MS Photography

Roadster Garage Product Shots

2011-01-05T00:47:00.000+11:00

So the other day, Adam from Roadster Garage asked us to do some product shots for him, here are the outcomes. Check out his shop for some of your car needs.

P.S; THE BLOG IS BEING REBORN! Will be blogging more often now, new year, fresh start.

Stay tuned fellas. Peace.

Adam's NB8

2010-09-14T22:08:00.003+10:00

So it's been awhile since we posted and guess what! We had our first magazine feature! Even though it's an online magazine, any publicity is good publicity right?

Adam's car has come along way. It was bone stock when he got it, and now look at it! It's a beauty.

This is how it looked before:

And after a few money spent this is how it sat:

Shot by Kevin Yiu, check out his work at http://kevin-yiu.com/blog/.

And this is how it sits now:

I was rather happy when Adam asked me to shoot his car, but to also tell me that the pictures would be published for an online magazine (Miata Journal), I was cheering! Thanks for letting us shoot your car Adam!

So it was time to decide on location, we were really stuck on this part. Michael has only gotten his license for a few month now & we really hadn't had the chance to scope out some locations, but almost every week we would go for a drive to National Park. So since we know the place rather well, it seemed perfect for Adam's NB8.

Here are the shots we took:

Keys:
# = Yet to arrive/purchase
* = Yet to be installed

Engine

Mazda BP-4W Automatic Engine
I.L Motorsport Bonnet Lift Kit
NOPRO Washer Bottle Relocator Kit
GMB Waterpump
CBC Timing Belt Kit
RoadsterGarage Engine Damper
Flat Black Intake Plenum
Satin White & RG blue Cam Cover
Hand Polished Bolts
Various Braided Lines
Dahtone Racing Depowered Steering Rack
Deleted A/C
Mazdaspeed Resivour Covers
Maruha Oil Baffle*
Maruha 78 Thermostat*
Mazdaspeed Competition Motor Mounts*
Gates Racing High Performance Timing Belt*
Gates Racing Water Pump*

Air/Fuel

RoadsterGarage 3 Inch Intake
BMC Carbon Fibre Inclosed Air Filter
BPI Racing Velocity Stack
Walbro Fuel Pump

Ignition

OBXR 10.5mm Blue Spark Plug Wires
NGK Copper Spark Plugs

-Cooling/Lubrication

Cooling Pro 50mm Radiator
Autogauge Water Temp Adaptor
Autogauge Oil Sandwich plate
Castrol Oil

Exhaust

Npower 4-2-1 Headers
RS*R Exmag GTII Muffler
RoadsterGarage/Custom 2.5 Inch Midpipe
Lukey Performance Resonator
Apexi ECV

Transmission/Drivetrain

SE Clutch Master Cylinder
SE Clutch Slave Cylinder
NB8B Manual Pedal Kit
NB8B Power Plant Frame
ORC Racing Super Single Clutch
ORC Lightweight Flywheel
ORC Pressure Plate
NA6 5 Speed Gearbox
Mazdaspeed Replica Short Shifter
Locked Diff
4.1 Final Drive
NB8B Manual Tailshaft
Custom Braided Clutch Line
Redline Shockproof Gear & Diff Oil

Suspension/Chassis

Mazdaspeed NR-A 7 Point Rollcage
Whiteline 24mm Heavy Duty Front Sway Bar
Whiteline 14mm Adjustable Rear Sway Bar
Racing Beat Rear Lower Control Arm Brace
Flyin Miata Frame Rail Brace
Carbing Front Strut Brace
Carbing Rear Strut Brace
G4 Racing Coilovers
iConcept Inner Tie Rods
Beatrush PPF Brace

Brakes
RDA Slotted Rotors
Project Mu Type NS Front Brake Pads
Ferodo Excel Rear Brake Pads
Motul RBA 660 Racing Brake Fluid

Instrumentation

Autogauge Air/Fuel Gauge
Autogauge Oil Pressure Gauge
Autogauge Water Tempreture Gauge
Autogauge Oil Tempreture Gauge
Autogauge Boost Gauge (Currently being used as a vaccum gauge)
Modified JDM Gauge Cluster
Pivot 3 Stage Shift Light

