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Strobe photography using a single Einstein Strobe with a 24" Westcott collapsible beauty dish attached. I took several shots and combined them in Photoshop using the "LIGHTEN" blend mode on all layers except my base layer, I then put a black layer mask and then painted (revealed) the light exposure in for each exposure.
Strobe photography using a single Einstein Strobe with a 24" Westcott collapsible beauty dish attached. I took several shots and combined them in Photoshop using the "LIGHTEN" blend mode on all layers except my base layer, I then put a black layer mask and then painted (revealed) the light exposure in for each exposure.
This old beat-up bug was been rotting away next to the tracks, but the New Hope and Ivyland GP-30 looks nice and clean, ready for the days duties.
Yashica Mat 124G with Kodak Portra 160.
Click here for a rear view of the same car made with an Olympus XA2 using expired Ektachrome 200.
In a remote junkyard in the desert, this Bug sits, passing time. Added yellow light from under the back bumper and added white light on top for a look that almost represents a smiley face.
I posted a lot from this shoot, I was excited with the digital results, with having so many people involved, I feed off that kind of energy, gets me all hyped, I bounce around on a shoot like that, giddy.
And in those posts I talked a lot about the shoot, about the gang I brought along to the shipping yard, what I was thinking about using digital.
What I didn't talk about was how I knew about this shipping yard in the first place.
2009 I was very early into my career as a set medic, was really only doing it part-time, not a lot of work for me there, just yet. Still working on the ambulance, taking time off to work on set, taking even more time off to meet new folks and take pictures.
I did some days on a show called 1000 Ways to Die, they liked me enough, one of the producers hired me for another show called Catch It Keep it.
Basically, we have a prize. A moped, say. We will try to destroy that prize by throwing it off a roof. The job of the contestants is to save that prize from destruction. If they succeed, they keep the prize!
Eventually, we started calling the show (amongst ourselves, that is) "Build a Box, Win a Prize", as that ended up being the most effective, and most popular method for saving the prize.
Where might we film such a show? A show where we drop mopeds off of rooftops, blow a pyramid of beer up with detonation cord? Launch a barbecue with a giant slingshot?
Why, an unused shipping yard over near downtown LA!
Goddamn, we had some fun there. We used liquid nitrogen on one prize, Molotov cocktails on another, and we got to play with it all before actually shooting, so I do have photos in my archive of folks throwing Molotov cocktails...had to test different accelerants, see. Science, SEE?
By the end of the show, I was in pretty good with the crew. They didn't mind me showing up on a saturday to use our set, especially since I brought four very attractive ladies with me.
It's rare I'm comfortable enough with a film crew to bring my hobbies out into the open, but that show was kooky and low budget and we all had a hilarious time...you ever see me in person, ask me about the time we blew up a refrigerator and the door shot out a good 200 feet at probably 60mph...right at us...
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Strobe photography using a single Einstein Strobe with a 24" Westcott collapsible beauty dish attached. I took several shots and combined them in Photoshop using the "LIGHTEN" blend mode on all layers except my base layer, I then put a black layer mask and then painted (revealed) the light exposure in for each exposure.
I passed this fiery Bug hedaing to Rock Hill on the sideof 161 and just had to turn around to shoot it.
Apparently its trunk is on fire.
The light was just right when I walked pass this bug again. One day I'll meet the owner.
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A rusty 1960s Volkswagen Type 1 ‘Beetle’ sits perched high up on an old truck body at an automotive workshop outside the town of Argostoli, on the Ionian island of Kefalonia, Greece. I had previously visited this workshop in 2019 and found a similar VW in slightly better condition (this one: www.flickr.com/photos/170082019@N03/54039030162/in/datepo...). I assumed this Beetle was the same car, but on closer inspection, it is a different vehicle. This Type 1, although rusty and missing a few original pieces, will no doubt provide a decent parts donor for someone.
I'm going to New York City
And I'm leaving on a train
If you want to stay behind
Wait til I get back again.
Today is grey skies
Tomorrow is tears
You'll have to wait 'til yesterday is here.
- Yesterday Is Here, Tom Waits
1958 VW Beetle, right hand drive, with ragtop.
Photographed in Arizona, at sunset.
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A nicely-patina’d 1963 Volkswagen 1200 Type 1 ‘Beetle’ W/ ragtop sunroof. A LHD example, first registered in the U.K. in March 2023, using an age-related registration; “XMW 464A”. This vehicle is possibly an original U.S.-specified export model, based on those specific curved chrome bumpers.
Spotted outside Scarborough, North Yorkshire, U.K.