This is a stunning Behind The Scenes (or BTS) video shot and edited by Richie Thomassen of Wynn Ruji shooting the new Jaguar XJ. You won’t learn much about the shoot from watching it, but you will be inspired by the quality of video that can be achieved with a Canon 7D. Jaguar XJ | Behind the Scenes from Richie Thomassen on...

In just over a week (6th to the 8th of August), 35,000 members of the entire UK modified car scene descend on Santa Pod drag strip for USC – one of the biggest weekenders of the year. It’s like a noisier, less civilised version of Goodwood! There are monster trucks, a jet car, Terry Grant’s stunt show, pro & run-what-ya-brung drag racing, the Fuel Girls and even some nutters trying to modify a car from standard to...

If you have even a passing interest in cars or motorsport you can’t help but love the Goodwood Festival of Speed. Every July, Lord March opens his grounds to tens of thousands of petrolheads. All the major car manufacturers build what can only be described as huge showrooms and the top F1 teams roll up in their trailers. An event not to be missed by any respecting car...

The Sextons Grid Girls weren’t the only thing I shot whilst at Modified Nationals this year. Here are some more shots from the show.

As Zack Arias said in his recent 3 day extravaganza on CreativeLIVE; a studio is any place with a floor and a couple of walls where you can control the ambient light. That includes a barn on an agricultural show ground in Peterborough. Ladies and gents, I welcome you to “Studio J” I’d shot in one of these barns before so I had a fairly good idea when I got there what I wanted to try. A quick word with Chris, driver of the...

Last weekend, FHM Holiday Honey and car show regular, Georgia Graham made the trip down to Bristol from the North East for a shoot. We’d been planning for a few weeks, so by the time the day arrived I’d compiled a list of locations to go with her styling ideas and although nothing was set in stone, we had a good idea of what we were working to achieve. For the gear heads; we were travelling light as we had to carry everything...

Every April, hoards of Italian cars and bikes descend on Bristol’s Old city, centred around Corn Street. You’ll find everything from Fiat to Ferrari and Moto Guzzi to Aprilia. This year I decided to try something a little different. Instead of using just the available light and adding a wink of fill with an on-camera ETTL flash, I got the light a bit higher. A lot higher in fact – about 10 feet up at the end of a monopod...