Interior

OEM Mazda MX-5 Stainless Steel Scuff Plates
Engine Start Button
Worksbell Splash Hub/Boss kit
Sparco R215 Steering Wheel 350mm
Mazdaspeed Horn Button
Two 1kg Fire Extinguishers With Custom Mounts
Dori Handbrake Button
Knobmiester Visor Blanking Plates
Lotus Elise S1 Seats
RoadsterGarage Rails
Camzilla Rollcage Camera Mount

Exterior

I.L Motorsport Clear Side Indicators
Bomex Front Bumper
Bomex Side Skirts
Modified Mazdaspeed A-Spec Rear Lip
Rolled & Pumped Guards
US/JDM Red Rear Reflectors
RoadsterGarage Mirrors
Headlights With Clear Indicators
RoadsterGarage Front Tow Hook#
RoadsterGarage Rear Tow Hook
Beatrush Number Plate Bracket
Garage Vary Eyelids
D1 Generation bonnet pins

Wheels/Tyres

Superlite GTR Painted Satin White And RG blue
16×8 -1 Front
16×8 +4 Rear
Blue Lightweight Lug Nuts
FireStone Fire Hawk Wide Oval 205/45/16 tyres

It was fun shooting this car. Reading Adam's build thread on JDMST it has come along way, a very long way & he should be happy with the way it has turned out. I guess what's most important about this shoot was that now we know what to do & what not to do when doing an automotive shoot. And also that we've met two great people to be our friends.

Be sure to check out Adam's blog (Roadster Garage) for more updates on his car.

I hope you guys liked the photos and hopefully there will be more automotive shoots to come.

THE-LOWDOWN & JDMST EOMM

2010-09-01T20:50:00.002+10:00

I think it's safe to say PICTURE OVERLOAD! This might have been the biggest meet to date. The weather was beautiful, there was a shit load of cars & I made a few new friends. The boys at THE-LOWDOWN did a good job organising everything & I hope there will be another event like this in the mere future.

Anywhos, I hope you guys enjoy the pictures that I took on the day, updates will be coming very shorty.

Stayed Tuned Guys!

2010-08-15T22:31:00.000+10:00

Mwahahaha, here's a little tease.

Lets Bring It Back Oldschool: FB33

2010-08-14T01:49:00.004+10:00

On the way to our destination.

Blue skies. Wooooo.. Perfect day to shoot.

Ze boys at work!

Changing the power output on the flash.

Okay let's try it now.

Setting up for the rig shot.

And now for the back.

All set and ready to go.

And here are some of the shots we took of the car..

Front.

Lurking from the shadows.

Side View.

Back view.

Having some fun while heading home. The camera did really well at ISO 3200!

It was a wonderful day, great learning experience. It was good seeing how the pros do their work and hopefully we will learn from what they teach us. I've always wanted to build a rig, but money always gets in the way of everything. After seeing the shots that Brasher did it makes me want it more! Time to save up!

Anyways this is one of the shots that Brasher did;

As you can see I've edited our pictures very similarly. Why have I done this? Photos are taken to capture moments and let the viewer have a feel of what is going on. In this case the images that we've edited gives an old school feel which really mixes well with the car. Old school car, old school feel.

Well to sum this post up, it was a great day. Wonderful weather, met new people & learnt a few things. If you guys get a chance, flick through Brasher's blog (http://brasherphotos.blogspot.com/) or visit his flickr (http://www.flickr.com/photos/brasher/), his work is amazing!

Thanks for looking! Updates will come very soon! Cheerios.

Wendy's 32nd Birthday

2010-08-02T10:02:00.004+10:00

Bichy boo

Say cheese!

Paris' card to Wendy

Ana's car to Wendy

Paris, Bich & Ana

Happy family!

Katie & Paris

Katie

Ana

Christal

Ze cousins & nieces.

Thanks for the present Bich! Mwah!

Ngawww.. Sisterly love.

The sisters.

3, 2, 1 smile.

Wendy & I

Mimi & Wendy (Oroton)

Nom nom nom.

Paris

Mimi & Wendy (Zippo)

Ed's signature pose. LOL

Hennessey!

Overall it was a good night, food was great & got to spend time with the cousins/nieces. Seafood overload! It was awesome!

