Porsche 911 GT2

This is an old photo, shot for a 2nd hand story for the magazine's insert, known lovingly to the staff as the 'oily rag'. The insert no longer exists. It was cool while it lasted, and so were the cars I got to shoot. This is one of the coolest.

Aston Martin Vantage N400

This photo was shot for Cars In Action's PCOTY(Performance Car Of The Year) end of last year. I recently used it as my avatar, on the coolest automotive website out there (http://www.dieselstation.com/) and a mate asked me to post the picture. So I did. So now I'm posting it here. Hope you like.

Hey. Been a while since the last post. So here's another. These are two images of one of the coolest cars of recent times. The Mercedes C63 AMG Estate. Yup, an estate that's cool. This car is a beast, plus you have space for your kids and dogs. Awesome.

Anyway, the first image is the one that ended up in the mag, and the second one, is one that I decided to just go and shoot for myself. I prefer the second. Here ya go.

And here's Nr 2:

Audi TTS

I was lucky enough to bring this home over the previous weekend. One Saturday I took it into Newtown for a bit of a photoshoot. My good friend Carsten, and my girlfriend, Claudia helped me on this one. I must say, I am kinda happy with the shots. The whole grungy downtown look really worked well with the bright yellow TT. And what an awesome car this is.

Grounded Boat

We just got back from a holiday in Mozambique. Had an absolutely awesome time. We spent Christmas and New Years there, and only got back on the 3rd of Jan. We stayed close to a town called Inhambane. It is one of the oldest towns in Southern Africa, and the oldest port(if I'm not mistaken) in Southern Africa. The town dates back to around 1550.

The area in and around the port is very flat, so there in quite a difference n water levels between high tide and low tide. It is possible to walk quite a few hundred metres out on the 'sea bed' at low tide. A lot of boats sit on the sea bed at low tide, and this is one of them. The 'Dina', as well asmost of these grounded boats are no longer in use. I shot a RAW image and processed it several times, to make up this HDR image.

I'll post some more Mozam stuff soon I hope.



Cheers

HDR ish

I recently got my hands on Photomatix Pro 3. It's a programme used to create HDR images. HDR stands for High Dynamic Range, and the idea is to replicate the difference between highlights and shadows the way the human eye sees it.

I took a shot of a car that I shot recently but never used. I processed the RAW file seven times, each time altering the exposure by 1/2 a stop. These images then ranged from 1 1/2 stops under to 1 1/2 stops over. The programme lets you play around.

This is the result. A lot of tweaking is still required, but it's not half bad, I reckon.

Audi S3 Sportback. Great Car.

Another Portraite...of the same guy!

Pollard


This was 2 or 3 nights after the last shot was taken, same place,same lights, slightly different setup. Brad was ready to go out and find himself a lady friend, which is why he's dressed as he is. We ended up getting some beers and just playing around with the lights again. He never ended up going out.