R/C Photography
Posted on Thursday, March 4th, 2010 at 9:39 pm by Jeff HoyI took these photos of a couple of my R/C cars earlier today for a project I’m working on. I thought they turned out so cool that I just had to share them. The first two are my mid-90′s era Kyosho Pureten GP Nostalgia series chassis topped with an HPI Pontiac Firebird Trans Am body in racing trim. The third photo is my early 90′s era Team Losi JRx-Pro restoration project that’s still kind of a work in progress, even though I’ve run it a couple times as you can see from the dirt that the bottom of the A-arms are coated with. I should have cleaned it before taking these pictures.
These were shot in a darkened room with my camera mounted on a tripod. I was using my zoom telephoto 100-400 f/4-5.6 L lens at 300mm f/16. I set my exposure to 6 seconds and then took my Speedlite and manually popped it three or four times for each photo from different positions and angles. The black surface and background was made up of my glass entertainment center top and a pillowcase stretched behind the cars. I did some minor alterations in photoshop, mostly turning the black levels down to get a good match between the backdrop and the table surface. I also upped the saturation a little to make the blues pop a bit more. Looking at them now I should probably go back and clean up some of that dust that is showing on the table.
