Photographing a car tuning event!
What is happening everyone! This is another episode of photography hustle; I am your host Luis Rivera and before we start talking photography just want to give a few names out there for helping me reach out to a bigger audience. I think they deserve a mention! Anthony Vega for making this video happen under the name Chico Blanco 302. Brandon CA hall and his wife for enjoying my videos and making me feel appreciated thank you!
Also, rumor has it that a shipment of Nikon z9’s is going to be shipping May 10. I don’t think that my order will be in anytime soon which is fine at this point. I just got the Nikon 200-500mm lens and wow that baby is heavy! So, I must stock up on some money to purchase this Nikon z9. I am almost thinking about going backwards and purchasing the Nikon D5 just because I know they will have them in stock. Only issue is how great is the auto focus on that camera? I keep dabbling back and forth on whether I should wait on the Z9 or just get a camera that I know I can purchase and just start using it. Also, I have a lot of F mount Lenses so do you think it’s worth going back? let me know an analysis if you think I should stop waiting or just keep holding on.
Let’s jump into the topic about cars. Before I go on about this topic, I dabbled in a photo or two about cars but never really did a photoshoot about cars or racecars. Where I took the whole day and photoshoot the events about racing throughout. I would have to say I fairly enjoyed myself in the event. I think the fact of going out super early and traveling, meeting new people was satisfying. I can see why photographers love to partake in the events. The event I took place in was in dyno tuning. It is not a race more of an enhancement on making the car better hence the name tuning. Also shout out to Rolo Tuning in Harrisburg PA for letting me shoot while the event was happening. I shot with my Nikon Z6 24-70 f2.8 lens and since I was not shooting in crazy action scenes, I was shooting in the low shutters with some low ISOs to keep the photos from looking grainy. Using low shutter speeds helps with the car movements not making it look like the car is parked not doing anything. I could not give you any car specs which all I know is that is a Honda Civic sorry fella. So, if you are looking for getting into the car photo scene it is a lot of fun with a bunch of action shots. I would recommend checking that out. To get into these things make sure you have permission just because you have a camera doesn’t mean you can barge your way in the race and start shooting photos of the event. That would be wrong. Almost as bad as bringing your camera or phone to capture weddings when there are paid photographers shooting the event.
In the end after a long day of enjoying the moment you come out with a sense of accomplishment for the driver and the photographer. The experience for me was entirely different from shooting a wedding. It was a nice change of pace that I do hope to go to one of the races soon and get to show you more along the way. Guys if you stuck it out this far make sure you like and subscribe to the channel and guys thanks for watching. This is Luis Rivera in photography hustle I am out!
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