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I'd been meaning to try something like these images for a while now. I had really wanted to do them around twilight so there would also be colour in the sky and now that I've done these images I'd possibly also choose a faster shutter so that perhaps the bridge might be slightly recognisable in the image?

I was in the city with my tripod shooting the 1440 challenge so as I was going to drive home (around 8PM) over the Sydney Harbour Bridge I decided to give this a try...

Anyway the technique for the following is:
- attach the ultra wide angle lens to the camera
- setup the tripod inside the car so that the top is poking through the sunroof and thus the camera is outside the car pointing forward over the bonnet (I know scary... )
- attach the remote trigger to the camera so it can be triggered by hand inside the car
- set an aperture for good depth of field (I chose f/16) - although at 8mm this isn't really very necessary - but I was also making sure I'd get a reasonably long shutter speed (I wasn't sure just how bright the lights would be)
- focus at something about 5m away and then lock the focus to manual (I didn't want the camera to try and auto focus each time I take a shot)
- start driving and just press the remote trigger to take the shots at "appropriate" times

C&C encouraged

This first is whilst driving along the Western Distributor before the bridge - I liked what happened to the tall glassy office building on the right



The second is whilst on the deck of the Sydney Harbour bridge

I am not sure what the Police/RTA would say about your set up but the results are very interesting and appealing.

I am not sure what the Police/RTA would say about your set up but the results are very interesting and appealing.

Ditto!

Got to love the spur of the moment creativity in this!

zafra52 wrote:

I am not sure what the Police/RTA would say about your set up but the results are very interesting and appealing.

Ditto!

- I drove pretty normally - perhaps slower than normal and more smoothly. I just had the trigger in my had and pressed it every now and then - it wasn't like I could look at the screen or viewfinder whilst driving

Big V wrote:Got to love the spur of the moment creativity in this!

You've just got to try some of these wacky things that pop into your head I say

I think the first one is the best . Thanks for telling us your set up . I too wonder what the Police would say if you had been pulled over.

Jeff

Nicely done Rodney.

I've always wanted to shoot a nice car like this (with multiple flash etc) and preferably with a borrowed gyro via Gerry....

One of the useful things (not particularly practical) is to set a very slow shutter and push the car manually so that the vibrations from the engine doesn't affect the image...

Remorhaz wrote:

zafra52 wrote:

I am not sure what the Police/RTA would say about your set up but the results are very interesting and appealing.

Ditto!

- I drove pretty normally - perhaps slower than normal and more smoothly. I just had the trigger in my had and pressed it every now and then - it wasn't like I could look at the screen or viewfinder whilst driving

I was more concerned by what they would think about having a camera protruding from your sunroof. I wouldnt have thought you would be so irresponsible as to use the screen/viewfinder whilst driving....