Car Shoot

Last Friday I drove to Warsaw to Bussard Perfomance Specialties to photograph three cars that they had restored/customized. Bussard Performance Specialties can restore a classic or antique car to showroom specs or in any way you can imagine. Pretty impressive. Brandon Bussard wanted some photos of these cars to submit to Popular Hot Rodding Magazine. Ideally these shots would have been done much later in the day to take advantage of softer light, but due to logistics of car availability we had to shoot between 1:00 and 5:00 pm.

I had the pleasure of shooting with a model, Amanda Hypes (http://www.amandahypes.com/), whom I’ve worked with before. She’s always a such a trooper, during this shoot in the mid day sun it probably around 90 and she never complained.

The first car is a 1964 GTO. It has been completely restored to brand new factory condition. It even has a dealer sticker in the window that looks vintage.

The next car is one that I featured in an earlier posting. It is a 2002 Ford focus that has a 400hp V-8, rear wheel drive, and 5 speed transmission. It also has a custom interior and paint.

Lastly this is old Dodge Cornet that has an altered wheel base. Basically the entire body of the car has been moved back around 18 inches. The point being to move more weight over the rear wheels for better traction.

Anyway, it was fun shoot and under the conditions we got some good photos.