Coming soon... Cars, trucks and trains.

- Childhood photos from a lifetime of being obsessed with anything that had an engine and wheels.

Photographer: Peter Phillips

Year: 1996

Camera: Ricoh 35mm film compact

-Automotive feature shoot portfolios; my favourite images from each shoot, followed by tearsheets of how it turned out in the respective magazines.

Photographer: Rohan Phillips

Camera: Nikon D300

Lens: Nikkor 17-55mm f/2.8

 Exposure: 1/3 second at F/5.6, ISO 200, tripod used.

- My cars; photos and stories about the cars I've owned since I started driving, and the inevitable windscreen stickers SAPOL presents to people who modify their cars. In this particular case, my Civic was ordered off the road within 48 hours of being stopped at a defect station, due to committing the heinous crime of the eyebrow height being a couple of centimetres too low.

Photographer: Rohan Phillips

Camera: Canon Powershot A480

I've owned 5 or 6 cars so far, several of which didn't make it to, or were just into the four figure price range, but here are the more fast & fun ones from the past few years that cost more than $1000...

1988 A31 Nissan Cefiro 

Photographer: Rohan Phillips

Camera: Nikon D300

Lens: Nikkor 17-55mm f/2.8

 Exposure: 1/60 @ f/4.0, ISO 400

Strobist info: One SB900 to the right at 1/4 power, two SB600s to the left at 1/4 power, triggered by Elinchrom Skyports. 

1994 EG Honda Civic 

Photographer: Rohan Phillips

Camera: Canon Powershot A480

Exposure: 1/800 @ f/4.5, ISO 80

1988 R31 Nissan Skyline GTS coupe 

Photographer: Rohan Phillips

Camera: Nikon D70s

Lens: Nikkor 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5

 Exposure: 1/2500 @ f/5.0, ISO 200

-Photos of my friends' cars from over the years; attending cruises, driving around and getting our hands dirty working on them.

Photographer: Rohan Phillips

Camera: Nikon D70s

Lens: Nikkor 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5

 Exposure: 1/320 @ f/5.0, ISO 200

Photographer: Rohan Phillips

Camera: Nikon D70s

Lens: Nikkor 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5

Exposure: 1/20 @ f/3.5, ISO 800

Photographer: Rohan Phillips

Camera: Nikon D70s

Lens: Nikkor 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5

Exposure: 1/1250 @ f/5.0, ISO 200

 Photographer: Rohan Phillips
Camera: Canon Powershot A470
Exposure: 1/125 @ f/9.0, ISO 100

-When cars go wrong; the bad side of cars and driving. Ranging from friends' cars being stolen, stripped and torched, to their new owners crashing into stationary objects, and even a car crashing through a wall and into a friend's bedroom.

Photographer: Unknown

Camera: Nikon D200

Exposure: 1/200 @ f/7.1, ISO 400 
 
 

Photographer: Laura Bendikov

Camera: Pentax Optio S6
 

Photographer: Laura Bendikov

Camera: Pentax Optio S6

 

-Images from Gran Turismo 5's photo mode.

Exposure: 1/500 @ f/1.0, focal length 55mm

Exposure: 1/60 @ f/8.0, focal length 35mm, Panning Mode 3

Exposure:  1/500 @ f/4.0, focal length 51mm, Panning Mode 2

 Exposure: 1/60 @ f/5.0, focal length 20mm, Extreme Monochrome filter, Panning Mode 3

 

Exposure: 1/60 @ f/4.0, focal length 56mm, Panning Mode 3

Exposure: 1/60 @ f/8.0, focal length 81mm, Panning Mode 3

 Exposure: 1/60 @ f/11.0, focal length 44mm, Panning Mode 3

Exposure: 1/60 @ f/5.0, focal length 45mm, Panning Mode 3

Exposure: 1/60 @ f/8.0, focal length 68mm, Panning Mode 3

Exposure: 1/250 @ f/8.0, focal length 158mm, Panning Mode 3

Exposure: 1/250 @ f/5.6, focal length 104mm

-Photos from 4WD outings with friends.

Photographer: Rohan Phillips

Camera: Nikon D90

Lens: Nikkor 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5

Exposure: 1/1000 @ f/8.0, ISO 200 

-Reviews of car and truck related books.

