant can park the car while you take advantage of the last reminents of twilight.
On the left is a spot he was planning on for a while and very excited about.
On the right is a spot he’s probably past a hundred times and never even noticed… but I saw on the way down and new we’d need to stop there. Both winners!
I took 1400 pictures many reasons
They were really good looking
We shot for so long
I loved the locations
When snow is falling you have to take a bunch to avoid the snowflakes showing up in bad spots like in front of their eyes.
But the picture above was in the first minute of shooting and is amongst my favorites.
They did a great job at expressing emotions in their pictures… and that’s something you can’t really pose.
OK so I can’t honestly remember the last time I was caught up on my editing.
I think it might have been February… but then again maybe it was last November.
And as of this morning… well I still am not. (Kinda)
I’ll always have something to edit.
I could a few road trips I’ve never touched or even Europe pictures (2006)
But as far as shoots I’ve done for money… well I think I’m pretty much caught up! Hurray.
And I think I’ll stay pretty caught up all the way until the christmas rush.
Here are pictures from the last shoot I did… get this… Friday (two days ago)
These were for an old friend Jason.
He grew up in Park City so that’s where we went.
This was the 3rd time downtown park city to do engagements… and I’m happy say we did all new places.
Park city has a lot of photographic spots to offer.
I specially loved how they were creating snow on the slopes and they were willing to go stand out in the field to get some… it was way cold there. (Much warmer downtown)
Since they met skiing they’ll probably like this one.
I love how in photography you’ll travel an hour just to get a picture of the sky.
The mayor of park city was here and he offered to get them married right then and there. In the end he just gave them a free print.
We were done but I just had to try out one last shot. Looking back i should have done more on this (meaning more poses to choose from)
The Rush is coming
It’ll be another fun and crazy christmas like last year, maybe just as much or more driving but with only 4-5 states.
Then a nice lull again to start getting on some projects that are long since needed to get rolling.
Not to far where I always stop to get pictures of Wild Burrows i came accross a once in a while occurance.
WILD HORSES
I’ve driven that strip and many others have as well… and they’ve never seen them.
They’re always there… it’s just a huge wide expanse of nothingness so they don’t cross the road all that often i bet.
Good thing the camera was on the seat next to me because I slammed on the brakes and tried to fire off as many as i could.
They aren’t as sharp as I’d like… but they happened so it’s a happy day!
Aren’t the painted ones the coolest ones? I should have really focused on them… but it all went by so fast that i wasn’t really paying attention i was just clicking.
They were set on being happy no matter if it were 80 degrees and sunny or 30 degrees and snowy.
They could find the silver lining and there was no stopping them being exesively happy!
And why not they were meant for eachother and… heck they had the two best photographers this side of the solar system!!
Just putting up a little teaser of what promises to be many hundreds of pictures.
Here’s one of the scenes that I was specially proud of from recent trips
It was about 1 degree outside (not counting windchill) and I was heading out of town back to St. Louis that morning.
So like many of the pictures you’ll see in these upcoming posts I wasn’t about to get out of the car. But i set my settings skidded to a stop on the 1 inch of ice on the road and backed up and pulled forward to get the perfect pics
Finished up a photo shoot at the Canyons and was heading home and decided to take advantage of the first fallen snow of the year (a light dusting) and the unique light that was shining through on the fall colors.
Julie and Christopher got married on a snowy day In Provo
For a part of the pictures snow was coming down pretty hard
Julie was tough and stuck through some rough weather as we rushed through some cool pictures…
In the end they turned out awesome and unique as a result.
– I am not only experienced at this, I’m a long time veteran and very cautious, and a tad crazy.
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