***Night Photoshoot: 2007 BMW 118i vs 1992 BMW 318i Touring***

[cawimmer430]

Participated in a little night shooting a couple of hours ago with Patrick. The 1992 318i Touring is his winter beater.

I'm not to happy with the pictures to be honest. The weather was freezing cold which made staying out in the open hell. There is no way I can reliably operate my camera with winter gloves, even thin ones. Furthermore the lighting conditions near the chapel were terrible and I could only get the camera to measure contrast and sharpness with the help of a powerful xenon flashlight which belonged to Patrick. Sometimes I used manual focus with intelligent guess work regarding sharpness based on simple gut feeling when looking through the eyepiece at a distance where the flashlight was useless. It was that dark.

Some of the pictures near the chapel look like they were shot in the day - they were not. It was so dark you could hardly see anything. We had a bit of soft moonlight aiding us but the daylight affect was achieved through bulb photography which allows me, with the help of a remote control, to keep the shutter open for as long as I want. Some of the images were shot with the shutter open for almost 2 minutes - and that's how the daylight affect was created.

Anyway, here are the pictures.

 

[NarutoRamen]

Awesome pics Christian. I especially like the one with the headlights.

 

[Giannis]

Fantastic job Christian!

Can you please post this pic in much much bigger resolution for personal wallpaper use?

 

[klier]

Very nice Wimmer! Make them in full HD so I can put them on my PS3

 

[Nikos120i]

Very artistic photos! Good job mate!

 

[ree]

Great photoshoot Christian. It's sad that the lightning was that bad. Maybe you have to try to take such shot earlier in the evening with some rest light at the sky. Have you tried an external flash light? Or maybe using more powerful lights…

 

[Pekka]

Fantastic job Christian!

Can you please post this pic in much much bigger resolution for personal wallpaper use?

When winter is over, I can give you the whole car

 

[mayham85]

good job i loved photos thanks

 

[Giannis]

When winter is over, I can give you the whole car

No, thanks! I already drive a Volvo. A station wagon would be just perfect

 

[NarutoRamen]

I'll take it Pekka...if you can ship it to the US.

 

[cawimmer430]

Very nice Wimmer! Make them in full HD so I can put them on my PS3

Which images do you want? Like I said, I am not too happy with them but if you want them in wallpaper size let me know.

 

[cawimmer430]

Fantastic job Christian!

Can you please post this pic in much much bigger resolution for personal wallpaper use?

Here you go.

http://img197.imageshack.us/i/dsc0065kopie.jpg/

 

[cawimmer430]

Great photoshoot Christian. It's sad that the lightning was that bad. Maybe you have to try to take such shot earlier in the evening with some rest light at the sky. Have you tried an external flash light? Or maybe using more powerful lights…

Actually all you need is a powerful flashlight with which to illuminate the desired aspect of the car. This will allow the camera to automatically measure and set the sharpness. Turn off the flashlight and then let the camera do the rest.

Using flash and long exposure works great in some situations but in this case, even with long exposure, there would have been a noticeable light glare and reflection in the license plate and headlights and I wanted to avoid that.

 

[klier]

This one:

 

[NarutoRamen]

This one:

That's the headlight pic I was talking about...it's just awesome!

 

[cawimmer430]

This one:

Here you go.

http://img163.imageshack.us/i/dsc0058kopie.jpg/

 

[Pekka]

OMG, my winter wh_re becomes a star!

I'll take it Pekka...if you can ship it to the US.

No big deal to pass the atlantic. The Bimmer has ballon tires and a freshly renewed inspection sticker...

 

[NarutoRamen]

No big deal to pass the atlantic. The Bimmer has ballon tires and a freshly renewed inspection sticker...

Well my good sir, send it my way then. It shall have even more photo-shoots!! Of course, I'll drive the crap out of it too.

 

[klier]

lol @ the resolution! That's big enough alright

Thanks Chris

 

[danclk]

Nice work! From the looks of it your pretty lucky there, we have these horrid amber street lights here that totally screw up most shots. Have you tried the Light weight North face gloves? there made from this light fleece material so you can still operate the camera and they dont leave many fibers behind so there is less chance of gettin fluff on the sensor. only downer is there about £35 but there well worth it if you do alot of night shots.