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Photo Highlight Reel: Doug And Taylor Gregory’s Favorite BangShift Photos Of 2014 – Boy These Guys Were Busy!


Photo Highlight Reel: Doug And Taylor Gregory’s Favorite BangShift Photos Of 2014 – Boy These Guys Were Busy!

(Words: Doug Gregory – Photos: Doug and Taylor Gregory):  I’ve seen others do a favorites at the end of a calendar year to highlight their favorite photos across all their submissions.  I got together with my son and we worked to come up with our top 50 from 2014.  Now this isn’t a viewing of our favorite cars.  These are our favorite photos.  First we gathered a list of 100 then began the various processes of elimination.  We eliminated photos that didn’t have enough of this or that or had too much of one thing or another.  Each photo has its own merits and I wasn’t willing to modify anything to make it more ‘inclusive’.  The final round of selection saw us getting rid of photos for poor reflections and very minor stuff.  This is not to say there aren’t errant reflections, shadows, or clutter in the backgrounds of these, but when those are present – the strength of the subject and the overall composition wins – with no editing.  Some need no explanation such as Taylor’s incredible photo of Rob Ida’s Porsche from the ECTA event last September.  Taylor posted that on Instagram and Mr. Ida even liked it.  Less than 15 cars are actually a shade of red.  The image containing  a C5 with the two first-gen Camaros looks like a Chevrolet advertisement.

The image from Gravelrama with the nitrous’d Big-block ‘Bad Company’ beginning its run has so many things going on with it.  The tires start to wrinkle, the gravel rooster tail is just lifting, the starter is shielding his face, and another photographer is capturing the moment.  The SN95 Mustang photo is of a friend’s car.  He recently added these wheels and tires then came to the Boonesborough Boogie.  I hadn’t taken pictures of this car in over a decade so we moved it over to a vacant parking lot and I got to stage some clean shots.  Likely my favorite of all is the see-through hood image I did of Omer Fowee’s Dodge Dart.  Yeah, I started off saying that none of these images had been fooled with and that’s true for 49 of them.  This is one I wanted to try for the article and its my first attempt at one of these.  Looks like it turned out pretty good to me.

In here there are images taken from Wilmington, Ohio to Somerset, KY and several points in between with nearly every event being reached using our ’64 Chevy II along with at least one of my sons.  2014 was one of my favorite years ever.  There should be something here nearly every gearhead can like.  I did not include any of my old photo scans.  I like them, but going out with my sons makes the current pictures more special….at least to me.   Enjoy.

SCROLL DOWN TO SEE DOUG AND TAYLOR’S PHOTOS FROM A GREAT 2014 – THANKS FOR YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS!

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9 thoughts on “Photo Highlight Reel: Doug And Taylor Gregory’s Favorite BangShift Photos Of 2014 – Boy These Guys Were Busy!

  1. Grippo

    Great stuff Doug and Taylor! I love the Pro Street Camaro under the lights and that Maverick launch shot. Killer engine shots too. Looking forward to more next year.

    1. doug gregory

      Thank you sir…!!! Means a lot to have folks appreciate the stuff we try to share. Next year we are hoping to do a bit more racing stuff, but will still hit as many shows, rod runs, and cruises as possible.

  2. Tedly

    Guys, these are awesome. I love the fact that you get more than just the mandatory 3/4 profile shots and go for details and interesting, eye catching things too. Keep it up!

    1. doug gregory

      Much appreciated. We respond favorably to praise. We have gotten ourselves used to shooting various heights and angles so that we don’t really have to think about it much. We also take about 4x the number of photos you all see in here so there will be a selection to choose from.

      1. Tedly

        Same thing with me. I try to get a 3/4 shot of damn near everything, but I like things that catch my eye, like odd juxtapositions or cool details (like the reflection in the hubcap of that deuce). Sometimes it’s just the way the light flows over curves. You guys have it down better than me though.

        1. doug gregory

          Well, I’m 47-years-old and have been taking pictures of cars since I was about 10 or so. My 14-yr-old son has been taking pictures now since he was about three, but been somewhat serious about it for about 3 or so years. I still learn something every time I go out and screw up more pictures than turn out, but that is the nature of anything. I draw too and when my sons get frustrated with their drawing I drag out a sketch pad with all my half-done drawings and screw-ups. Wasn’t there a famous painter that would repeatedly cover up a painting on canvas then paint another one over that then repeat the process over and over…? Yeah….same thing. Few people get it right the first time or all the time and most-likely its less than half the time.

        1. doug gregory

          I’m 6’2″ and my camera has a tilt screen so I can get a pretty high angle, but at shows with lots of people walking around and backgrounds that are less then desirable I still can’t get it high enough for a clean shot. Problem is not a lot of cars look good from a really high angle. When there is a lot of stuff and people around I like to try for a super low (like camera on the floor low) so that there is little or no background. Doesn’t always work and…..not all cars look good using a low angle either. Not being able to stage a photo (shows, cruises, racing, etc) means having to live with the ambient lighting which often dictates angle more than anything else. i.e. too much glare from bright cloudy days tends to wash upper body lines out with the background. Sometimes I see it and sometimes I don’t. What’s worse is when you rush to take a shot (car moving, leaving, whatever) and the picture looks good initially on your tiny camera screen, but when you get it downloaded details are lost or there is a pole sticking out of the roof or someone popped their head up above the hood at just that instant. When I feel energetic that when I open up GIMP and start cleaning things up. Doesn’t happen as much these days, but does still occasionally. My wife calls it ‘cheating’.

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