The car on the left is the Bentley Continental Supersports, new for 2010. Weighing in at a touch over 5,000 lbs and producing a little over 600 bhp from its massive twin turbocharged W-12 power plant, this heap of sculpted artistry will scoot you along in all-wheel-drive bliss from your garage to anywhere you have in mind... before you have even made up your mind on where to go! A top speed clearing the 200 mph mark and a price tag closer to 300K places this car squarely in the category of "slightly out of human reach"! The general manager of the dealership and I both agreed that we needed to exploit this car differently than the other, mere mortal, Bentleys on the lot. A night shoot was in order.
I used Elinchrom 400 BX strobes on 15' tripods flanking the car with a Nikon SB800 strobe on the ground behind the car for the lighting. The camera was a Nikon D200 set to RAW, 100 ISO, F9, 1/60 shutter speed, and lens at 50mm. Not a lot of post processing was involved other than a bit of sharpening and color correction.
I love to shoot high end cars. There's something gratifying for me having spent most of my childhood dreaming about what it would be like to drive them. Now I get to make part of my career around them.
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