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Hotrod
Passion, April 2013 A while a go I've realized what is it about automotive photography I really love. I love telling a story of passion with photographing cars. There are certain cars that ooze the passion their owners have poured into designing, or restoring, or customizing. That's what I've tried to tell with this image. This is taken in a garage in San Jose. The garage is home to two custom cars. The owner was working on one, getting it ready for a show, while I've spent some time photographing the other one. Photographing a car in a busy fabrication shop is tough. If you want to end up with a photo of "car in a garage", that's easy. If you want to end up with a story, that's hard. Did I accomplish it? I'll let you be the judge. What's easy is control the light. So, @ F/20, ISO 100, I've played with strobes to tell a story. There is one strobe sitting inside the cabin, connected to a Pocket Wizard. Another strobe is in my hand being fired manually ... 2-3 times in a span of 4 seconds.
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Make Room
Make Room Fall 100 Miglia || November, 2012 Now THIS is a garage. If anybody has trouble storing cars and everything else in a garage, this is the way to go! As part of the Fall 100 Miglia, Benoit Boningue and crew planned a stop at the Canepa Design in Scott's Valley. It's hard to even begin describing the place ... so I'll just start posting photos :) They have a showroom floor: Porsches (959's, 993, etc.), Mercedes-Benz Gullwing, too many to describe ... and that's just the sales floor. There is a museum upstairs that hosts Bruce Canepa's racing history, and a collection of rare and important race cars. There is a garage, with dozen's of cars in various stages of maintenance, repair, and to the metal restoration. If you need your rare 1960's Ferrari serviced, or a Duesenberg restored, I would highly recommend this place! ... and then there is storage! The rally was sponsored by 100|OCT and Club Sportiva.

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