This is my first time posting in the photography section, but I went out the other night with a friend who recently picked up a 450d who wanted to tag along to learn a few things about night photography.

Long exposures and lights are probably my favourite aspects of photography, even more so when it involves movement. This is the first time I've photographed cars as I've never had interest in them as a "subject", but in the photograph of my vRS and the power station I tried to capture the lights in an "Akira" style movement (Akira is a Japanese anime/manga for those of you who don't know).

This is probably the first two of many that I may submit here as I get more involved and interested in photographing cars, but we'll see. If anyone has any suggestions about "freezing" cars in photographs using a flash then I'd appreciate some tips. I have a flashgun which can be used independently from the camera but various techniques I tried I struggled to get decent results with. The car and power station picture was the best I managed to achieve on this occasion.

For anyone that is interested I shoot with a Canon 30D and on this occasion I used the Sigma 10-20mm.

Thanks for viewing!

Yeah nice pictures you've taken there.

Nooo...the first one reminds me of when we did surrealism in A level photography!! What a load of bull****!!!! The course that is, not your photos!

I also like long exposure night shots, they can come out really well

Impressive.. the second one the guy must have a steady grip

Impressive.. the second one the guy must have a steady grip

It was on a tripod wedged up against the back of the passenger seat with the legs of it wedged in all sorts of places in the back!

Awesome looking photos my friend!