CommunityOnline
Cars & Coffee with a camera: how to shoot other people's cars without being that guy
Owners will let you get the shot if you make it easy. A short set of habits that work at any meet.
Stories
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Everything that's finished is here, free. The rest of the issue lands piece by piece through December.
TechniqueOnline
The three-quarter front: why almost every car photo uses one angle, and when to break it
One angle carries the face, the length and the wheels at once. Knowing why tells you when to leave it.
Columnp. 59
How a small shop is run: shipping quoted before you pay
I lost about three hundred dollars learning this the first time. The shop is built so you don't.
Techniquep. 21
Why car photos look better at 7 a.m. than at noon
It comes down to the size of the light source. Once you see it, you can't unsee it.
Letterp. 05
Why a magazine, and why we're saying who publishes it
The first issue exists because a hundred cars were photographed and most of the frames never left a hard drive. The masthead exists because a magazine is only worth reading if you know whose it is.
Coming in Issue 01
Featurep. 09
One hundred cars, one archive, and the twelve that made the wall
Over a hundred sessions, roughly eighty finished frames each. For the first issue we opened the whole archive and kept what still held up at print size — and asked the owners what they remembered about the day.
Ownersp. 25
The daily: the roofer's Civic
Drake fixes roofs for a living and rebuilt the engine in this 1991 Civic hatchback himself. Then he did the thing most people don't: kept driving it. In his own words, once the interview is done.
Portfoliop. 33
Portfolio: eight spreads, no words
Full-bleed frames from the archive, chosen for the page, not the phone.
Shopsp. 41
Shop profile: the first partner
How it runs, what it charges, and what it politely turns away.
Featurep. 49
The photographer who doesn't exist
Four pages of cars nobody has seen, shot by someone nobody has met. Read to the last page.
Ownersp. 55
The convertible: Dylan's C8
A white C8 Corvette convertible, red inside, photographed in June in a college courtyard with the roof down. The second owner story of the issue — Dylan, in his own words, once the interview is done.