Would love to know the story. You couldn't drive a Model T for 6 days on one tank of gas, could you?

Fabian Oefner explodes views of classic sports cars. Here's a 1961 iconic sleek, black Jaguar E-type.

'Disintegrating’ and ‘hatch’ are carefully and meticulously handcrafted images of classic sports cars, exploded, dissembled and dismantled in space. with the aid of fine needles and pieces of string, the ‘disintegrating’ series comes to life through thousands of individual photographs. the intricate scale models of a mercedes-benz 300 slr uhlenhaut coupé with gullwing doors, a sleek, black jaguar e-type, and a sensual ferrari 330 p4 that oefner creates, replicate every inner detail hidden within the hood. carefully strung and placed floating in space, singular photos are taken of each part, then blended together in post-production to create one unified image. ‘what looks like a car falling apart is in fact a moment in time that has been created artificially by blending hundreds of individual images together. there is a unique pleasure about artificially building a moment…freezing a moment in time is stupefying’, oefner explains.

Old is new again and I'm starting to see more vintage cameras at car events.

A rig is a tool often used in automotive photography that attaches to the car or vehicle, enabling a photographic motion shot to be taken by the camera on the end of the rig. The results of using a rig are fantastic, allowing the camera to move at the exact same pace as the car gives a high speed motion blurring to the background and wheels whilst keeping the bodywork in crisp focus.



Photo by Matt Watkinson

Rigs are available in a variety of shapes and sizes, from professionally built units that bolt directly to the chassis to DIY constructions using large vacuum cups, aluminium poles and specialist camera mounts (as per the example above by Matt Watkinson, from his excellent blog post; How to remove a rig in Photoshop.

The shots taken on rigs are usually at slow driving pace with a long shutter speed, allowing for the blurring action of the background and moving parts. The rig is then edited out in Photoshop by overlaying a photograph of the car without the rig attached, erasing out the unwanted poles and mountings.

Here are 37 awesome examples of rig based car photography from a range of talented photographers: