That first pic is class! Others aren't bad either

Looking brilliant, as ever

Particularly like the last one, very moody

Steve

How the hell do you do that ??? - car in perfect focus and the background blurred - especialy with the car moving

excellent pictures m8. did u forget 2 turn ur fogs on?

Astonishing photos would love to have some like that of mine.

WOW man.. those r the best pics i've ever seen.. how did u do tht??????? thats amazing

Big pole with camera on the end of the pole.

Quite possibly the best photos I've have seen on this forum, absolutely brilliant

Looking good Jamie

Chris

Thought i have seen that car before.

PVW staff members car

Thought you had the Cupra wheels on last issue.

Hi Walkie, hi Chris.

Chris - today the car failed it's MOT. Mechanically perfect , but missing a centre rear seat belt! It's not even detachable and it isn't there! Just a metal loop where it's supposed to be sewn onto. I got another out of a Polo so should get it passed tomorrow. Properly strange though. Other than that, still loving the car. More so when it isn't filthy.

Here are some more I shot this evening. A bit rough and ready, but I just did them to demonstrate the angles you can get the rig to. Quite high! Unfortunately it was quite windy and at the end of the pole was a £2k glass and metal disaster waiting to happen so I had to rush them.

Thought i have seen that car before.

PVW staff members car

Thought you had the Cupra wheels on last issue.

Yeah. It's sometimes in the Our Cars section of PVW. The Cupra wheels were from Edition 38 and I didn't buy them because they were

Looking great as ever!

Are you or any of your PVW buddies going to the Ultimate Dubs show in a couple of weeks?

Hi Josh,

No idea! Have had my head in the Aluminium Pole supplier's catalgue for too long to have taken note of what's going on. Is your car on show or something?

Jamie

So how do you remove the pole from the picture then?

Also, you could have washed the car, at least.

Yeah Jamie, my car's going to be indoors at the show and it will have been polished and waxed to within an inch of it's life!

Cool. I will come if I am around. Not to be sycophantic, but yours is one of my favourite cars out there at the moment. Proper tidy.

Goochie - the pole is cloned-out in Photoshop. Just a bit of work patching other parts of the picture over where it was originally.

Here's another I shot tonight. In the background is the future 2012 Olympic site, and the glow in the distance is central London. You're right, I should have washed it. But it's a pain where I live and it'll just get skanky again because they're currently resurfacing the road outside my flat. I never really meant to photograph this car. If I had, I would have bought a Citroen DS23... Mmmm...

Anyway:

I am sorry but I am actually stunned by those photo's

So where is the pole fixed to the car? I assume it is no ordinary camera either.

That stays my secret, sorry. I spent over 6 months thinking this through, and there's a war raging in another forum because I won't reveal how it's done.

But the camera is just an ordinary digital SLR. A Nikon D200, with a 12-24 lens, or in the shot above, a 10.5mm fisheye (borrowed off a friend). You could do this with any little camera, the lighter the better, as long as you have some way of triggering it. Like a self timer or one of those infra-red remotes or something. I'm using a wireless flash trigger with a home-made cable so it fits in the shutter release socket of the camera. It's the thing I'm chewing in the last shot above, because the aerial is tasty.

Having gone away I'd come back to ask you for a photo of the setup....... you've already answered that question though.

Is it a known technique in photographing circles or something you've made up ?

Chris - today the car failed it's MOT. Mechanically perfect , but missing a centre rear seat belt! It's not even detachable and it isn't there! Just a metal loop where it's supposed to be sewn onto. I got another out of a Polo so should get it passed tomorrow. Properly strange though. Other than that, still loving the car. More so when it isn't filthy.

How weird - I'd always wondered where it was, but as it had passed the previous two MOT's I'd thought nothing more of it! My understanding was that it was only tested if it was fitted :confused: Glad everything else passed - it failed last time because one of the rear indicator bulbs was the "wrong shade of orange" and the driver's seat was dangerously insecurely fixed!

Chris

Hi Jamie

Neat work, I really like the effect. I assume you have a rig attached to the car and a wide lens, then photoshop the pole out.

Chris

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Waiting for my 12-24 to arrive at the moment. Looking forward to the perspectives I will be able to get with it.

Chris