November, what a month its been....

Well, i havnt been posting much latley due to the fact that i have been run down with various other things to do,incuding getting the flu (i dont usually get sick often, but when i do its bad) and have been spending a lot of my time at the track with a camera in front of my face.

Im finally all rigged up...

Got my material for the boom on Friday so cut it up and put it together over the weekend. I got enough piping to make a full 16' boom but after setting it up on my car i am very cautious due to the shere weight of the gear im putting on the end of it. The magic arm combined with my D300 and mammoth 14-24f2.8 its just too much to risk for me atm. im looking into a Sigma 10-20 soon to cut down on weight & so i can utilise ND filters as well.

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So we did a bit of testing late this afternoon at my mates house (not the best location but meh) with my partners VW Golf and my mates EVO9. Used a 8' section of the boom for a full car shot (just) of the Golf, and a 4' boom on the rear window of the Ev0 for a partial composition (still worried bout using it on the alloy panels)

We were all pretty amazed at the stability of the setup and the results that came out first time.

here are the results...

i did take another camera to grab some setup shots but in all the fuss and making sure the car passing through the street didnt hit the boom/car/me i forgot to snap them. Ahh well, plenty of time for setup shots next shoot.

Now all i have to do is organise some new cars and decent locations........