The most recent project for me has been the rig shots I did with my car this past weekend with my friend who showed me the way.
Some info on my blog here: http://www.artbynicholas.com/?p=306
I will go into more specifics here on how to really accomplish them.
Tools needed:
•A 3 sections of (5 feet) 10-15 feet total of "boom" of 3" aluminum or carbon fiber pipe.
•Manfrotto suction mounts.
•Manfrotto magic arm
•3 other clamps for the pipe to hold onto the suction mounts, and the magic arm.
•Camera
•A 10-stop ND (neutral density) filter
•Patience
•A remote timed trigger (example - http://www.google.com …m=4&sqi=2&ved=0CFIQ8gIwAw)
One of the deceiving tricks to this is that you dont have to be going fast to accomplish these. Many of those in automotive magazines don't go 100mph down the freeway. Some do, but it depends on the type of shot they want to accomplish. So all variables are shot dependant.
These were late afternoon. Shot at 6 seconds. about 1mph. f/11-14 with the ND filter on @ 16mm. Full frame body and 16-35 lens.
The real trick is to drive on a surface thats been recently paved or is as smooth as you can find. and keep a steady speed.
The other trick is to photoshop out the rig, and you want to keep that in mind while composing the shot. You want the least amount of rig interfering with the car in frame as possible.
Example of rig before
http://bordumb.com …13164000%201289159979.png
Rig being setup
I plan on building my own this winter - preferably out of his tensile carbon fiber or fiberglass. The weight of the pole on this rig really put some pressure on the mount points of the car. I also think that contributed highly to the bounce factor of the camera. If I had a lighter weight rig, we could accomplish this going a lot faster and get better straight line shots.
So thats how that is done in a nutshell.
Can't thank my buddy enough for helping me out and showing me the way
