So last week I was hired to photograph a Scion FRS that was completely and insanely modified by Megan Racing’s Race Division. The day started with some closeup detail images from underneath the car of the various modifications they performed for a presentation that the company would be doing to show off what they did with this thing. In effect, they turned an already sweet looking ride into a growling piece of art that I’d be afraid to let out of it’s cage.
But once we finished the close-ups, it was time to get the entire sucker, so they brought it down off the lift and unleashed it into the parking lot. It was like letting a lion out of it’s cage. While they wouldn’t let me take the POV shots I jokingly (not really) suggested, they did let me position it around the buildings and lot adjacent to the shop, so I got to work. The time of day was still about an hour away from optimal, but I had to work with what we had, so just went for it, gambling on the game of numbers, if I shot enough, I was bound to come away with a few keepers. This was another instance in which my Eye-Fi card came in handy…that sucker has yet to leave slot two!
Anyhow, I definitely came away with what I thought were some solid keepers, but what I didn’t expect was that the shot I ended up liking the best was one that, at the time, was a mistake – a painfully obviously underexposed image as I was trying to compensate for a very bright sky, but I went too far on the right side of the dial.
Yet, for some reason, I didn’t delete it.
