Automotive

Grease and Sweat

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Here are some photos from my Subaru shoot the other day. This time the focus was on aftermarket parts and accessories. We installed a new pair of Perrin Hella Horns to the front. All the images were shot on a Canon 5D Mark III with a 35mm 1.4L lens tethered into Capture One Pro 10.  

I hope you enjoy these images. I really love how they turned out. Car photography is quickly becoming one of my favorite things to shoot. Be on the lookout in the coming months for some more!

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Perrin Hella Horns
Installing Perrin Hella Horns on a Subaru WRX STI
This one (above) was my favorite image from the shoot

This one (above) was my favorite image from the shoot

Subaru WRX STI with Perrin Hella Horns

January Update

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This one is definitely a little late, but each month this year I'm going to try and give a brief update as to some of the projects I've done each month. January was a crazy one. I was coming out of a slow month of work (the holiday's always slow things down). The month started out with an instagram connection to local filmaker, Mike Vance (Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/mikevance). 

Next, was a shoot I did of one of my wife's friends. Her name is Neema, and she is a refugee from the Congo. You can read her story here: Neema. I did this and Mike's shoot right after I got my first canvas backdrop. I loved the tones and feel of it.

This next shoot was one for TOPs Magazine. This is a portrait of Renee Murphy. She is a news anchor here in Louisville for WHAS news. She was as nice in person as she is on TV!

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Next up was a concept shoot I did with my friends new Subaru STI. We wanted to capture some images that look like they could have been used in an advertisement. I love the look and feel of this image. This one shot took about 1 hour to shoot and 2+ hours to edit. I light painted with a Phottix Indra strobe and stacked the photos in Photoshop. I think the PSD (Photoshop file type) was over 3GBs. 

This was another shoot I did for TOPs. It is of "Super Mom" Chesson Hazelwood. Read the story here: http://www.topslouisville.com/Read/8939/Supermom%3A+Chesson+Hazelwood

This next shoot is for my friend's new company, Spartan. He is making awesome lid organizers and lid organizer mounting plates for Pelican 1510 and 1535 cases. I couldn't just have one photo because this product is awesome and I give it my highest recommendation. Seriously check it out! 

This was one of my favorite shoots. I wanted to challenge myself with lighting and I normally shoot with artificial light. This was all natural window light. I had a scrim up on camera right to diffuse the light even more. This was shot for the Voice Tribune's food issue. The restaurant featured here was the 502 Bar and Bistro.

Close to the end of the month now, I connected with local artist Mallory Mesiner. She makes lots of awesome drawings and paintings and does custom portraits! We did a few photos and a short promo video!

Last, but not least, we did a part 2 of my friends Subaru STI. This time the focus was one the car's details. I had to include a couple photos here cause this thing was a beast. 

Subaru WRX STI Part 2

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Last night, I finished up my Subaru shoot from a couple weeks ago. This time we focused on the insane details of this car. All these shots were photographed with one strobe, almost always overhead pointing down. I was going for a super dramatic look to give this car a really dark and mean look. I hope you enjoy the photos!

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Here are the photos from the other shoot

Subaru WRX STI

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Here are the final photos I took of my buddy's Subaru WRX STI. First off this car is an amazing machine. Just hearing this thing race down the highway is incredible. We wanted to make a short video and a set of photos that looked like they belonged in a car magazine or could be used for promotion from Subaru. 

*Disclaimer: I was not paid by Subaru for these photos, this was just a test shoot*

This first shot was the biggest composite and took the longest. This was shot on top of a parking garage rooftop late on a Sunday night. Security was nice enough to let us setup a "commercial" shoot in there garage. I wanted to highlight the front of the car closest to the camera. I took a couple base images with different exposures and settled for a slightly darker exposure. Then used a Phottix Indra 500 through a 7-foot softbox to highlight each part of the hood, bumper, wheel and side. I composited the photos in photoshop then applied a color grade. 

I did the same composite method for this one. This was shot in the parking garage. This wasn't my favorite of the two composite photos, but it still turned out pretty cool.

This last one was shot on our second run of shooting on the new bridge. Check out the video below to see the first run!

Subaru WRX STI - Teaser

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Last weekend, my buddies and I shot a car commercial and some promotional photos of a Subaru STI. We shot a rolling shot on the new bridge in Louisville, Ky and some photos on a parking garage roof. I'm still working on the photos so be on the lookout for those. Here is the final video.