This past weekend I built a nice car rig to take some rolling car photos for a friend of mine. We have been talking about it for awhile and we finally decided that we should just try it. The entire car rig cost me about ~$150 which was pretty nice. I used a wired remote and walked with the car as it moved since I did not figure out a way to trigger it using my Radiopopper JRx’s (didn’t get around to it) :

Things needed :

• Avenger suction cups (2x) – I bought the one with the fixed spigot. HIGHLY recommend getting these, they are so strong
• Manfrotto super clamps (3x)
• Manfrotto magic arm
• 5ft pipes (4x)

Here is a quick picture showing you how far the camera is from the car. For more behind-the-scenes photos click here

Results

And here are some results that took maybe only 1.5hrs to take. The longest part was pumping the suction cups to ensure that it was on tight and the pipes wouldn’t come crashing down damaging his car and my camera at the same time.

Final thoughts

I wish that we picked up sturdier pipes because it was shaking a lot. We are currently looking up ways to stabilize the boom arm from shaking so we would be able to get sharper photos. It would also have been a lot better if the sky wasn’t cloudy. Since my friend’s car is silver it just blended in with the white sky making it boring, and low contrast.

So this past weekend my mom and I had decided to try making our own Lychee and Orange jellies using Agar Agar which is a gelatin that is made from seaweed. Agar Agar is great where you don’t have to refrigerate for the jelly to harden and depending on how much water you put in it, it can harden within 10mins!

Agar Agar comes in different forms either a brick or flakes. I normally buy the clear colored ones so that I can use food coloring with it to it any color I want.

After heating up the agar agar with water and juice we poured the mixture into molds where I then put pieces of fruit into so that each one had a bite of lychee/orange.
For lychee we added coconut juice and orange we added orange juice.

Lychee Jellies

Orange Jellies