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That’s one hell of a Porsche, ‘cuda.

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Just surrender and join us orionid. We can have a contest within a contest, dawg…

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I have a square bumper on my jeep and a remote control. Now I’ve got a neat idea to try and some potentially tragic results if I screw it up.

I’d say go for it =)

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Skip the clamps. Use angle-iron and body bolts. There was an article in Car Craft magazine about three or four years back showing all the different ways to set it up on almost any car.

Now that sounds interesting, will check it out today =)

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Initially I was going for the front bumper (fascia), but the current ones can’t hardly sustain the license plate, let’s not talk about several pounds of photo gear. I looked underneath but I found nothing I could attach my rig to. That’s the reason it needs improving, bigger clamps and some means of articulation.

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Here’s a b-side, been fooling around with my home-made rig… Mounted on the rear bumper it’s a bit difficult to get a good position for the camera, needs some improvement:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/emiliogt/7339667782/in/photostream

Still, I might use one of these shots.

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My wife shots weddings, I go with her as a second photographer. Yes, the physical effort hurts you the first time, by the third one you won’t notice it.

Also, 200GB? 5000 shots? Jesus, what were you shooting at? I don’t know the details of your deal, but we and the wedding photographers we know, deliver about 500 pictures to the customers. That usually includes two days of shooting: the e-session and the wedding day. The e-session is mostly for fun, we take a ride with the couple, go to places they like, shoot some frames, break the ice. Wedding day usually starts in the morning, we cover the getting-ready for the bride and the groom, close relatives, and sometimes there are small parties and the like. Then comes the church, the formals, the reception.

We usually take about 1800 pictures, average, 2000 at most. From that, we trim down to about 800-1000, discarding shots that are poor-focused, redundant, awkward moments, mishaps such as closed eyes and the like. The rest we process most of them, then we make the final selection of about 500 pics, which is what my wife charges for.

With time, you’ll get better at directing people, and get that posed shots in one take, two at most. I can’t imagine going over 5000 pictures from a single event. The most I’ve shot myself have been 1700, for a three-day motorsport event, and the postproc was painful.

Congratulations on your new enterprise, don’t expect to make a dime on your first two or three events, but expect to have a lot of fun. And keep in mind that after all is said and done, the only things that will survive that big day are the memories, and the pictures you took (the two are one and the same, he), ’cause we all know marriage leads to divorce =)

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I once became extremely close to trade my D300 for a Hasselblad 503cw, LN condition, complete with back and a couple of lenses. I didn’t do it because I though I would end up divorced from my wife and married to the Hassy. Turns out my wife almost divorced for keeping the D300 instead.

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Do scale-models count?

Sure thing. Except you can’t put gorillas or dinosaurs on them.

/just kidding. you can. I just wanted to get Ranger Joe’s attention.

There goes my objects-are-closer-than-they-appear Jeep Wrangler shot… =)

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Do scale-models count?

Sure thing. Except you can’t put gorillas or dinosaurs on them.

/just kidding. you can. I just wanted to get Ranger Joe’s attention.

There goes my objects-are-closer-than-they-appear Jeep Wrangler shot… =)

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* shakes tiny fist at ennuipoet *

I was planning on doing some long exposures of departing cars too… hehe. Actually, it was an 18 wheeler, but the whole streaks thing didn’t worked out as I expected it (think Akira-style light streaks), the trailer doors shine too much, so I’m half past that idea.

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Do scale-models count?

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I don’t know, rust is kinda hard too look good on B&W… just my opinion.

Btw, great entries this week, I got in late, as usual.

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So, is it going to be a collage or a mosaic?

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It wasn’t that a difficult contest, I’m looking forward to some really funny stuff. I have only one entry but had a good time making it =)

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