It’s been a while, huh? The last couple of months have been crazy behind the scenes at Speedhunters, and it has been tough to stay on top of things. What I’ve been most looking forward to though over the last of weeks though, is finally getting a good ol’ fashioned #IAMTHESPEEDHUNTER post together. No themes, nothing fancy, just a selection of speed from around the world…
(above) Anyone who has tried their hand at remote camera work will know just how tricky and potentially expensive it can be. However, the stunning reward outweighed the risk here.
You don’t need to risk body and lens though for a good shot, sometimes you just need the right time and place.
2013 has really seen the film style colour palette rise to the fore, and why not when it looks this good.
A little bit of knowledge and experience can go a long way towards catching something as impressive as this. Learn to really watch what the cars are doing as they pass, and wait for your moment.
More subtle film style processing which works well with the subject matter.
I love how loose this image is framed. Just a reminder that you don’t always need to fill the frame…
… but if you do, try to make sure something exciting is happening!
A clever use of lines and a slow shutter create an interesting result. Again, this all comes back to really learning to look again. How easy would it have been to just pan the car normally?
The foliage in the foreground helps to provide an added element of interest to what would be ‘just another’ panning shot. This way however, almost makes you feel like you’re just catching a glimpse of a rare car blasting by.
A quiet moment during an endurance race, where the drivers and teams are the real heroes of the event.
That extends beyond endurance racing too – never be afraid to include people in the frame.
The silhouettes here are just beautiful against the light coming through the garage door. The black and white conversion is also on point.
The colour grading and subtle lighting are what attracted me to this. It’s something our own Sean Klingelhoefer is a master at and when done right is rather effective.
Inspired by Larry’s recent trip in Ole Orange Bang, Doug decided to go for his own road trip and document it too. The composition is balanced and the exposure is solid with lots of texture and detail.
Finally, we wrap things up with Brad’s out-of-focus Mustang shot. By locking your AF onto the car, you can then use your left hand to pull the focus front or back to capture the rain drops.
That was rather gratifying this week, and I hope you enjoyed looking at these as much as I did. #IAMTHESPEEDHUNTER will be taking a short holiday for a couple of weeks, but fear not, it’ll be back and stronger than ever before.
Safe shooting.
Paddy McGrath
Twitter: @PaddyMcGrathSH
Instagram: speedhunters_paddy
paddy@speedhunters.com
About #IAMTHESPEEDHUNTER
We created #IAMTHESPEEDHUNTER to allow you the opportunity to share your skills and car culture experiences from around the globe with the rest of the Speedhunters audience.
How do you get involved? It’s simple…
Flickr - Join our #IAMTHESPEEDHUNTER Flickr Group and share your favourite photos with us and others.
Instagram – Follow us on Instagram at @TheSpeedhunters and tag your own car culture images with #IAMTHESPEEDHUNTER
Twitter – Follow us on Twitter at @SPEEDHUNTERS and share your tweets with the #IAMTHESPEEDHUNTER hashtag.
Tumblr – Visit our Tumblr page to view the latest #IAMTHESPEEDHUNTER tagged images.
E-Mail – If you’ve been to a cool event and captured some amazing images, be sure to e-mail them to us on iamthespeedhunter@speedhunters.com and tell us a little bit about the event. The images need to be a minimum of 800×533 pixels.
Have you submitted already but yet been featured? Here are some tips to help you…
DO – Tell us your name!
DO – Submit your best work, regardless of when it was taken
DO – Take your time shooting and consider each detail
DO – Try to submit each image no larger than 1000PX wide
DON’T – Put a huge watermark on it. We’ll make sure you’re credited
DON’T – Send us huge image files that kill our e-mail system
DON’T – Send us scary ZIP or RAR files