Recent content by Andy Cole

Hi all A friend of mine who's car I shot with my rig a couple of months ago has said that he's had circular marks on his glass and roof ever since. He says that when he polishes the car, they disappear, but they do come back. Obviously they can't be dents, as they are on the glass, and the...

Sammy, was that a public road for the A4? Donnie, not a bad first attempt. I can see from the lights in the distance that your rig is wobbling a lot. You need to calm it down as much as possible before opening the shutter. How long was your exposure? Often a single exposure doesn't give you...

I'm not a fan of having houses or other brick buildings as a background. I guess it ruins the illusion of speed, as it's better to imagine the car's speeding down some quiet lane somewhere. But the blue metal building really works, especially with the blue car! The first and last focus ones are...

The curve of the roof makes it hard to find a good spot on there for the suckers!

@mattemus, I think you were asking me about the car, it's a Nissan 350Z with a Veilside bodykit. @ReinisB, love those shots, especially the first 2!

You are hanging the camera under the pole, I assume, and not above it? I got a 6.5m flagpole from ebay for £35 :) Does the job, although it's quite wobbly. My photos came out sharp enough, though, see the last page. Andy

The car looks about right now, but what's with the background? Is there water on the lens or something? If I look around the streetlight there are lots of blobs which look like water drops. And in the road in the foreground, some is sharp and some is not, it looks odd. Not a bad amount of...

I'm lovin' the wall of fire on the Audi photo. Some of them are a bit wobbly. I don't personally believe the car has to be 100% motion free, but I think some of those are just too blurred. What setup have you got? I just started last week and my pole is pretty wobbly, but I just made sure to...

Hi all Long time lurker here, and I finally got a rig together after over a year of dawdling. Here are my first 2 photos. Please let me know what you think, and if they could be improved. Thanks. Rig consists of 2 x Manfrotto F1000, 3 x 035 super clamps, 1 x 143 magic arm and a 6.5m...

Of course. The length of pole has a lot to do with it as well. The longer the pole, the greater the pulling force on the furthest suction cup. I'm sure there's an equation to work it all out :) I've looked at aluminium flag poles for the pole part of my rig. There's a guy on ebay selling...

I'm glad to hear that because I just ordered them :) Now on to the pole & magic arm..... Andy

Hi all, first time poster here, after reading the entire thread over the last couple of days. I was wondering if anyone has had the Manfrotto F1000's fail on them during a shoot? The official load capacity on them is only 2KG, which doesn't sound like a lot. By comparison, the Powrgrip's are...