I’ve met Kenny while I was working on my own car at friends garage. We got the same idea - as we are all locked down we have lots of “free” time in our hands - let’s do some work on our cars 🚗
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Kenny is the happy owner of this VW BEETLE from 69’. This car was in his family since 1969 but it has been parked for over 20 years on the driveway. Unfortunately Kenny’s father has passed away recently and he never managed to put this car back into the original shape. It would be silly to get rid of it so decision was clear - full restoration time!!!😏
It happens that we have had something in common. I own Classic Car as well - Opel Rekord C 1971. It was his father dream and he decided to take over and finish the project. I was nicely surprised by Kenny and his idea of giving a new life into the VW BEETLE.
The idea was pretty simple - inspired by Kenny’s story I have decided to shoot small project and to treat it like a LIFESTYLE - EDITORIAL - ADVERTISING photoshoot.
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I must say it was real joy to shoot it. Obviously I had some obstacles and problems - being creative you do not actually think there is a problem. You just carry on and change/adapt things around so you can move on. Those “PROBLEMS” are key factors when you want to progress and develop new ways to shoot.
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Due to CORONAVIRUS I had to keep my distance and I had to work on my own but was it a problem? Not at all when you know what you are doing. You need to know how to set up the shoot yourself before you will get to work with the team.
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Because it was a small compact shoot I wasn’t shooting tether and during this very sunny day could be very useful thing to have beside you.
Few Behind the scene images for you so you will get the idea.
Shot on my NIKON D800 with my PROFOTO B1 with double diffused Octabox. Most of my shots were done with 50mm f/1.4
ISO 100, 50mm, f/2.8, 1/4000
Kenny as a portable C-Stand. Octabox was placed exactly above & slightly in-front of the engine. I cannot imagine to shoot it on any other light than PROFOTO (personal preferences) easy to set up easy to control = easy life.
ISO 100, 50mm, f/2.2, 1/320
Final set up was slightly different - Octabox was placed on the right hand side on the same hight so it can look like a sun gets through the back of the car and the black card is actually white on the other side was placed beside the doors much lower to bounce some of this back light back onto Kenny’s face. Even is was really sunny day I had to “help” the sun as it was around 2pm and I needed this sun to be much lower. Than you shoot into the light but I had to watch out so the light is just on the edge of the frame.
ISO 100, 50mm, f/2.2, 1/320 - Do not forget to have fun while shooting 😏😏😏
Behind the scenes - this was our location. You can see it was a very sunny midday. We did it in between 1-3pm. Profoto was placed high on the C-Stand pointing on the back of my subject. In the final set up it was much closer just under the roof and blue fabric that you can see on the left imaged. Depend on the position of my subject it went from left top corner to right one.
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