Hello I am Joshua Keefer, a Photographer. Please Read!!

Welcome to Fchat.
Come out to SR on Saturdays.
Plenty of cars to shoot waiting for ya.

Cheers,

 

Joshua - There are many get-togethers you can attend for shoots. You will find most all of the members pretty cool. Part of your Major should focus on your English, as your write-up needs to be cleaned up a bit. Best of luck with your career! Please post a few pic's when you take them. Lets see the 'feel' you are able to capture for these fine cars.

 

Come on out to the Billetproof Hot Rod, Kustom and Motorcycle Show at the Antioch Fairgrounds on Sat. Sept. 15 9am-5pm. Admission $8.

Over 900 40's-50's-60's Traditionally styled Hot Rods, Sleds, Kustoms, Choppers and Bobbers. There will be a Vintage Travel Trailer display, Pinstriping Panel Jam, Model Car Show.

 

Joshua:
Welcome to our little pleasures. Since I'd be a poor subject for photo shots of the Ferrari marque, I'd like to introduce you to a "slightly" different venue.
There is a growing group of car "builders" in the general bay area and if you'd like to see a number of Cobra replica's, you owe it to yourself to go to Livermore at 8:00AM at the Rock House Sports Bar. EVERY Saturday, anyone that has a Cobra, Daytona Coupe, GT40, Ford GT, or even a plain GT350 meet for breakfast there ( assuming no other events such as the Goodguys show is happening, you should get at least 2 dozen cars there.)

Sometimes a Ferrari, Viper, a Hot Rod do show up. It's a bit far for some in SF, but since you're in Union City, it's about a 30 minute ride for you.

This coming weekend we are doing a ride from Alices on top of 84/35, and heading south into Scotts Valley for lunch and then a tour of a race car restoration facility up in Scott's Valley if you're interested; we will be meeting there at about 8:30AM Saturday.

As an alternate, you MUST got to Santana Row (Corner of Stevens Creek Blvd. and Winchester, just off Hwy 880/17 in San Jose,) behind the movie theater parking lot. Every Satruday moring around 10:00AM, you will see a number of exotics that should give you a glipse of the more modern machinery and some vintage as well, and a smattering of hot rods on occasion. If Turbo 6's, Turbo 4's, V10 and V12's are your thing, this ought to "get your motor running".

*EDIT* There is also a "hot rod" gathering in Santa Clara every Wednesday evening starting around 5:00PM at the Mervyn's Plaza on El Camino Real. There you'll see classic hot rods as well as 60's iron. Nearly all are good enough to be Goodguy's contestents; some are "in progress". What I think you'll find as the trend of the older generation having the money to revisit the cars of their youth. Once in awhile you'll see a bunch of GTO guy's hang out, as well as Vette guy's, Mustang guy's, Impala SS crew, and pretty much anything that sported a V8 from 64 - 72.

There is suppose to be a few other "dinner" time get togethers at various places such as in the Milpitas McCarthy Ranch or down at Mel's(?) in South San Jose. I don't know the exact locations to be honest, nor the exact time but I do hear about them and I'm usually invited but dinner time for me is with the family so I don't get out much for those.

PM me if you want more info on the Cobra venue.

 

Ahh...a new shooter...great! Welcome to Ferrari Chat: Northern California.

I work with other people on this forum on Milk Runs (drives) in the city and county of San Francisco -- we start off with a Milk Run through the city, then we meet up at a restaurant for dinner and great conversations. You are more than welcome to join in on this type of Milk Run.

Other members coordinate Milk Runs outside of SF; however, these Milk Runs are by invitation only and aren't publicly posted -- you will need to be checked out by the coordinators of these Milk Runs because they are extremely cautious as to the people and drivers that join their herd of bulls & horses.

I recommend you send a Private Message to Prancing Horse introducing yourself. Who knows...one day, you might get an invitation to join the pack for a Milk Run, and I promise that you will really dig it.

Check 6 and good luck with school.

/s/ Alfonso Faustino

 

You may not even need to do a private shoot, because most of the time the Santana Row meet provides some great photo opertunities and I am usually extremely happy with the results I get. I have yet to go on one of the drives after SR because they happen as a sort of last minute thing, but am sure these would also provide some great opertunities. You should check out some of our great resident photographers:

Kirby: http://www.itzkirbphotography.com/

Martin: www.DreamsCaptured.com plus some extras on the bottom of this thread (dont bother with the amateur photos at the top!): http://ferrarichat.com/forum/showthread.php?t=165391

Alex: http://srexotics.itsalex.com/main.php

P.S. A trip to SVAG may be worthwhile, as many times they have a decent car or two outside!

 

whats up bro. The public meets are great, but you most likely won't be able to get clean or desirable backgrounds, not to mention good light. My advice is to find a great location to shoot a car, figure out the timing for the light,(dusk, fog, night, etc.) then set up something with a single car. The driver should be willing to maneuver the car to get the best light/angle, and will be grateful to have his car shot for free. Just give him free prints, and everyone's happy. I shoot mainly fashion, but shooting my own cars has become a favorite past time.

 

Joshua: I think you need to get at least a shot of Alcatraz somehow incorporated into the shot. Not sure how it would work out but I could see a Muci in the forground, "the rock" in the background, and a caption: RELEASED

It was inspired by a photo of my brother when her first bought his 65' Mustang:

 

That pic kicks ass! Totally captures the enthusiasm and the Bay. It should be published in an auto mag.

 

Hi Joshua,

if you get to SR before 8:30 a.m. and stand by the "T" across from Pete's coffee you can get some nice shots of arriving cars.

See 'Ya, Larry

 

Josh I hope you'll cover Miniacs too (Mini Coopers) they're all over the Bay Area and the owners are really passionate about driving too. I can PM you a site that has enthusiast because I don't want to direct traffic over there from Fchat.