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Yeah, would've been good if I had a picture of him making some spectacular fielding play, right? Well, I'm still a rookie when it comes to photographing baseball, and he just moves so damned fast.
Here's the part where I ask y'all for some help:
A writer friend and I have been working on a project called Sunset for a little while now -- it was originally going to be a photographed comic book, but now it has transmorgrified into a novella with photographic illustrations on every other page. Here's one of the images from the original test I shot last winter, shortly before Theo's birth and my resulting photographic hiatus:
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Well, I'm getting the ball rolling again (finally), and I am in need of certain things that I don't just have lying around, and I figured that someone out there in the Batter's Box Toronto-area community might have these things and might be friendly enough to loan 'em to me for a few hours.
I need a lot of things (and I need to do some additional casting, too, but I'll get to that next week), but here are the ones I'm really struggling with: I need to borrow two cars.
I won't drive them and I won't need them unsupervised. I'll only need each car for a couple of photographs and should be able to get them done in one short evening. Here's the hard part: I need some really distinctive cars.
Car number one needs to be a total junker that was possibly once a nice car but has seen better days. It has to be believable that the alarm system in it is worth more than the car itself. It has to be visibly beat-up from the exterior. I'm looking for something not too campy (not an AMC Gremlin or a Chevette, for example, and a Pinto would be just barely okay) and preferably with a lot of rust. A beat-up dashboard and/or steering wheel would also be a plus, but are not essential (and I could shoot the interior in a second car if I had to).
The second car needs to be somewhat menacing and cool at the same time. Classic American muscle cars would be ideal. I'm also partial to the new Charger, if anyone has one of those (or who has a friend who works at a dealership who wants to loan one out for an evening and come out of the deal with some kickass photographs of it). And if any of you out there are one of the maniacs who is spending $427,000 on a new Baldwin-Motion Camaro, please let me know. Even if you don't want to let me photograph it, I'd like to tell you just how much I envy you.
It doesn't have to necessarily be a muscle car -- if you have a vehicle that you think has some menace to it and would be believable as a speedy car, drop me a line. Something customized and distinctive-looking would work.
My budget for Sunset is virtually zero, and what I have will be tied up in film and having the damn thing printed, so I can't really pay a rental fee. I can, however, offer frame-worthy fine art prints of the finished shots, signed copies of the book and a thank-you in the credits, if and when it ever gets done.
If you think you can help me, or if you know someone who could, please drop me a line at aaron@aaronreynolds.ca.