EG What?!

Yes my thoughts exactly when I found out my friend was doing this conversion. This here is a very unique car and one of a kind in Australia, its been done before in the USA but hey we're in Australia so it doesn't matter what the yanks get up to. My friend has had this car for a while now and has kept it under wraps for quite a while by not attending meets and not telling anyone (not even me!) what was going on with his car. But when he had it all finished this is the end result. An EG civic front end on an EG2 CRX Del-Sol, and its either a love/hate relationship with this car. Some gather around this car in awe as they've never seen the conversion been done before whereas others just look at it in disgust. But I myself applaud my friend for being an individual and not caring what other thinks and going ahead with the conversion and not worry about what other people say or think about his car.

Now for this shot, I used flash photography for the first time by myself and boy did I found out how hard it was to get the settings and position of the flash right. I usually have my friend Andrew (ntranced) to help me out because it's his gear and he's done it a lot more times than I have but this time it was just me. My friend and I found a spot around Ingleburn's industrial area and then I got started, first off I went for a dead front on shot. I was having a bit of difficulty at first with getting both flashes to go off since only the right one was firing but not the other, after about 20min of playing around I figured that I had to turn the flash around so that it would be able to pick up the transmitter from the camera. I ended up with this as my final result for the first shot of the car, it's been cropped and as for processing wise I decided to clone out all the reflections. DO NOT ask me why, I just did, maybe a side effect of editing them in the early hours maybe, I don't know.



Next I moved the car so that I could get a side on shot, while the car was in the same position I moved around a bit and managed 2 shots;


the side on and


another angle

After a while I noticed that I didn't get any shots of the rear of the car so I tried and failed. I found that with flash photography that you need a background to shoot the car against otherwise it will just turn out dark like this following picture.



To end off the night I tried a few more angles and this one seemed to have worked well for me and I really liked this shot.



Now that I've gotten all that out of the way, I would like to thank Andrew 'ntranced' Nguyen for lending me his Nikon D80 and his SB600 Flash as well as Gabriel Ly who also lent me another SB600 and to my friend Tej for letting me be the first to take photos of his very unique car. Hopefully I get the chance to practice a bit more flash photography in the future and hopefully I'll get better at it.

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Until next time, I wish you all a safe and happy festive season.

-Steven Le