Zoomin'by
CVetteComment: This is my Mazda6 in front of a neon store front in a mall parking lot. I wanted to try something similar to
Cruzin' by
bruski and
Speed Demon by
cooliak.
I had to use the 10 second delay, press the shutter, run around, jump in the car, drive, stop and repeat. My camera doesn't have a remote but in the future I could use a USB cable to connect it to a laptop for remote shooting (if I had a laptop). That would be ideal, then I could just drive around and shoot.
I didn't want to mount to any body panels or anything that was painted. I looked underneath and found a vertical bracket attached to the frame, bought slotted angle iron and mounted a 4 foot bracket. It could use some improvement since many shots were blurry and it whips a little.
Because the bracket had some flex to it, I did have to find smooth pavement and drive slow. The hardest part was finding interesting lights with little to no traffic around (so as not to whack the camera hanging 4 feet out). This was shot at about 5mph.
Setup 1
Setup 2
Thanks to everyone who commented and took the time to vote. I hope to improve on this type of shot in the future.
Message edited by author 2007-12-04 19:57:51.