Pro Photo Shoot

[AMG5PT4]

Jono invited me to a professional booth photo shoot a few days ago. Jono was having a shoot of his 1 of 1 Hammer Wagon and was gracious to let me have my 84 500SEL AMG shot at the end of the day. The booth and ultra high end cameras and lighting were rented for the day. Jono had a client/photographer and another professional photographer set up the equipment and do the shoot.

It was a very interesting experience. As with many things, we as consumers or lay people don't appreciate the time and effort it takes to set up a booth for high end photography - we just see the end result pics.

The below pics were taken with cell phones - not the "real" Phase One camera shots taken with coordinated lighting. The booth lighting is very flattering to cars - especially nice cars like ours that day. I would like to have this type of lighting in my garage some day. As well as space for my bed so I can see my cars in this lighting as much as possible. Anyway, enjoy the pics. (all images Copyright 2020 Allan Lydon and Elaine Carter)

Pic #2 was taken just after I placed the car in the correct spot on the special booth floor/curved wall area. This was before the car was jacked and the wheels turned and AMG center caps leveled and final car dusting and cleaning the floor of all tire track marks.

The real pics are massive in size due to the insane megapixels in resolution - 500MB or so/picture. Requires special software to view/edit the pics.

Thanks to Jono and Steven. A most excellent day!

 

[sheward]

Beautiful pictures and car! Johnathan, post pictures up please if possible.

drew

 

[liviu165]

Al, thank you sharing this with us. Very nice pictures. My favorite is the second. As asked above, I was wondering if when the final pictures are ready, can't the number of pixels be reduced on some so you can post here (with copyright, of course)?

 

[liviu165]

Just curious (I meant to ask you long time ago, but forgot): Is that '84 licence plate French?

 

[gsxr]

Once the final pics are ready it should be easy for the photographers to export a compressed (JPEG) copy in lower resolution and smaller file size. For web display there's not much point going beyond around 2000x3000 or ~1MB file size...

 

[AMG5PT4]

Don’t know much about the real pic process. I know they have to be edited and scrubbed. I am sure I could get jpeg images at lower resolution. Would have to get permission to post them.

Yes, French temporary tourist plate from 84. This plate # is written into the original warranty booklet.

 

[liviu165]

Yes, French temporary tourist plate from 84. This plate # is written into the original warranty booklet.

Thanks. I was a child in Europe when I first saw those and they impressed me (in '84 I was in college), I liked the color, nothing like other plates had. Is nice to see a car with a history where everything matches and makes sense.