A busy week with a bunch of different shoots.

Everything from product to Automotive CSI.

See attached shots!

This was a tough shoot…

10:00am – I fly into QLD – Surfers Paradise for Top Gear and meet with journalist Ben Smithhurst.

12:00pm – We travel for 2 hours to pick up both cars.

2:00pm – we travel back to the city and begin scouting locations for later in the afternoon. Zero shots taken at this time.

2:30pm – Grab lunch

3:00pm – We travel up the mountains for some cornering shots.

Jo is currently training hard for the upcoming Olympics.

Here are some recent promotional images I shot of Jo.

Some more work for Top Gear magazine. This time out on the track with a R35 GT-R, Lamborghini LP552 and a V10 Audi R8.

While trying to shoot some action shots of the GT-R the Stig was having trouble getting it sideways. He drove over to me and I said ‘cant get this thing sideways huh?’ The Stig looks back at me and shakes his head. He was having no trouble in the R8 and the 2WD Lambo.

Not a bad day at the office.

I was lucky enough to shoot Wheels magazines COTY (Car Of The Year). A huge amount of time and energy goes into picking the car. 57 cars were tested this year and the Golf GTI was the stand out.

Here are some shots from a recent shoot for Top Gear Magazine at Holden’s Lang Lang Proving Ground in Melbourne.
Its pretty strange working with the Stig.
I explain to the him that I was worried about standing in a particular location to get an action shot. At the mention of him hitting me, he looks directly at me and shakes his head. No words, not a sound… and in true Stig style, he drifted the car past me 4 times perfectly.

Retouching is one of those things that seems to always be kept under the rug. Unfortunately it has become a standard in this digital age… and to be honest, I would prefer to be outside shooting rather than being in front of the computer going square-eyed. Sometimes, though its unavoidable. Here are 2 examples.

This first image was shot for NRMA – Open Road Magazine.
I had to shoot a cover shot of 4 cars. I was only given about 1/2 an hour to shoot the cars and the only elevated position I could get had a pretty ugly background.