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Car shots
Q I’m both a keen photographer and a car nut. I’ve seen some images in car magazines where the vehicles are moving, but the car is sharp and everything else is blurred. How do they do that?
Jonathan Hartley
A You are referring to what’s known as a car-to-car shot: car magazines use them a lot. It’s a great way to convey speed and dynamism, and give a different viewpoint to a photographer on the ground.
Specialist car photographers will often use rigs. This is a bit like a boom arm: it can be fixed to the car being photographed, or to a car in front or behind. This means that even if you use a slow shutter speed, the subject
