It is a bit difficult to shoot stroboscopic photographs against a light background due to the compounding of exposures in-camera. You have to underexpose quite a bit to get results worth keeping.
(Special thanks to Kate & Sam for the amazing dancing robots!)
My thanks to everyone who stopped by to browse and comment on the small collection of “good things” here at catagraph.us over the past year.
The last of this series of photographs… and my favorite of the collection. It’s all about the curves.
This was once my favorite model of car. I’ve since moved on to idolizing the Lotus Esprit Turbo — primarily because it made an unforgettable appearance in the excellent first volume of Diane Duane’s So You Want To Be A Wizard? series.
I heard that driving a Camaro is a bit like driving a bathtub.
You can almost hear the brakes hissing.
Take a look at that beautiful rust! Just like the real thing.
I recently shot photographs of six Matchbox replica cars from 1983. These will be posted throughout the next week as a series. The textured surfaces of these aged toys are visually arresting — particularly in conjunction with the nuances of design and engineering abstracted from the larger originals.
(These were all shot using a Canon 20d, 24-70mm f2.8 zoom, and flash on a field-expedient lateral jig constructed from an inherited Tiltall tripod and clamps. Fun!)
