bugging the drift slag!

Well, RIP golf, we'll miss you, but you've gone to a better home... Welcome, Skippy the Bush Bug!! what a classic, '69 WV beetle imported from Australia, shes awesome!! Needless to say getting her in such good condition was an absolute mission! we've been looking for a car for about a month, Tom had his heart set on a Beetle, so ebaying it up, we went to look at a couple, There was a black one in Manchester that, by the photos, looked in good condition, the description was good also, so we went to have a look one evening... They guy was abit of a knob really, said the car was running not long ago and the car had been moved... so what was with the 2 inch thick layer of moss underneath and gaping big hole in the floor on the passenger side... yeah, so that didn't happen, after a while we were starting to loose hope. Then Skippy came along on ebay, the guy was looking for about a grand for her, which was our budget.. lovely... so, we phoned him up and asked, if we drove from Wrexham to London to look at the car would he accept £1000 there and then? he said yes. So me, Tom and Paul drove to Swindon,(to drop off the car we were borrowing) where Toms dad drove us to London, we got there, brand new 1300 engine, really good nick, hardly any rust, (just the right amount though to make the car look nice and rustic.. old school!!) the bottom was fine, and the car ran... but this geezer decided he wasn't going to take the £1000 for it and wait for ebay to finish... needless to say we weren't happy, so we drove back to Swindon to think about what to do... Then, said geezer decided to let us have it for £1600, so off we go again, arrive in London at 11pm and pick the car up, only to drive it back to Wrexham at a maximum of 50mph all the way!! No problems with her at all, and touch wood, she hasn't let us down yet!! What an awesome car! We got back at 5am.

And introducing Pauls car, Drifto Slago... she lives up to her name, that car goes sideways... really sideways... alot!! We done a photo shoot at night just for the fun of it, with some lighting techniques, inspired by the guys... this is what we came up with! The only problems was finding somewhere with no light whatsoever in order to make more of an impact, and a little help from Photoshop...!

For this shoot I used standard Tripod, Standard lens and Canon digital SLR 1000D, 2 torches and 2 people running around like fools!

These 1st photos were done in the cash and carry car park, very limited lighting and out the way of roads, we just finished doing these, then lights came on and we had to move to another location.

Here are the ones we did at the side of the road. It was completely dark, yet sometimes a little bit of light did manage to get through, we also had the problem of passing cars, but these were few and far between leaving us able to work efficiently. The camera was left on long exposure for a maximum of 5 seconds, and a minimum of 1.5 seconds, varying between the 2 for each image.

The above was a failed attempt where Tom got too close to the car in the 1st 2 seconds of the open shutter!

These are the better photos I took with a portrait view, and decided to concentrate more on blacking out the backgrounds via Photoshop!

Final Drifto Slago;

and final Skippy;

With the torches we were trying very hard to get the line of the vehicles as they're very distinctive... we ended up with some very interesting shapes, I'm very happy with the end results!!