Santa Fe car photography
If I could do nothing but car photography I would! So whenever I get the chance to photograph a car, especially for Bonhams, I am always grateful and excited for the chance. This time for Bonhams I went up to Santa Fe to photograph a Tesla Model S P100D. The seller had a spectacular mountain background view right on his property for photographing the car on. If you like this car, get your bid in now!
Read MoreI debuted some drone aerial car photography of an Aston Martin recently, and am following it up with these photos and video, of a Porsche 911 Targa GTS. The drone photo below looking straight down on the sports car with its targa top down is one of my favorite shots of 2019. I also used my Sony a7R IV from the ground to photograph the stunning interior of this custom ordered Porsche. It was very easy spending time photographing this car, as Porsche is one of my top three favorite car makers, and the 911 Targa GTS of all the many, many 911 variants, would be my first choice to own myself.
Read MoreI was back in Santa Fe to photograph more cars for my best car client, James. You may recall he let me drive his Rolls-Royce Wraith last time I was there doing photography for him. This time it was his 1982 Aston Martin V8 Vantage Volante to be photographed by my Sony a7R IV. Volante is the word Aston Martin uses for convertible. You may see some similarities in this generation V8 Vantage and the Ford Mustang. I noticed it immediately. In photographing this Aston Matin the green color showed itself or hid nearly entirely based on the angle I photographed it from. In the above photo it is hard to see, but in the aerial drone photo below it is clear.
Read MoreOn a recent car photography shoot in Santa Fe, I got to photograph four fantastic cars. This 1962 Austin-Healey 3000 MKII is the second car I am sharing from this day of car photography in Santa Fe (the first was a Rolls-Royce Wraith). I photographed this Austin-Healey in the style for selling at auction, as I had for this client before a few month ago with his Alfa Romeo Giulietta Spider Veloce. As it often is when photographing a beautiful classic car, it was an absolute pleasure photographing this Austin-Healey as there seemed to be endless angles to get stunning shots. The color of the car itself dazzled me each time I looked at it in the bright afternoon Santa Fe sunshine.
Read MoreThis past summer I went up to Santa Fe to photograph an Alfa Romeo Spider for James who was selling the vehicle through Bonhams Auction House. James contacted me about photographing even more of his cars, the first of which I am featuring is his personal favorite car, a stunning Rolls-Royce Wraith. I really found myself getting caught up in photographing this car. I am much more of a mid-engined supercar fan, but I could not help but start to fall under the allure of Rolls-Royce. In editing these photos I appreciated the boldness even more in the final images I was able to create.
Read MoreThe BMW Car Club New Mexico Chapter got invited to a very unique car show right at the top of a mountain at Santa Fe Ski Resort! We actually drove from the Sanat Fe BMW dealership on to the foot of the ski slope itself! Yes, that means my M3 along with a host of other sports cars and classic cars actually went off road. This could not have been a more stunning setting and a fantastic day overall. It felt like a whole different world up there. We capped the day with a hike up to the summit of the mountain, some 11,000+ feet of elevation! To top it all off, they had great veggie burgers grilled right before us with green chili and homemade cookies. In a side note, from the photo below you can see that Jessica and I are living in two totally different temperature zones!
Read MoreI got a sudden call from Bonhams Auction House to photograph a beautiful Alfa Romeo Spider Veloce up in Santa Fe this week. This was a very nice surprise! I contacted the owner and arranged a time to bring my camera and tripod to make auction style photographs of the car. Shooting a car for auction photographs means shooting it from every single angle to start, then if it is a convertible like this Alfa Romeo is, repeating that with the top down! My favorite part of the shoot is being freed from the tripod to walk around the car with my macro lens on looking for unique details of the car. I finish with using off camera flash to make the interior shots.
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