Spent an hour or two on the Bedford Embankment where a few out-of-the-ordinary cars had gathered. The Embankment has a combination of sodium lighting, strings of white tungsten bulbs and violet and green uplighters into the tree canopies. The light within these images is greater than can be seen with the human eye and obtained with tripod mounted long exposures. This difficult environment for photography is where the 5DMkII really comes into its own. The video preview on the large LCD is brilliant and lets me know almost exactly how the stills will come out before I hit the shutter. Virtually every shot comes out perfectly lit and sharp as a razor. And with such great vehicles to capture, the satisfaction of photography does not come much better than this :-) Check out the fire appliance in the side window of the Ford Anglia. You cannot see it but you can see the intermittent blue flashing light as it passed through the long exposure :-)

Obviously happy to pass on the full size images for a small donation to the equipment kitty of course :-) The images here are a much reduced 350K from the 20MB full size versions that can be supplied on disc. We can also supply truly awesome enlargements up to 20" x 30" poster size! Please email me at info@clevercaptures.com with any enquiries about these images.

We would really like to do a lot more of this type of photography so please shout out if you would like more of the same :-) It was fun - nice bunch of people too :-) Well organised Pikey! :-)

Peter

2010 Calendar Dates & Links:-

UK Roadster Nationals - Sunday 4th July 2010 - http://www.claphamclassicevents.co.uk/roadsternationals.htm

UK Pick-Up and Van Nationals - Sunday 15th August 2010 - http://www.claphamclassicevents.co.uk/pickupvan.htm

Twinwood End of Season Get Together - Sunday 5th September 2010 - http://www.claphamclassicevents.co.uk/gettogether.htm

PS - If you require "Alternative Art" generated from any of our images, please visit this gallery:- http://www.clevercaptures.com/Cars/Modified-Styles-Available where you will be able to see larger images of the various art styles available.