The menu consist of; Singapore Chilli Crab,
                              Singapore Chilli Lobster,
Seafood Spring Rolls,
                              Salt & Pepper Crab,
                              Scallops &
                              Steamed Vegetables.

The night was followed by ABL Club, but I didn't want to bring my camera there just incase. My flash batteries were almost dead & I didn't have another set ready. Anyways Happy Birthday Wendy!

Photo Manipulations

2010-07-31T01:15:00.001+10:00

Missing you Brov <3

Human Puppet

Stuck inside the T.V

Fruit Brain

I was watching Twilight and Jacob popped out of the monitor.

Maybe I should look for a career in modeling. What do you guys think?

Cheerios, thanks for looking.

World time attack : Superlap.

2010-07-28T10:11:00.001+10:00

It has been a very long time since i have made a post on here as Steven has been updating the blog thank god to him if he wasnt here this blog would be completely dead, so i thought id show you guys some of my work from a few months ago at superlap, well here it is!

The amazing Cyber Evo.

This Rx7 was definately magic hence the name, R Magic.

This cressida was NUTS!
Drifting.. now that's what I'm talking about.

Love the Matte Black finish!

CATC

2010-07-24T23:34:00.000+10:00

I'm surprised how close you can get to these guys.

This is art..

A world of art here now!

Mission completed

The demos were fantabulous, too bad I didn't take pictures of the other demos.

Some of the work they do. My back started hurting so I left, but most likely I'll be attending this college

Street performer, he was pretty entertaining. (Clouds were so epic today!)

oooOOOO.. Fire.

Pull boys, pull & make sure you don't let go.

Juggle, juggle, juggle.

Juggle, juggle, eat.

Success, I got the crowd clapping.

Another street performer.

Heading back to the area. I'll say it again, clouds were so epic today!

Weeeee.. So fun driving this thing.

Can't help to go over 4,000 rpm, love the pull.

Me; Lets take photos
Paris; No!

Me; Too bad!

Stackers.

I've got a better drive than him. LOL

Smile!

Just a little update since there hasn't been an update for so long.. Cheerios, until next time! Thanks for looking.

Happy Eighteenth Cousin

2010-07-04T22:50:00.010+10:00

Zee Birthday Girl.

Lighting the candles.

Blowing out the candles.

Cutting the cake. (Go through mother f**ker)

Success!

Garie Beach.

2010-06-20T20:30:00.003+10:00

Learning Experience; Model Shoot With Sidd

2010-06-14T13:48:00.012+10:00

Location; Abandoned Dunlop - Slazenger Warehouse

A few pictures of the place so you guys have a feel of what it's like there.

Some behind the scenes sheezy!

Here's the first outcome.

Teacher & Student.

Experimenting is good.

5D MKII w/ 70-200mm f/4L

70-200mm f/2.8L & 24-70mm f/2.8L

Alien Bees B800

Sidd's Camry - Take Michael & I for a ride next time.

Great learning experience, Thanks Sidd for teaching us about studio shooting and what not. If you want photos to be done check out Sidd's website (http://www.sidd-rishi.com.au/) and click on "Contact". If not, check his work out, they're AWESOME!

One of Sidd's shots (Models; Julijana & Sam - thanks for letting us take photos of you guys)

I hope you are willing to teach us more Sidd, you know you can use the help with carrying the equipment :)

Black & White; Where Everything is Dull

2010-06-09T15:38:00.004+10:00

Grudge Rachel

Bagala

Floura

Aydn

Xander & Ellie

Steven & Kiet

Anh & Hong

Srdjan

Mai

Stanley

Angic

Angic, Kirstie & Rachel

Mytien

Rachel

Mytien & Steven

Ronald

Tessa

VICHIDVONGSA

THE M-ANH & DEATH!

TIMMY!

5H1-F7Y

lbtNGUYEN

iv skin

Canon + Samsung

You guys don't like black & white? Well too bad!

Vivid Sydney

2010-06-06T13:40:00.002+10:00

BLAH!

Self Portraits; Steven V. Phan

2010-05-29T14:29:00.001+10:00

So I read up on a Portrait Photography book & decided to take some pictures.

