Toyota GT86

Paddy@CIRL

I recently had the pleasure of taking ownership of Toyota's new sports car for a week last month. The brief was pretty simple - shoot the car and provide a brief feedback of my experiences with car. I shot all of the details with a 580EX II & softbox, but the paint on the car was too swirly to use bare off-camera flash for the exterior shots. Instead, I shot brackets but mostly ended up using single exposures for the post work. I toyed with the idea of removing the number plates completely, but decided against it as I wanted the car to be identifiable as Toyota Ireland's car.


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Full Set

thebaz

the last 3 look fantastic Paddy - not mad on the 3rd one , in comparison to rest

Cosmo K

They are great!

.Longshanks.

Faultless set if you ask me. They could all go straight into a brochure or magazine.

ianofitz

Those pics are class, makes the car look so good. Well done

Pivot_Al

Great shots- 4, 5 & 6 are really good stand alone photos

Balfey1972

Great range of shots Paddy. Super Job.

dirtyghettokid

brilliant pictures! you've captured the car well. hope it was a bit of craic to drive?

Tallon

Can't fault them! Beautiful!

Paddy@CIRL

Thanks guys, it wasn't an easy set to shoot or process but I definitely learned a lot of things that I would probably do different next time.

ronanc15

Brilliant set Paddy, some more gems in the full set.

Photos do that colour a lot of justice

Lagnagoushee

Paddy,
Reckon this one was worthy of inclusion:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/31028264@N00/8147908509
Great work!

kelly1

Very nice indeed. 4th is my fave.

Lagnagoushee

Lagnagoushee wrote: »

Paddy,
Reckon this one was worthy of inclusion:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/31028264@N00/8147908509
Great work!

Best one posted here, in my opinion.


Number 4 above would look better if the car was facing the camera in my opinion. In 4 and 6 it's facing away. I'd like to see the front in those.


EDIT: Sorry, should probably also add I think they're excellent photos. Would be quite curious about how you did number 5. Can in front of that car, or a rig attached?

Paddy@CIRL

Deleted User wrote: »

Best one posted here, in my opinion.


Number 4 above would look better if the car was facing the camera in my opinion. In 4 and 6 it's facing away. I'd like to see the front in those.


EDIT: Sorry, should probably also add I think they're excellent photos. Would be quite curious about how you did number 5. Can in front of that car, or a rig attached?

Thanks Shane,

With regards to 4 -



I think there's a more frontal shot of number 6, but I haven't edited it just yet. Number 5 is a straight-forward enough over-the-top rig shot

Gumbo

Stunning Paddy, as said over on the BMW Forum, Brochure quality shots :cool:

ronanc15

Out of curiousity Paddy what would you do differently if you were doing this one again?

Gumbo

ronanc15 wrote: »

Out of curiousity Paddy what would you do differently if you were doing this one again?

Good Question

sepd123

a little off topic but is that mahon falls and bunmahon ?

dazftw

The beach is called Kilmurrin, its before Bunmahon.

Paddy@CIRL

Paddy@CIRL wrote: »

Thanks Shane,

With regards to 4 -



I think there's a more frontal shot of number 6, but I haven't edited it just yet. Number 5 is a straight-forward enough over-the-top rig shot

Yeah, I admit, I really like that version a lot more than the facing away one (though I do realise that everyone will have a different opinion, and some people may find the rear of the car looks better than the front, etc. but I, personally, prefer the above over the one you posted initially (where it's looking away)).

I quite like the 'face' on that car, though. It's quite mean/menacing looking (especially combined with the colour of the car and the processing).

To someone not very familiar with car photography, it looks really well done, I must say.

steoc

Excellent set Paddy.

Paddy@CIRL

ronanc15 wrote: »

Out of curiousity Paddy what would you do differently if you were doing this one again?

I guess I would have slowed down a little and taken a little bit more time to consider the placement of the car relative to the backdrop and position of the sun. I did take that time later in the day - spent the best part of half an hour inching the car around at Mahon Falls - but felt it could have payed off better earlier in the day. There was a lot of shots that I 'seen' when importing the images off the CF card afterwards, but never noticed when shooting.

Essentially, I need more patience.

CianRyan

Great shots, Paddy.
Loved the SpeedHunters write up too.

ronanc15

Paddy@CIRL wrote: »

I guess I would have slowed down a little and taken a little bit more time to consider the placement of the car relative to the backdrop and position of the sun. I did take that time later in the day - spent the best part of half an hour inching the car around at Mahon Falls - but felt it could have payed off better earlier in the day. There was a lot of shots that I 'seen' when importing the images off the CF card afterwards, but never noticed when shooting.

Essentially, I need more patience.

Cool I get you, well if that's your version of a rush job you're on the pigs back

Are the pics going to be used by Toyota Ireland??

Paddy@CIRL

ronanc15 wrote: »

Cool I get you, well if that's your version of a rush job you're on the pigs back

Are the pics going to be used by Toyota Ireland??

Perhaps

frostie500

Great stuff as usual Paddy, always look forward to seeing what you have taken!

I really like this shot as well:



It's not really one that would be great for Toyota as the car isnt the main focal point of the shot but I really like the composition of where its placed as well as the contrast in the colour of the car and the rocks/jetty.

Also I love the shots of the car in motion. Great stuff as always!

ronanc15

frostie500 wrote: »

Great stuff as usual Paddy, always look forward to seeing what you have taken!

I really like this shot as well:



It's not really one that would be great for Toyota as the car isnt the main focal point of the shot but I really like the composition of where its placed as well as the contrast in the colour of the car and the rocks/jetty.

Also I love the shots of the car in motion. Great stuff as always!

Love the contrast in that too.

I'm always afraid to leave in as much stuff in the foreground as there is in this, rocks, walls, ropes etc but it just goes to show the rules are there to be broken. They don't distract from it at all.

Paddy@CIRL

Yeah, I've never really been a fan of photos of a car where it pretty much touches all four corners of the frame. I much rather have something more visually interesting and perhaps something that can tell a story if possible.