Photographer: Rohan Phillips

Camera: Canon Powershot A480

Exposure: 1/125 @f/3.0, ISO 400

Photographer: Rohan Phillips

Camera: Canon Powershot A480

Exposure: 1/15 @f/3.0, ISO 400

-Reviews of car and truck related movies, documentaries and motorsport DVDs.

 

Photographer: Rohan Phillips

Camera: Canon Powershot A480

Exposure: 1/10 @f/3.0, ISO 400

 Photographer: Rohan Phillips

Camera: Nikon D300

Lens: Nikkor 17-55mm f/2.8G IF-ED

Exposure: 1/60 @ f/2.8, ISO 1600 

Photographer: Rohan Phillips

Camera: Nikon D300

Lens: Nikkor 17-55mm f/2.8G IF-ED

Exposure: 1/50 @ f/2.8, ISO 1600

-Car and truck related clothing I've bought or been given.

Photographer: Rohan Phillips

Camera: Canon Powershot A480

Exposure: 1/40 @f/3.0, ISO 400

-Things I've learned from watching COPS. 

-Stupid car-related things I've done. (Like parking on mud to take a photo of emus) As with photography, it's a big list.

Photographer: Rohan Phillips

Year: 2003

Camera: Canon EOS 3000 film SLR
Lens: Canon 28-80mm f/3.5-5.6

Film: Fuji Superia 400 colour negative

-Sets of images from past motorsport and automotive events.

Adelaide Formula 1 Grand Prix...

 Photographer: Christo Stoyanoff

Year: 1993

Camera: Unknown

Subject: Michael Schumacher in the paddock at the 1993 Adelaide Formula 1 Grand Prix.

Port Gawler drifting...

Photographer: Rohan Phillips

Year: 2003

Camera: Canon EOS 3000 film SLR
Lens: Canon 75-300mm f/4.0-5.6

Film: Fuji Superia 400 colour negative

Photographer: Rohan Phillips

Year: 2003

Camera: Canon EOS 3000 film SLR
Lens: Canon 28-80mm f/3.5-5.6

Film: Fuji Superia 400 colour negative

Rally SA...

Photographer: Rohan Phillips

Year: 2009

Camera: Nikon D300

Lens: Nikkor 17-55mm f/2.8G IF-ED

Exposure: 1/60 @ f/9.0, ISO 200

 Birdwood Motor Museum shows and events...

Photographer: Rohan Phillips

Year: 2009

Camera: Nikon D300

Lens: Nikkor 85mm f/1.4D IF

Exposure: 1/1250 @ f/5.0, ISO 200

 

Photographer: Rohan Phillips

Year: 2009

Camera: Nikon D300

Lens: Nikkor 17-55mm f/2.8G IF-ED

Exposure: 1/60 @ f/2.8, ISO 200

Classic Adelaide...

Photographer: Rohan Phillips

Year: 2007

Camera: Nikon D70s

Lens: Nikkor 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5

Exposure: 1/320 @ f/2.5, ISO 400 

Photographer: Rohan Phillips
Year: 2007

Camera: Nikon D70s

Lens: Nikkor 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5

Exposure: 1/800 @ f/5.0, ISO 200 

Photographer: Rohan Phillips

Year: 2005

Camera: Nikon D70s

Lens: Nikkor 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5

Exposure: 1/640 @ f/8.0, ISO 200

Photographer: Rohan Phillips
Year: 2005

Camera: Nikon D70s

Lens: Nikkor 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5

Exposure: 1/100 @ f/8.0, ISO 200 

Photographer: Rohan Phillips
Year: 2007

Camera: Nikon D300

Lens: Sigma 70-200mm f/2.8 APO DG HSM

Exposure: 1/640 @ f/5.0, ISO 200 

Photographer: Rohan Phillips

Year: 2007

Camera: Nikon D70s

Lens: Sigma 70-200mm f/2.8 APO DG HSM

Exposure: 1/1600 @ f/5.0, ISO 200 

 Mallala drift competitions...

Photographer: Rohan Phillips

Year: 2005

Camera: Nikon D70s

Lens: Nikkor 70-300mm f/4.0-5.6

Exposure: 1/125 @ f/16.0, ISO 200

Photographer: Rohan Phillips

Year: 2004

Camera: Canon EOS 3000 film SLR
Lens: Canon 75-300mm f/4.0-5.6

Film: Fuji Superia 400 colour negative

Autosalon...