First of all, it was great fun and I know what you guys are thinking (I'm gay), but it was worth the practice.

I am also building up a portfolio & was thinking of putting the first photo in? What do you think?

Superlap; World Time Attack Challenge

2010-05-29T14:00:00.001+10:00

Any car fanatic that missed out on this event, very disappointed. It was FANTASTIC!

Awesome cars, nice day out, heaps of practice & you can decide how the pictures are.

Can't wait for next year!!

JDMST April EOMM

2010-05-02T16:23:00.005+10:00

Great meet, nice & friendly people, photos, what more could you want?!

Lego Goodness

2010-04-26T19:56:00.000+10:00

Wedding

2010-04-18T18:05:00.004+10:00

The Couple

Cutting the Cake

Bride & Groom Dancing

Bride

The Cake

Flowers

Mum & Dad

Fatboy & Dad

Glass Cup

I wasn't the photographer, but it was good practice. Got to know the lighting and all those other crap, LOL.

Tiring Bike Ride, But Good Outcomes

2010-04-14T21:53:00.003+10:00

Spot the sigs

Ridin' Dirty

2010-04-08T17:28:00.002+10:00

Grafittiiiii

2010-04-05T00:37:00.000+10:00

Go Kart FUN!

2010-04-01T22:00:00.002+11:00

Westside Mother Fucker.

Local Meetup

2010-03-21T02:03:00.001+11:00

FON22Y

XE55IV

6 Months and Still Thinking

2010-03-18T22:14:00.001+11:00

So it's been exactly 6 months from today that my beloved brother has left us. This is just a rough idea of how I want my S13 to look to remind me of him.

Some Pictures

2010-03-16T20:30:00.000+11:00

Green

Dragonfly

Look closely, there's web coming out of it's butt!

Red Ring Lens

RAV4

530i

2010-03-14T19:36:00.003+11:00

Old mans car.

VK Calais

2010-03-13T12:06:00.004+11:00

School Netball Court FTW! LOLOL

Steven's Ninja!

2010-03-12T16:25:00.000+11:00

Beautiful isn't it?

My new setup :)

2010-03-11T23:46:00.000+11:00

YEAH BOY! almost done, just one more thing.

Birthday List

2010-03-09T18:03:00.002+11:00

Since my birthday is a month away, here is a list of all the things I want.

So if you guys can get me anything from this list, you are awesome! LOL

Playing with the RC-1

2010-03-07T23:00:00.002+11:00

Riding the Harley

Lets go flying

Your eyes are playing tricks on you.

Boredem

WotCHA!

Colour Colour Colour!

2010-03-07T13:05:00.000+11:00

NAs

2010-03-06T11:17:00.000+11:00

NSX Photoshoot

2010-03-03T22:34:00.000+11:00

Sooner or later there shall be a real car photoshoot ;)

So I Got A New Tripod

2010-03-01T21:25:00.001+11:00

Manfrotto Leg

Manfrotto Tag

Manfrotto Head

Next on the list shall be another lense?

What do we have here? A 50mm F/1.4 lens!

Getting to know Photochop!

2010-02-26T01:56:00.000+11:00

The Super Normal Bike.

She's Topless.

What are you doing out at this time old timer?

I'm back, Clearer than ever!

"Kevin Drawing"

2010-02-22T23:59:00.001+11:00

This took me about 3 days to finish, it was hard but I did it. Hopefully my future people drawing would look as good or maybe even better then this one.

Any ideas on who to draw?

Randomness.

2010-02-14T01:15:00.000+11:00

50D w/ 17-40mm & Speedlite 580EX II

From this..

To this

Woosh!

Bed Jumpers!

2010-02-14T00:17:00.000+11:00

Fail Jump by Mike.

Steven hit the roof.

Next time we do this we are gonna hire a hotel or beach house and have some fun with the beds haha!

BLAH BLAH!

2010-02-11T19:35:00.002+11:00

Do we look alike ?

It's that time of year again. woot woot!

Eagles

Guitar Lighter

Waterfall

Asian hat, because I'm Asian

Happy 21st Pete

2010-02-07T15:17:00.003+11:00

Pete & his mum

Mike (The Boss)

Johnny

Daniel

The Boys

Beer

Pimping

Bro & Sis

Brazilian dancers (drools)

Chocolate fountain

Pauly

MOAR Randoms.

