My father-in-law recently made this model of Dan Webb's Golden Submarine remake of a 1917 race car. This model is about the size of a Matchbox car and has some really intricate details. When he asked me to take some photos of it, I figured I'd approach it like a regular car shoot and see whether I could make it look almost life-size in the photos...

Technical Data: Canon EOS 7D, Canon EF 100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM, 1/250 sec at f/16. Image Stabilization on. ISO 100. Canon Speedlight 580EX II flash in auto mode. RAW processing and cropped in Adobe Camera Raw.

This may actually be a bit of a precursor as this weekend is the annual Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix, and as in the past couple years, I will be attending. This time around I'm actually "leading" a MeetUp group, so we'll see how that goes.

For now, here are a couple other angles of this cool little model:

Technical Data: Canon EOS 7D, Canon EF 100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM, 1/250 sec at f/16. Image Stabilization on. ISO 100. Canon Speedlight 580EX II flash in auto mode. RAW processing and cropped in Adobe Camera Raw.

I may have to reshoot a couple of these and try a couple other angles again sometime, but we'll see.

- Bill