You need good backup

Sometimes, believe it or not, being a photographer just isn't enough! Apart from being a husband, father, taxi service, chef, dog walker, big scary dragon and many other things I also need to have some post production skills.

In other words; Photoshop.

I shot this car, just outside Bristol, ( I wrote about it here iPhone pic of the day ) for a direct client in an old quarry on a freezing cold, windy morning. No budget for a studio or any other nice car photography accoutrements. Just me, a mobile backdrop and 2 lovely girls from Stuff who were handling, well, other stuff for this client. They ended up keeping everything standing as my sandbags, bricks, breezeblocks and bags couldn't withstand the wind. - Good backup, thanks Ali and Katie.

Additionally, as we weren't in the cossetted warmth of a studio the car needed some post production work before it was ready to be cut out and the large 2 metre mobile produced.

I did some tweaking of the photo back at HQ but the real work was done by Photoshop supremo Ewen Collis at Stuff who managed to hide any shortcomings - err, the shortcomings were due to the location of course, rather than my photography! You need good backup, thanks Ewen.
If you are having trouble seeing the image please click here - Fiat 500