Here is another photo from our August automotive photo shoot. @jasonpohuski, Blair and I spent some time photographing a Ford 150 and this Mercedes G550 in downtown Pittsburgh.
G Wagon
Last weekend, @teamshutterrush (minus one of our members, who will remain unnamed…..Jake!!!!) was in Pittsburgh filming the third episode for our Shutter Rush series on Amazon Prime. If you haven’t watched the first two episodes, please do and while you’re at it, please rate it a “5”.
Anyway, we conducted an urban vehicle shoot with this G Wagon and a bright red Ford 150. I thought the red Ford was ugly, but I know some people will love it and I have to admit, it really popped in the photos. In addition, we completed some cityscape photography, urban exploration and a special photo shoot that is a top-secret surprise we’ll save for the film. Good stuff!!!! It was great to get out with the team and capture some photos since our last Shutter Rush location was photographed/filmed in early March right before the COVID lock downs.
This was my first professional vehicle photo shoot, which was good fun. I’m not super happy with my edits on the photo below, but it was nice learning how to setup the vehicle, lighting and other vehicle photo tips from @jasonpohuski and I look forward to trying this again….
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Packard Auto Plant Reflections
Here is another photo from my Detroit Urban Exploration trip. This photo was taken on the 4th floor of this huge plant. I couldn’t even tell you which building, because there are so many of them. One of the buildings is at least 10 continuous city blocks long with lots of wings. Anyway, I know we were on the 4th floor for this shot and I loved the reflections in the standing water. Click here to see another photo from this location: http://brook-ward.com/blog/2014/8/14/detroits-finest
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Detroit’s Finest
I’ve been absent from social media and my blog for a few days. Sorry about that!! Jay Cassidy and I took a quick 3-day trip to Detroit just to photograph abandoned buildings. There is no better place in the world right now for abandoned urban exploration photography. Detroit is THE place for this. We literally spent every waking moment (minus a few meals and travel time to the next site) in abandoned buildings and in graffiti row (Eastern Market). We dodged a few homeless people, security guards and junk.
Jay and I had a great time. We went to Detroit to “work” and I can honestly say, we did. I was seriously tired at the end of every day. But we got into a ton of great places and captured some awesome photos.
This photo was taken inside the abandoned Packard Automotive Plant, which was huge (3.5 million square feet on 40 acres). We spent about 5 hours in this place and probably saw less then 10% of the complex. It is over 10 blocks long with tons of multi-story buildings (most at least 7 stories tall). This is the former automobile-manufacturing factory where luxury Packard cars were made and later Studebakers’. It was opened in 1903 and closed in 1958, although a few other businesses used parts of it until the late 1990s. It’s a great urban exploration site.
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Porsche 911 Carrera
Yesterday, I took MJ’s car into the dealership to get a
quote for some repair work. I knew
from prior a visit, that right down the street is a Porsche dealership. I packed my camera gear knowing I would
have a long wait at the dealership.
What I didn’t know was whether or not the Porsche dealership would let
me in the door, let alone take pictures of their cars.
Well as it turned out, they didn’t seem to care I was even there. Matter of fact, none of the sale men even got out of their seats when I walked in and stood in the showroom. So either they are lazy (which I doubt) or they knew from a glance that I wasn’t a potential client.
Regardless, I snapped a ton of pictures moving in and around the showroom floor (I never touched a single car). Today’s picture is a close up of the left front headlight on a Porsche 911 Carrera.
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