MINI COOPER :: North American Motoring

djafactor · #1 12-10-2005, 10:43 PM

Hi,

DID's work is exceptional so with inspiration my buddy and I did some experimentation tonite. Still working on getting the sharpness down (my camera mount is a bit bouncy). I also made a mistake of using too high of an ISO setting (didn't realize it until later). The car is filthy cause of all the snow. I've got some other ideas for mounting that i'm going to develop. Anyway, what do you all think?

Amit

**Motor On** · #2 12-10-2005, 10:58 PM

watch the road!! Awsome pics

what did you use for a camera mount?

djafactor · #3 12-10-2005, 11:06 PM

no road, my parking garage. It's a home made camera mount, still trying to figure out how DID does his full car shots, they are amazing.

Amit

MINI Monkey · #4 12-10-2005, 11:27 PM

Good shot!

Tit · #5 12-11-2005, 12:05 AM

HAHAHa....that's awesome!!

Funny too...'cause he's prolly only doing 10mph...

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**blacknblue** · #6 12-11-2005, 12:11 AM

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watch the road!!

I agree but not for the reasons others may think.
You might've only been driving under 10mph but it's the appearance of agressive and/or safe driving you might want to keep in mind.

That's what I really like about the first pic. Nice job at motion photography.

djafactor · #7 12-11-2005, 12:16 AM

Don't worry, car is not even running. I'd say car was really moving at a speed of 0.5mph LOL

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I agree but not for the reasons others may think.
You might've only been driving under 10mph but it's the appearance of agressive and/or safe driving you might want to keep in mind.

That's what I really like about the first pic. Nice job at motion photography.

ScuderiaMini · #8 12-11-2005, 12:55 AM

nice pics

dickdavid · #9 12-11-2005, 05:33 AM

Nice pics but wash your car next time...

Note my siggy pic below.

fj0 · #10 12-11-2005, 06:43 AM

To get the whole car you'll need a longer mount/wider lens. And you need to post-process the rig out of the image afterwards.

Crashton · #11 12-11-2005, 01:20 PM

Very nice work!

And yes do wash the cars.

Chuck

cooldaddy · #12 12-11-2005, 04:33 PM

such a wrong way to hold the steering wheel yet such a great pic

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dave · #13 12-11-2005, 08:57 PM

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I also made a mistake of using too high of an ISO setting (didn't realize it until later).

Yeah, I've done that too. It happens.

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The car is filthy cause of all the snow. I've got some other ideas for mounting that i'm going to develop.

You sound like me a little over a year ago. This was my first shot and my MINI was a little dirty my first time too (June of '04 IIRC).

Take it FWIW, but cleaner pictures aside, it's a very good practice to be doing this with a clean car.

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Anyway, what do you all think?

Pretty good for a first attempt. You got more of the car in then I did.

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but it's the appearance of agressive and/or safe driving you might want to keep in mind.

I totally agree with that sentiment. It's one of the first things that came to my mind to.

djafactor · #14 12-12-2005, 05:53 AM

Thanks for the comments. Like I said these were experiments, the weather has been bad all week so the car was filthy.

I can understand the comment on "agressive driving" This was not the intent, just more for humor/wonder. I'm not an agressive driver by nature, leave it all on the track

. Regardless, I'll remove the two shots from the original post.

again thanks for the comments, i'll be attempting more as soon as the weather gets better.

DID like I said before, your work was the inspiration...thanks!

cheers

Amit

KiLO · #15 12-12-2005, 10:18 AM

Nice shots everyone...

What kind of mounts are you guys using?

dave · #16 12-12-2005, 10:28 AM

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What kind of mounts are you guys using?

That's generally a pretty sensitive question. Most of the people who do this, myself included, wind up investing a lot of time, effort, and money into the design and fabrication of their rigs, and as such aren't that open to sharing them.

fj0 · #17 12-12-2005, 10:32 AM

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That's generally a pretty sensitive question. Most of the people who do this, myself included, wind up investing a lot of time, effort, and money into the design and fabrication of their rigs, and as such aren't that open to sharing them.

You are useless David, useless!

**blacknblue** · #18 12-12-2005, 11:16 AM

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You are useless David, useless!

Dave doesn't want to let on how he dangles the D70 from a heavy-duty fishing pole, that way you don't notice the fishing line.

dave · #19 12-12-2005, 11:29 AM

Yeah, just hang one of those out the sunroof.

FYI, a trained greyhound running along side the car with a camera strapped to its back doesn't work out as well as one might think either.

djafactor · #20 12-12-2005, 11:40 AM

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FYI, a trained greyhound running along side the car with a camera strapped to its back doesn't work out as well as one might think either.

LOL....Neither does strapping it on to a Baby Indian Elephant.

I agree, it took me a while to figure out a rig, did research all over the web and couldn't find squat. Now that i've got something to work with the ideas are begining to really flow. Till next time....

cheers

Amit

dr_phatcity · #21 09-24-2007, 09:32 PM

The only real way to get shots like this is to use a rhodesian ridgeback. They have less of the spine snap so the pictures come out cleaner.