Night Shooting Jets in Yorkshire!

Thumbnail image for Night Shooting Jets in Yorkshire! by Neill October 14, 2009

If you’re based in the UK and can get to The Yorkshire Air Museum on Satruday 17th October, there’s a chance to get up close and do some night shooting for the aircraft. Plus, we’ll be there with a mountain of powerful Elinchrom lighting kit from The Flash Centre to light up the pretty Mirage [...]

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Mark Scheuern – Motorsport Photographer

Thumbnail image for Mark Scheuern – Motorsport Photographer by Neill October 8, 2009

The latest Driving Images interview is with USA based motorsport shooter, Mark Scheuern. If you’re a fan of IndyCar, ALMS or the American historic racing scene, you’ll have seen his work. Here’s what he had to say about shooting cars.

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Ayrton Senna – Rally Driver

Thumbnail image for Ayrton Senna – Rally Driver by Neill October 1, 2009

Here’s another magazine cover that inspired me with car photography when I was young. I grew up in the era of Porsche 930 Turbos, Group B rally cars, Escorts and Tyrrell F1 cars. The magazine I read in my bedroom was Cars and Car Conversions, cutting my teeth on articles about porting heads, jetting carbs. [...]

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Shooting Supercars Photo Workshop – 30th October.

Thumbnail image for Shooting Supercars Photo Workshop – 30th October. by Neill September 15, 2009

You can now book your place on our Shooting Supercars Photography Workshop online with The Flash Centre. We’ll be working with Canon UK and The Flash Centre to give you a great oportunity to shoot some exotic supercars courtesy of 6th Gear Experience. Full details after the jump

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Tim Andrew – Car Photographer

by Neill September 9, 2009

In the first of a new series of interviews with professionals working in car photography and the industry of illustrating vehicles, Driving Images catches up with UK based car photographer Tim Andrew about his long career shooting cars, what’s in his bag and what the future holds for car photographers.

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Two Great Cameras for Car Photography?

Thumbnail image for Two Great Cameras for Car Photography? by Neill August 20, 2009

Yesterday, Canon announced the new Canon G11 and Powershot S90. Over the last few years, I’ve nearly always carried some kind of compact Canon camera around with me, but since I sold my last Ixus (very bad decision), I’ve been without something to grab those moments with. So how will they stack up as car [...]

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How It All Started For Me

Thumbnail image for How It All Started For Me by Neill July 30, 2009

This is the front cover of the publication that started me photographing cars. Back in 1985, Car Magazine published a softback called simply Car Photo. In it, there were shots by eight Car Magazine photographers

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That Ken Block Phenomenon

Thumbnail image for That Ken Block Phenomenon by Neill July 9, 2009

If you’re into cars and video, you’d have to be dead not to have heard of Ken Block and his Subaru Gymkana videos. He seems to be replacing the late Colin McRae as the Subaru promotional tool of choice. Regardless of your opinion of Ken’s driving (and there are plenty of “I could do that” [...]

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Off Camera Elinchrom Lighting Video

by Neill July 2, 2009

Lighting is a permanent issue for location car photography, especially if you want to travel with the minimum of weight and gear. Traditionally, location lighting bigger than strobes has needed mains power, but this kit by Elinchrom looks superb. If you’re intimidated by big off camera lighting kits, this video by The Flash Centre gives [...]

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Car Photography 101 – Keep a Lightbulb File

Thumbnail image for Car Photography 101 – Keep a Lightbulb File by Neill June 30, 2009

The principle of this one is simple. Just as my wife has a bag full of hair stylist shots every time she hits the hair dresser, start a folder for car photography ideas. Start thinking like a car photographer. Every time you see a great car shot, keep it in a file. If you’re online, [...]

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