toolbox

Hey guys,
Every year I try and take my 98 out and shoot some pics, and I thought you guys might like to check them out. I'm a photo geek, so I always have fun with this. Weather could have been better...I almost canceled because there was a pretty good thunderstorm going all afternoon, but it cleared up enough in the evening that I decided to go ahead and take the car out and take my chances. If anyone wants technical details just let me know, and I'd be happy to share. These are a couple of my favorites, but there's a bigger set on 1960oldsmobile.com..















Cheers,
Scott

BIGJERR

Very Nice!!!!!!! Please check out the links below for a way to share your car and picture with the olds world..........Send high rez pics to the email addy!



https://classicoldsmobile.com/forums...light=calendar

https://classicoldsmobile.com/forums...ndar-sale.html

Lady72nRob71

WOW! GREAT pictures!!
The "bad" weather nearby really set the stage for those. #1, 3, & 4 are my faves.
What area were these taken? Must be nice to have such a place so close by...

Jamesbo

Great, Thanks for sharing, She's a beauty

cutlassgal

Great pics!! Very beautiful!!

toolbox

Hey, thanks...will do!

toolbox

Thanks! I agree...clouds can really add something to shots like these (as long as the rain stays away ). These were taken in the Bitterroot Valley in western Montana. And yes, it really is great having this kind of scenery so close by. I love hiking, and it's only about a 15 minute drive to some pretty good trails that go up the drainages of those mountains. That particular spot is actually right on the edge of town...believe it or not, there's a KFC about 30 yards to the right, and a grocery store about 100 yards to the left . Just don't tell anyone...don't want to ruin the magic .

toolbox

Got one more...did some post work on this one in CS3 just for fun .

redoldsman

Beautiful car and the photography is outstanding. We don't see many 60 models on here. This could be a candidate for Big Jerr's 2011 calender.

Cecil Anderson

Nice photos =We have the weather here in England for photos, but a real shortage of Olds Andy

BIGJERR

X2! I will be taking submissions starting this fall or anytime you get a good picture.......the bigger the better!

Lady72nRob71

Excellent job! I am a photo nut myself, but there very limited places to photograph a car around here in the concete jungle. Montana is on my 'must see' list.

How did you light the car up in this particular shot? Looks like a streetlight to the left??

Oldsguy

Exquisite photos of an exquisite vehicle. I love the depth of field in them, almost three dimensional.

55olds98holiday

Nice looking 60. One you don't see enough of.

toolbox

Thanks!
No lights around the area...I brought my own . The car was lit by a single Norman 200b pack/head (at 200 watt/seconds) first in an 86" parabolic umbrella, then when the wind got too strong I just used the regular reflector. Used a grid on a couple of them to control spill. All were either shot with a 70-200/2.8IS or Sigma 15-30mm ultra wide on my Canon 1Ds. Used medium apertures for the shots with flash (f5.6-f8) and f2.8 for the ambient light shots. As much as anything, this was an experiment to see how the umbrella would light a car...I've only used it light group portraits at weddings up until now.

toolbox

Thanks! A big part of that look is the fact that I underexposed the background in them using the power of the flash...it creates a lot of separation between the subject and the background. Using the ultra wide on a full frame camera helps too .

toolbox

Thanks, and I agree...mine is the only one anywhere around here that I'm aware of. I've only ever seen two other up close and in person...one in a junkyard, the other on the way there, sadly...

Lady72nRob71

And I was thinking to myself "no way he was using an umbrella to shoot a car"...
Results were outstanding with it.

Yellowstatue

He said "it was threatening rain"

toolbox

Ah, but it's not just any umbrella . It's a PLM (Parabolic Light Modifier) by Paul Buff. At 86" it's almost comically big...I really wish I would have taken a setup shot with it, it's really enormous. For more info on them check this thread out on Fred Miranda:
http://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic/805037/0
It's 19 pages long...lots of reading, but also lots of info on them.

And here's my mini-review...
http://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic/816185/0

It's such a huge and efficient light source I think it might even work to light a car in full daylight if you have enough power and feather it just right. I've got a Whilte Lightning X3200 I'd love to try with this.

Still haven't used the diffuser yet...come to think of it, I'm not sure where I put it . There's a version 2 coming out pretty soon too.

toolbox

:d:d:d

Lady72nRob71

Reminds me of the ol' gun-in-the-umbrella-trick...

Wow - that IS big. How would you light it up to take a picture of it?
Glad the wind did not pick up - there would have been no stopping it.
BTW, that thing would hide one heck of a gun!