6 weeks free shoot

Background:
So Basically what had happened was Roundel Gruppe was having a meetup at Dr. Beemer before the Lemans races, hosted by T'erre and Brian McKinney. The plan was to meet up at Dr. Beemer, eat some breakfast and "caravan" or cruise to COTA. While I wasn't going to be able to make it to the races, I still decided to show up to see some familiar faces and meet new people.

Not too long later, Justin pulled in to Dr. Beemer with his Lamborghini Gallardo. After enjoying some donuts and chicken biscuits and getting some free "Turner Motorsport" swag, I had the crazy idea of snapping some pictures. I mean, why not? I had the DSLR in my car, I had about $600,000 worth of metal sitting in front of me, and I have a "Free Shoot" project coming up for school.

I started to snap some shots before everyone headed out. While I would have liked to have more time with the cars, I managed to get some good shots with the 15 minutes that I had.

Here's the results:


 Most ///M drivers are very proud of what they're driving, so it's necessary to add things like this MPower decal. The objective was to get the stripes in focus and have the rest just fade out to a blur.

 Pictured is an Alpine White E39 M5. The color of the rims match the paint perfectly. 

 Another E39 M5. The tone of blue on this car is fantastic.

 While not an ///M, this E46 330CI is still sure to turn heads.

 Now we've got the showstopper. This is Justin's 2004 Lamborghini Gallardo Coupe. He's not a big fan of automatic, so he made sure this beauty was a manual before his purchase, regards of SW. While the color combo sure is a great choice, the European-style plates make this car complete.

Another shot of Justin's Gallardo. The design is just timeless.

Also in manual, this E36 M3 is a car any BMW enthusiast wouldn't mind having. Props to the owner for keeping it so clean.

 This M3 is a beauty. From the aftermarket rims, to the carbon logo, to the license plate, everything about this M3 is perfect. Well, almost everything, except for the fact that it's not mine ;).

 Given the rarity of an E39, this shot was a must. The badge is in focus and fades out into a blur.

Here, I took advantage of both the ///M badge on the E39 M5's engine, and the E92 M3 in the background. I felt this photo was necessary, given the conditions.

This is a shot that probably wont ever happen again. Seeing an E39 M5 is crazy enough; seeing 3 is even crazier. But having 3 lined up perfectly for a picture,  now that's something to be proud of.

 Another one of my "fade out" or "blur" shots. I like taking these, they're quick, simple and clean, especially when we're talking E39s.

 Here's Tre's F10 M5. This thing looks mean, like its about to take your lunch money (don't laugh too hard).

Here, we have an E46 sedan, owned by yours truly. Her name is BaeMW. Although she may look harmless, she packs quite a powerful I6 engine, so be cautious!

This E46 M3? Yeah, its clean. Yeah its fast. But does it even lift? I only kid, this thing is good around tight corners, and in a straight line. Props to you Deep.

 Then there's always "that guy". T'erre brought his 5.0 along. Yeah its fast, but "it ain't German tho".
Disclaimer: I'm not trying to sound like Kanye.

Now lets reflect. Was this shoot successful? Heck yeah! Some key points that would have made this shoot better is if I had the cars more spaced out to reduce the busy background (this wasn't possible as the lot was fairly small.) Some things I did differently in this shoot were things like shooting in raw instead of jpeg, using the sunny 16 rule, and using the aperture to blur instead of relying solely on manual focus. Overall I like how the shots turned out, so did the members of Roundel Gruppe. Brian, the owner of Dr. Beemer so much, he decided to use one for the cover of the Dr. Beemer calendar (he will use more if he needs to, but he wants to give others' work to be featured in the magazine aswell).