photos of a car turbo?

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anybody done one.
have a still life assignment at coolege. and have to do one of a high tech subject and a organic subject then have to do one with a large format camera.
so for the high tech i have choosen to borrow my brothers turbo. but lacking ideas on lighting and set up etc.
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this is the only picture of a turbo i could find which hasnt just been cut and pasted onto a white background.
just wondering if anyone has some good ideas etc

although i just thought of something, a panning still life?
i have use of a tripod with wheels, so i could place other car parts etc on a table with turbo in the middle. focus on the turbo and move across the floor with the tripod and keep the turbo in focus and the rest appear moving or blurred. think it could work?
 
Personally I like to see turbos and exhaust systems when they are glowing red hot :D

When I worked at a tuner they used to do endurance testing on the engines on the dyno, sometimes for 24 hours in the case of some major manufacturers. Why not check out your local tuners and see if any of them are able to accommodate your needs?

Just an idea :)
 
i have a turbo and several car parts (basically a whole honda civic in bits in my garage)
but it has to be done in the studio. and they get fussy if we light candles because of smoke alarms etc let alone running a turbo untill its red hot
 
I think unless you want the photo to look like its for a product catalogue then you should avoid the nice pretty lighting setups like with the one you've posted up.

What about getting a lighting setup in a garage on the work bench with some piston's behind it or some other car bits.

I've just fitted a nice new turbo onto my car and took a couple of snaps of it in the living room.
 
I don't want to sound like an arse or pee on your ideas but I wouldn't really class a turbocharger as high tech, they've been around for decades. I'm not saying that a lot of high tech R&D and manufacturing hasn't gone into your modern unit but turbos still don't look much different or work on different principles than the ones from the first half of the 20th century.

Sorry, I can be pedantic at times :lol: :exit:
 
Col_M said:
I don't want to sound like an arse or pee on your ideas but I wouldn't really class a turbocharger as high tech, they've been around for decades. I'm not saying that a lot of high tech R&D and manufacturing hasn't gone into your modern unit but turbos still don't look much different or work on different principles than the ones from the first half of the 20th century.

Sorry, I can be pedantic at times :lol: :exit:
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thats a debate weve been having in coolege. but instructor has basically said anything thats not organic like plants food and flowers etc is high tech. he did a demo with a spanner. these also have been around for a long time. surely before the turbo. (never tought me history on turbos and spanners).
 
lol no that's cool if your instructor is cool with it. I was just worried that it may not have been what they were expecting :)
 
What about unbolting the compressor casing then spin the blades so you can get a pic of them in motion?
 
can you get some small LED lights far enough into the housing that the light can be seen through the blades ? Oh and ditch the white background, take the pic on a workbench with other "stuff" around as someone else suggested ?
 
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