Straight Out Of Camera Week 10 "Boys Toys"

This weeks theme was chosen by Bruce, and was "Automobile" . I have no idea what this American word means so I just assumed he meant Cars ;-) For this image I thought I'd try a new technique and light paint the vehicle in question. Eje has done an awesome shot for this theme "Make sure you check it out) with some studio lighting that produced some really nice highlights on his CAR, so I thought I'd paint mine with a softbox for some nice highlights. So here is my Nissan Skyline GTR in all its glory having been painted with light !

Nice isn't it !
The more observant of you will notice that all is not as it seems !
As I don't have the ability to crap £50 notes  have not won the lottery this car is out of my budget. But the 1:16 Scale Radio Controlled version of it that belongs to my son made a good "model" for the shot.  The new technique I was trying out is called "Forced Perspective" and it's a way to trick the brain into believing things are bigger than they actually are.

The image is still light painted, using a tiny little DIY softbox stuck on the end of my torch (Flash-light for the American goons)

I'm becoming very aware now of  how important Photoshop is in helping me realise the creative concepts that pop into my mind on random occasions. That's why I'm enjoying this project so much, because it's forcing me to come up with ways to get similar creative effects without the aid of post production. Couple of little things in this image. Firstly you can just see where the "fake" tarmac (asphalt) that I used ends, this was just a piece of black textured paper. And secondly if you look hard you can see the leg of my tripod because the camera was slung upside down below it so I could get it close enough to the ground. Hope you enjoyed the image, please feel free to leave a comment, and oblige me a huge favour and check out the work from the other guys who's links you can find below.

Chris Lane  

Eje Gustafsson

Bruce A. Ulrich

Mr Pemberton

Doug Patterson

David Baker