For Alison

When I first started this blog I told myself that I would not put my image on it. Notice no photo in my profile? Come to think of it there isn't much in my profile. I will have to fix that soon. Anyway, my daughter Alison asked me to put an image of myself on the blog and I couldn't say no. I took a few shots of myself and didn't like any of them. Then I got an idea to try something that I've seen a couple of photographers do...Mount a camera to the car and take a few pictures while driving down the road. As a photographer I try a lot of different things. Things that I think of myself and things that I see other photographers do that I think would be cool to try and this was one of them. Alison's request gave me the chance to do it.


Here is the first shot I took. This was just a test shot to make sure I had everything connected properly. I would hate to get on the road and find out that I had the Pocketwizards set to the wrong channels or the camera settings were wrong, although during the course of this little shoot I did stop the car a few times to change settings....not that they were "wrong" but to get the effect I wanted. In this shot, it looks a lot darker than it actually was. I had to underexpose the ambient so that the inside of the car would stand out.



I took over 100 shots while driving home. Here are 2 shots that I took while I was on the road. They turned out OK I guess. Wish I could have hit a spot on the way with tons of lights. What do you think?

Wish I could say that this went off without a hitch but......Let's just say that the hood of my car still closes, the camera still works and the Pocketwizard that was attached to the camera still works but I will have to send it in to get the foot fixed on it. Next time (and there will be a next time) I will not leave the safety cables and bungee cords at home.

Alison, email me when you check the blog. I love you. Talk to you later.