RIG shot - SUPERCHARGED MUGEN Civic Si!

[jdm.squeek]

First time with the rig at night and second time overall with the rig, LOL. My friend was nice enough to bring his AMAZING MUGEN Si over and give it a good wash. The car sports a Jackson racing supercharger for power, rolls on CUSTOM fitted CCW classics with some Michelin rubber, whiling all sitting on also custom fitted coil overs. We had planned to take some still shots at the same location, (which BTW was literally across the street from my home ;)) but brought up the idea of the rig at night. He was kind of nervous at first but after some quick persuasion I was able to put the rig on and go home with this shot. I know there is still visible trace of where the rig was sitting but was just so anxious to see it without the rig attached. I'm already working on another copy with some more detailed editing of the rig. Shutter speed priority was set to 1/25 and ISO at 1250 which was a little noisy until ran threw Neat Image, shot at 10mm, AWB because I shot in SRAW, with the car traveling at about 25mph. Let me know what you think!

http://i258.photobucket.com/albums/hh250/jdm_squeek/Models/039copy_filteredcopy.jpg

[Novissime]

That's a great looking shot. Great sense of motion.

[PhotosGuy]

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[jlozano180]

Great picture overall, love the car and the location, but why would you run the car so fast? You should have used a slower shutter speed, like 5 to 8 seconds. ISO should be at like 100-200. You have a good rig, I would be scared to have my camera traveling at that speed. Also did you make that rig yourself or did you buy it?

[ProjektSol]

more pics on this civic on ccw!

[RadAL]

looks too sharp for some reason... or fake, dunno if thats a good thing or not.

[jdm.squeek]

Great picture overall, love the car and the location, but why would you run the car so fast? You should have used a slower shutter speed, like 5 to 8 seconds. ISO should be at like 100-200. You have a good rig, I would be scared to have my camera traveling at that speed. Also did you make that rig yourself or did you buy it?

I cant have the shutter that slow or it WILL come out very blurry. The rig does shake while the car is traveling, you have to remember these cars are lowered and have VERY stiff rides. Any slower on the shutter and there would not have been any sharp images. You can still utilize a high ISO to recover some light because the car IS attached to the vehicle in motion so no matter how high the ISO goes it will still capture motion in the image.

looks too sharp for some reason... or fake, dunno if thats a good thing or not.

Most rig shots look fake because the subject is very sharp. I also added some sharpening assistance from Neat Image program :cool:.

[northpointphoto]

I cant have the shutter that slow or it WILL come out very blurry. The rig does shake while the car is traveling, you have to remember these cars are lowered and have VERY stiff rides. Any slower on the shutter and there would not have been any sharp images. You can still utilize a high ISO to recover some light because the car IS attached to the vehicle in motion so no matter how high the ISO goes it will still capture motion in the image.

Most rig shots look fake because the subject is very sharp. I also added some sharpening assistance from Neat Image program :cool:.

The exposure and colors look good but the car looks soft to me and there isn't much motion blur going on in the bg.

Slow the shutter speed down to several seconds, drop the ISO to 100-200 and then push the car slowly. You dont have to be going fast to do a rig shot 1-2 mph with a slow shutter does the trick fine.

I wouldnt go over 5mph with a camera hanging off a pole attached to the car. Thats just a disaster waiting to happen.

[Kyle is raaddd]

First off, this is an AWESOME FA5!!!
I also wanna see some stills, I love CCW's.

That does seem VERY fast for a rig shot, I normally go about... 2mph

[jdm.squeek]

Thank You guys so much for the input! I guess that means my rig has passed the test, at one point we were spinning tires while accelerating to 30mph in that garage! Were going out again tonight to do it the right way. I still like the way this one came out though! And for some reason my manfrotto magic arm is kind of lose. If I apply a bit of pressure it moves. Do they all have this play in the arm or are they suppose to be rock solid?

[RaymondXTi]

I've seen this car before at one of the weekly meets I go to in Pembroke Pines. Thing is absolutely gorgeous, lucky you for getting to photograph it, haha. Very nice rig shot, I'm working on building mine now, just gotta find a pole.

[Nemesismachine]

If the "ride" is as custom as you say it is, why not adjust your dampen to something softer? We don't know what the car settings are, but we can see by the photos they could have been better. And 25mph is WAY too fast for a rig. Like others have said, if you roll it at 2mph with a longer shutter, you get a smoother and sharper shot.

I had a 93 civic on sportlines with illuminas, and yes the ride was very stiff. But to take pictures of it, I would pop the hood and the trunk and change the shocks from 5 or "baller" to 1. Makes it a lot easier to shoot when it's not on basically solid shocks.

[northpointphoto]

Thank You guys so much for the input! I guess that means my rig has passed the test, at one point we were spinning tires while accelerating to 30mph in that garage! Were going out again tonight to do it the right way. I still like the way this one came out though! And for some reason my manfrotto magic arm is kind of lose. If I apply a bit of pressure it moves. Do they all have this play in the arm or are they suppose to be rock solid?

My magic arms are rock solid. I believe it has a allen head screw at the pivot joint. Try tightening that down and see if the play goes away.

[jdm.squeek]

If the "ride" is as custom as you say it is, why not adjust your dampen to something softer? We don't know what the car settings are, but we can see by the photos they could have been better. And 25mph is WAY too fast for a rig. Like others have said, if you roll it at 2mph with a longer shutter, you get a smoother and sharper shot.

I had a 93 civic on sportlines with illuminas, and yes the ride was very stiff. But to take pictures of it, I would pop the hood and the trunk and change the shocks from 5 or "baller" to 1. Makes it a lot easier to shoot when it's not on basically solid shocks.

We are going to lower the rebound on the shock.

My magic arms are rock solid. I believe it has a allen head screw at the pivot joint. Try tightening that down and see if the play goes away.

I tried to tighten the allen screws but I cant tighten it anymore. Im I not strong enough?

[canonnoob]

looks too sharp for some reason... or fake, dunno if thats a good thing or not.
really? I thought it looked really really soft..

[northpointphoto]

I tried to tighten the allen screws but I cant tighten it anymore. Im I not strong enough?

Does it take a lot of force to move the magic arm when its "locked" or does it move when you just put a little force on it (ie hanging the camera)? I've never really tried to move the magic arm when its in the lock position.

[jdm.squeek]

Does it take a lot of force to move the magic arm when its "locked" or does it move when you just put a little force on it (ie hanging the camera)? I've never really tried to move the magic arm when its in the lock position.

With the weight of the camera on the magic arm, if the car goes over even a small bump the arm will drop slowly.

[Kyle is raaddd]

With the weight of the camera on the magic arm, if the car goes over even a small bump the arm will drop slowly.

Well man, that is pretty much going to happen regardless. The best thing to do is find smooth ground, do about a 1 second exposure, and push the car. Much safer as well.

[jdm.squeek]

Thanks for the advice. Im going to try it that way later. I'm going out tonight with a professional drift car for the rig!

[Kyle is raaddd]

Woo, I'm quite jealous of these cars you get to shoot haha.