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Check this out. I’ll admit to some somewhat heavy-handed editing here when it came to getting the sky somewhat properly exposed, but I still really like the shot. For those of you who don’t recognize this technique, the motion blur is achieved with a slow shot (about 1/80 of a second) and by following the car as I actually take the shot. That’s how you get your subject in focus while everything else is blurred. It takes a bit of practice and some fiddling with settings, but you get some cool shots.

Of course, you can still get some cool shots of cars standing still. That’s especially true with these beauties, as they indeed look fast even when they aren’t moving. For the purposes of this shoot, I only brought my wide angle lens. That is why you are seeing some extra bend in the lines of the cars.

This is what I mean by wide angle. You can get quite a lot in a shot, and focus on interesting details while still getting a lot of the car in there. Here, I focused on the Ferrari badge.

It was a lot of fun working on getting motion blur shots. You aren’t guaranteed a good shot each time, so you’ve really got to work at it. I was pretty pleased at getting both of these cars pretty in focus while whipping my head around as they went by me.

Though I was focusing on my motion blur technique, I find it’s always good to try and go for some different looking shots so you don’t end up with a bunch of the same. Here, a little tilt of the camera gives another dimension, and I decided in post-processing to go with a black and white background to accentuate the car. Both of those things are sometimes considered cliche, but I like the result here.