Hmmm...not sure how I could rig that without some serious hardware.
However, a boom out the t-top looking down with a wide angle of the nose of
the car is easily doable (though again, only with no rain).
-Carl
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Au H. Nguyen [mailto:aunguyen@cisco.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2000 11:11 AM
> To: Carl Merritt; 'Scot Zediker'; Jim Ochi; ba-autox@autox.team.net;
> James Creasy
> Subject: RE: TLH Tears it up in Marina
>
>
> Last year, Car magazine in the UK did a cover shot of a BMW Z8
> where they mounted the camera on a boom attached to the front
> of the car. They used a very wide angle lens and shot at very low
> shutter speeds in some neon-drenched L.A. parking lot. The shot
> had the exaggerated perspective of a wide angle AND the most
> amazing speed streaks in the background, which are two things
> you don't usually see together. (The boom was retouched out
> with Photoshop.)
>
> If you can rig the mounting hardware, put the camera 5 feet above,
> and a couple of feet behind the car. A bird's eye view. OK
> a very fast
> and agile bird.
>
> Au
>
>
> At 09:48 AM 11/21/00 -0800, Carl Merritt wrote:
> >Any suggestions on interesting camera angles for next time?
> I'm thinking
> >about trying to do a bumper cam, but only if it doesn't rain...
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