Porsche 911 GT1


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Porsche 911 GT1
Porsche 911

Image by nickwheeleroz
Strobist summary:

SB-28, full power, 24mm zoom, fired by PW into home made soft box, camera left.
SB-28, 1/2 power, 24mm zoom, fired by PW into home made soft box, camera right.
Sunpak 383, 1/8th power, fired by PW through cardboard grid for front fill.
Sunpak 383, 1/8th power, fired by PW through Ikea chopping board diffuser for front fill.
SB-28, full power, 24mm zoom, fired by PW into top of fiber optic lamp for background pattern.

Lighting Information:

I have been on a bit of an extended Flickr break for the past couple of months but I have been taking the odd shot now and again during that time. Hopefully I will get a bit more time this year to post but for now, I am going to put up a couple of the pictures I have sitting on my hard drive waiting for me to do something with them.

If you have added me as a contact or sent me Flickr mail in the past couple of months, please bear with me as I work through the backlog that has built up. I will get to them all eventually, I promise! :)

This picture was made possible following a holiday to the UK. While we were over there, we stayed with my Mum. Venturing into my old bedroom I uncovered a pile of old 1/18th scale model cars all neatly packed away in boxes. I remembered a few of them, but equally there were quite a few I had forgotten about. In particular I had collected a whole set of Le Mans GT cars, one of the best of which was this Porsche 911 GT1. As I only had limited space in the suit case to bring any of these models home (they are quite heavy), I had to choose the best four (well six actually, I slipped a couple into Keoula’s case). This is one of the one’s that made the cut.

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For the picture, I had originally planned to try lighting the car from underneath. I had seen a picture of a Lamborghini in a car magazine lit entirely from below and it looked fantastic. I began setting up by placing a sheet of gray acrylic on four large cotton reels over a black cloth. The plan was to put a flash under the acrylic sheet and see what it looked like. I went back to the photographic supply cupboard (junk pile) to get some more things and saw the top off my fiber optic lamp staring at me. I bet that would look good in the background I though and pulled it out of the cupboard. I then went about setting it up to test and ended up with the setup you see here.

By the time I came to placing a flash under the car I had run out of strobes. I still want to try the under light setup, but that will have to wait for the Mercedes CLK-GTR currently sitting next to the Porsche! :)

Setup shot here: Porsche 911 GT1 Setup

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Porsche 911 GT2
Porsche 911

Image by caroverload
Porsche 911 GT2

PORSCHE 911 RS 3,0L
Porsche 911

Image by Willy_G91
SENGER Philippe
EGGLY Pierre Alain
PORSCHE 911 RS 3,0L
1974

Tour auto 2009
France
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