Photographer: Rohan Phillips

Year: 2005

Camera: Nikon D70s

Lens: Nikkor 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5

Exposure: 1/40 @ f/4.2, ISO 1600

 

Photographer: Rohan Phillips

Year: 2005

Camera: Nikon D70s

Lens: Nikkor 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5

Exposure: 1/100 @ f/4.0, ISO 400, on-camera flash

Monster Trucks...

  Photographer: Rohan Phillips

Year: 2009

Camera: Nikon D300

Lens: Nikkor 17-55mm f/2.8G IF-ED

Exposure: 1/800 @ f/5.0, ISO 200 

Hot rod, muscle car and Japanese import cruises...

 Photographer: Rohan Phillips

Year: 2009

Camera: Canon Powershot A470

Exposure: 1/3 second @f/3.0, ISO 100

 Photographer: Rohan Phillips

Year: 2009

Camera: Nikon D300

Lens: Nikkor 17-55mm f/2.8G IF-ED

Exposure: 1/20 @ f/2.8, ISO 500, tripod used

 Photographer: Rohan Phillips

Year: 2002

Camera: Canon EOS 3000 film SLR
Lens: Canon 28-80mm f/3.5-5.6

Film: Fuji Superia 400 colour negative

Photographer: Rohan Phillips
Year: 2009

Camera: Nikon D300

Lens: Nikkor 17-55mm f/2.8G IF-ED

Exposure: 1/250 @ f/2.8, ISO 400

Photographer: Rohan Phillips

Year: 2003

Camera: Canon EOS 3000 film SLR
Lens: Canon 28-80mm f/3.5-5.6

Film: Fuji Superia 400 colour negative

Photographer: Rohan Phillips

Year: 2007

Camera: Nikon D70s

Lens: Sigma 30mm f/1.4 EX DC HSM

Exposure: 1/40 @ f/1.6, ISO 500

 Gazzanats...

Photographer: Rohan Phillips

Camera: Nikon D90

Lens: Nikkor 17-55mm f/2.8 IF-ED

Exposure: 1/50 @ f/2.8, ISO 200, SB900 on-camera flash at full power.

Supertrucks...

Photographer: Rohan Phillips

Year: 2007

Camera: Nikon D70s

Lens: Nikkor 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5

Exposure: 1/1250 @ f/5.0, ISO 200

The good old days of drag racing at Adelaide International Raceway...

Photographer: Rohan Phillips

Year: 2002

Camera: Canon EOS 3000 film SLR
Lens: Canon 28-80mm f/3.5-5.6

Film: Fuji Superia 400 colour negative

Photographer: Rohan Phillips

Year: 2002

Camera: Canon EOS 3000 film SLR
Lens: Canon 75-300mm f/4.0-5.6

Film: Fuji Superia 400 colour negative

 ...as well as photos from the Adelaide Formula 1 Grand Prix, Clipsal 500,demolition derbies, Sprintcar racing, Autofest, Speedway City burnout competitions and so on. I have loads of old negatives and prints to scan from the 80s and 90s, plus more old photos from an uncle and late grandfather who have both been heavily involved with motorsport, cars and BMWs in particular for decades.

-Tickets, autographed memorabilia, club badges, trophies, entry passes and media passes from various motorsport events.

Photographer: Rohan Phillips

Camera: Nikon D300

Lens: Nikkor 17-55mm f/2.8G IF-ED

Exposure: 1/40 @ f/4.2, ISO 1600 

 Photographer: Rohan Phillips

Camera: Nikon D90

Lens: Nikkor 17-55mm f/2.8G IF-ED

Exposure: 1/60 @ f/2.8, ISO 1600

-Photos from a personal tour of the Holden Special Vehicles factory and Holden Racing Team base workshops in 1999, plus HSV launching the new VT range at the Melbourne Crown Casino.

-Links to epic car photo threads on various automotive forums.

Over on the Pirate 4x4 message boards, there's a 197 page 'Big Dumb Loads' thread dedicated to photos of huge, ridiculous and dangerous loads being moved by cars, pickups and trucks. A lot of jaw-droppingly stupid setups to look at.
Big Dumb Loads...post your pics



-Car and truck themed birthday cards.

