I met the owner through a Nikon School car photography workshop I conducted here in Dubai. He showed me some pictures of his car and immediately told him, let’s do a photo shoot with your car since I don’t have an Aston Martin DBS in my portfolio. What struck me is that the car is in red! Taking photos of red cars is always challenging because every camera interprets red differently so, color correction is always tricky. So we met […]
The past few months have been really tough to shoot. Temperature is rising every week and slowly reaching its peak recently. Temperatures of 47 – 50C is no joke especially when paired with crazy humidity. Weather is bearable at night though, so I geared up and decided to shoot my own car, 2016 Audi S3 with an Audi Exclusive Color called, aventurine orange mica. The paint being a mica contains some pearlescent properties meaning it changes the shade depending […]
If you are following me in my social media (if not just click my social media links on my website) you know that I conducted a Car Photography workshop for Nikon School in Bahrain. To my surprise, Ashrafs from Bahrain, in conjunction with Ford Middle East Bahrain provided a super rare car. 2014 Ford Mustang GT500 Shelby Super Snake. This is the highest factory spec’d mustang there is, 850 HP of pure american muscle. Gear info: Nikon D800E + 14-24mm
If any of you are at Bahrain on May 21, 2016 and at Muscat, Oman on May 22, please free to check out my Car Photography Workshop with Nikon School. This is going to a FREE workshop! Absolutely free of cost.. so please drop by and say hi 🙂 I will be sharing: composition tips essential equipment used in car photography camera settings different lighting techniques post processing workflow BAHRAIN: Register here: https://nikonschool-bh.com/workshop/Essentials-on-Car-Photography OMAN: Register here: https://nikonschool-om.com/workshop/Car-Photography-Workshop
If you are following my blog, you would know that I have been looking for a high megapixel camera that I could use together with my Fujifilm X-T1. In commercial work, there are times in which you are required to give large-resolution images to your client. That is my main reason for looking for a high-megapixel camera; fortunately, I was lucky enough that the kind folks from Nikon Middle East here in Dubai let me borrow one of their most […]
Feb 16, 2015, I sold my 2013 BMW X5 x35i and got this… A Jeep?!? Let me backtrack, before I purchased the X5, I was driving a 2009 Toyota FJ Cruiser for 4 years. I loved the FJ Cruiser, its a no-nonsense car that can go anywhere and I loved it; helped a lot with a lot of photography projects and shoots. Since it doesn’t have a lot of “luxury” features, I guess, you always crave the thing you don’t […]
This is my rental car in Iceland, looking great isn’t she?! Well, this is not actually the car I booked online but when I arrived, the rental company (Cars Iceland) told me they upgraded my car from a 2014 Toyota RAV4 Diesel (the car I booked) to a brand new 2015 Mercedes GLK 220 CDI 4-Matic Diesel. At first I was like, “Really? Why? Any additional Charge?”, they said no, same cost, same everything, it also comes with a free […]