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Archive 2012 · Ray and His Hand Crafted Car

Matt Leitholt
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Meet Ray

Ray hand crafted the car you faintly see behind him, it's an old woodie. He's been my neighbor for quite some time and it's always interesting to stop by and see the progress he's making on his hot rods. This is his full time "job" although he's retired. He always says "I'd rather be out here working in the shop than sitting in that recliner over there napping". He usually completes about one hot rod ever two years or so, all built by hand.

In the photo I wanted to show how he's a hard working guy and subtly show he builds cars. I had lit the car brighter but decided to turn it down to not distract.

Comments and critiques, I'd love to hear them!

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Jul 24, 2012 at 08:50 PM

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p.1 #2 · p.1 #2 · Ray and His Hand Crafted Car

Hi,

I like it as it is shown.

Good job.

Jul 24, 2012 at 08:53 PM

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p.1 #3 · p.1 #3 · Ray and His Hand Crafted Car

Very, very nice.

Jul 24, 2012 at 09:09 PM

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p.1 #4 · p.1 #4 · Ray and His Hand Crafted Car

Great shot - love the lighting!

Jul 24, 2012 at 09:10 PM

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p.1 #5 · p.1 #5 · Ray and His Hand Crafted Car

For the lighting, 28" Westcott Apollo box sitting on two tires to the bottom left, one Einstein with a 15 degree grid rear left about 13' up, and a 50" Apollo pointed away from the camera at the car on the right.

Jul 24, 2012 at 09:11 PM

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p.1 #6 · p.1 #6 · Ray and His Hand Crafted Car

Wonderful! I think your concept was right on, and you executed it perfectly. There's a special feel to this...

Jul 24, 2012 at 09:12 PM

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p.1 #7 · p.1 #7 · Ray and His Hand Crafted Car

Perfect!

Jul 24, 2012 at 09:20 PM

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p.1 #8 · p.1 #8 · Ray and His Hand Crafted Car

Love the feeling of this picture and the background story too. Glad you left the car subtle, it's about him not the car

Great shot.

Jul 25, 2012 at 02:05 AM

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p.1 #9 · p.1 #9 · Ray and His Hand Crafted Car

Love it! Agree with all the comments so far.

Jul 25, 2012 at 04:58 AM

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p.1 #10 · p.1 #10 · Ray and His Hand Crafted Car

You hit the lighting dead on.

Bob
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Jul 25, 2012 at 06:30 AM

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p.1 #11 · p.1 #11 · Ray and His Hand Crafted Car

Great control of the light and well thought out concept.

Jul 25, 2012 at 07:33 AM

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p.1 #12 · p.1 #12 · Ray and His Hand Crafted Car

Great concept, great lighting
thanks for sharing

Jul 25, 2012 at 07:51 AM

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p.1 #13 · p.1 #13 · Ray and His Hand Crafted Car

Stellar photo! Ray's family will no doubt treasure this picture for years to come. Thanks for sharing.
cheers, Steve

Edited on Jul 25, 2012 at 08:02 AM · View previous versions

Jul 25, 2012 at 07:56 AM

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p.1 #14 · p.1 #14 · Ray and His Hand Crafted Car

Great shot.

Jul 25, 2012 at 07:58 AM

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p.1 #15 · p.1 #15 · Ray and His Hand Crafted Car

great capture

Jul 25, 2012 at 08:00 AM

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p.1 #16 · p.1 #16 · Ray and His Hand Crafted Car

nothing to add other than incredible representation.

Jul 25, 2012 at 08:43 AM

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p.1 #17 · p.1 #17 · Ray and His Hand Crafted Car

Love the lighting, but I don't understand the concept. Did you have him clamp the metal and grind away on it for the photo? I do a lot of work around custom built cars and to grind metal and put that much metallic grit and dust into the air that close to a finished car doesn't make sense other than just for a photo op. A car builder wouldn't ever do that and that really jumped out at me - that's the first thing I saw. Again, I do enjoy the dramatic lighting though.

Jul 25, 2012 at 08:54 AM

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p.1 #18 · p.1 #18 · Ray and His Hand Crafted Car

Yeah we did do it for the photo, but that's also why we directed them away from the car

Jul 25, 2012 at 09:58 AM

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p.1 #19 · p.1 #19 · Ray and His Hand Crafted Car

Beautiful image. Thanks for sharing. Only thing I don't like about it is, the car's not mine.

Jul 25, 2012 at 10:25 AM

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p.1 #20 · p.1 #20 · Ray and His Hand Crafted Car

The car could be yours

Jul 25, 2012 at 11:00 AM

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