Shaun Quinian at Morguefile has written an article that will be interesting for anyone who has looked at Top Gear magazine and the like and wondered “how did they get that shot?”.
Photographing moving vehicles
A technique that instantly invokes emotion in a photograph is the addition of blur or motion. I’ve probably read a small forest worth of automotive magazine’s in recent years, and when I do see a photo of a car that pop’s out of a page, I investigate what the photographer has done to achieve this. I decided that a high percentage of these stand out photos involved photography whilst moving, or having the camera mounted in or on a car. This places the main subject, the car, in its natural environment, and creates motion and blur, giving the subject a sense of speed and direction.
It is quite a detailed tutorial and provides an insight into this photography style that is interesting even if you have no interest in vehicles at all. Damian has a car mount for his camera, hmmm … maybe we should give it a go …
cars, vehicles, photography, tips
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There wouldn’t be many bugs on a rear pointing camera.
Ew… I’m not into picking splattered bugs off of my camera
Ha, good point. I guess he uses heavy duty filters!