2010-02-07T15:12:00.001+11:00

Peanuts coated with coconut

After a long wait, it's finally home

FD3S

Fruits

"Kevin Phan"

2010-02-05T18:40:00.000+11:00

Got Bored..

2010-02-04T11:53:00.000+11:00

Flower Roaming in the Backyard.

YEAH BOY!

2010-02-02T14:53:00.001+11:00

Beethoven - Dad's inspiration

Bumble Bee

Green Tea

Phan Bros

Current Setup

It's a sony

Woot Woot

UOW

2010-02-01T18:10:00.000+11:00

Day Out @ City

2010-01-31T21:28:00.000+11:00

mmmm... Reflection

Poor Lonely Mike

Johnny, Steven & Alex

Johnny, Mike & Alex

Shoe heaven

Anchor

2 Strong ass Torches

Stuff.

2010-01-28T17:19:00.000+11:00

Bumble Bee

G-Star RAW Denim

Keyboard

Master Lock

Nom Nom Nom

2010-01-26T20:32:00.000+11:00

Looky here at what the postman dragged in today.

MS Photography

2010-01-23T15:32:00.001+11:00

Which Header ?!

Creative enough for ya'll ?

Got BORED!

2010-01-19T20:15:00.000+11:00

ck one & davidoff cool water deep

Colour Pencils

New Port Beach.

2010-01-17T18:50:00.000+11:00

It started to rain on dad :)

The ocean is crooked

Whooosh

Pretty clouds

A few big as pebbles

Speedlite Goodness

2010-01-16T21:29:00.000+11:00

Jonathan

Tomato

Pose!

Smile

Peek-a-boo

Family

Courvoisier

So then you don't get bored of steven ;)

2010-01-14T20:48:00.000+11:00

What are you looking at, Huh Punk?

Just so you don't get bored of our blog.

2010-01-14T16:54:00.000+11:00

Texture

BIC

Fender

Flower

G-Star RAW

Zippo Box

Bondi Biatches.

2010-01-09T21:57:00.000+11:00

Steven & Angic

Ellie & Rach

Havaianas

Easy Way

Scenery

2010-01-06T21:15:00.000+11:00

17-85mm

Eagle

Canon 580EX II Speedlite Flash

Zippo

Yamaha

Big boss at work (In the background)

A taste of sunset Photography.

2009-12-30T22:08:00.000+11:00

Hmmm.. We slowly getting good :)

Getting into the chirstmas spirit

2009-12-26T12:27:00.000+11:00

Ornaments; Don't I just look cool?

Like A Star (8)

My family but someone missing : (

JagerYuck

STi

Husband & Wife

Kissing mummy

When I try to kiss dad

Whoop whoop whoopi

2009-12-23T23:25:00.000+11:00

Courriere XO

ngawwww.

2009-12-23T01:12:00.000+11:00

Just a work mates little daughter, Cute huh?

Phoenix, does she look naughty ? Cause she is.

Just another random bike ride.

2009-12-22T22:36:00.000+11:00

I try to get out as much as I could and take photos of whatever looks good to me, or whatever I think will look good : )

Rose & Pencils

2009-12-22T22:30:00.001+11:00

So if I'm not taking pictures, riding my bike or hanging out with my friends, this is what I do

Reflection & Scale

2009-12-21T19:27:00.000+11:00

Reflection shot

Cigarettes weight that much

More random shiet.

2009-12-21T13:20:00.000+11:00

My obessions with hondas are over. Nissans are the way to go : )

2009-12-21T02:44:00.000+11:00

Tattoo <3

2009-12-21T02:29:00.000+11:00

Random Shiet.

2009-12-20T23:05:00.000+11:00

Skyline Show 'n' Shine

2009-12-20T23:01:00.000+11:00

So today mike came over and we went for a little ride.

2009-12-20T22:52:00.000+11:00

Ninja!

2009-12-20T22:45:00.000+11:00

Frigging RAV4 killed my shot.

Fast cars.

2009-12-13T13:16:00.000+11:00

Just a bit of long exposure shooting. :)