Photographer: Rohan Phillips

Camera: Nikon D90

Lens: Nikkor 17-55mm f/2.8G IF-ED

Exposure: 1/50 @ f/2.8, ISO 1600 

-Photos from the original Japanese Motorsport workshop in 2000, when I really started to get into drifting and Japanese imports. This VHS 'Hard Tuned Imports' video was one of the first Japanese drift videos available that was done in English and made by Australians.

Photographer: Rohan Phillips

Camera: Nikon D300

Lens: Nikkor 17-55mm f/2.8G IF-ED

Exposure: 1/80 @ f/2.8, ISO 800 

-Photos of my various car related knick-knacks, particularly from Pixar's 'Cars' movie, Top Gear, Hot Wheels and truck related memorabilia. Unsurprisingly 'Mack' is my favourite character from the Cars movie, he makes a good desktop background too.

Photographer: Rohan Phillips

Camera: Nikon D300

Lens: Nikkor 17-55mm f/2.8G IF-ED

Exposure: 1/40 @ f/2.8, ISO 800 

Photographer: Rohan Phillips

Camera: Nikon D90

Lens: Nikkor 17-55mm f/2.8G IF-ED

Exposure: 1/80 @ f/6.3, ISO 800 

Photographer: Rohan Phillips

Camera: Nikon D300

Lens: Nikkor 17-55mm f/2.8G IF-ED

Exposure: 1/80 @ f/4,5, ISO 800 

Photographer: Rohan Phillips

Year: 2002

Camera: Canon EOS 3000 film SLR
Lens: Canon 28-80mm f/3.5-5.6

Film: Fuji Superia 400 colour negative

 

- Photos of model car and truck kits I've built.

Photographer: Rohan Phillips

Camera: Nikon D300

Lens: Nikkor 17-55mm f/2.8G IF-ED

Exposure: 1/160 @ f/13.0, ISO 200

Strobist info: One SB600 Speedlight at full power, fired into white umbrella to the left.

-Truckie tales; Stories from drivers I've met and talked to while doing Truckin' Life articles.

Photographer: Rohan Phillips

Camera: Nikon D70s

Lens: Nikkor 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5

Exposure: 1/80 @ f/4.5, ISO 400

-Random car spotting; pictures of interesting/unusual/bad/good cars I've come across in my travels, from 1990s to present.

2003.

Photographer: Rohan Phillips

Camera: Canon EOS 3000 film SLR
Lens: Canon 28-80mm f/3.5-5.6

Film: Fuji Superia 400 colour negative

 

2005.

Photographer: Rohan Phillips

Camera: Nikon D70s

Lens: Nikkor 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5

Exposure: 1/30 @ f/5.6, ISO 200

2011.

Photographer: Rohan Phillips

Camera: Nikon D300

Lens: Nikkor 17-55mm f/2.8G IF-ED

Exposure: 1/160 @ f/2.8, ISO 800

-Random truck photos; pictures of trucks I've taken of the years, some as part of a magazine article, and others that just caught my attention enough for me to snap a few pics.

Photographer: Rohan Phillips

Camera: Nikon D90

Lens: Nikkor 17-55mm f/2.8G IF-ED

Exposure: 1/50 @ f/2.8, ISO 640

Photographer: Rohan Phillips

Camera: Nikon D70s

Lens: Nikkor 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5

Exposure: 1/320 @ f/14.0, ISO 400 

 Photographer: Rohan Phillips

Camera: Nikon D300

Lens: Nikkor 17-55mm f/2.8G IF-ED

Exposure: 414 seconds (7 minutes) @ f/10.0, ISO 200 

Photographer: Rohan Phillips

Camera: Nikon D300

Lens: Nikkor 17-55mm f/2.8G IF-ED

Exposure: 1/60 @ f/2.8, ISO 400

-My own ‘enthusiastic’ (terrible) truck and car drawings I did as a kid when in primary school. 

Photographer: Rohan Phillips

Camera: Nikon D90

Lens: Nikkor 17-55mm f/2.8G IF-ED

Exposure: 1/60 @ f/2.8, ISO 1600 

-Paul's Pictures; one of my uncles has travelled overseas and around Australia quite extensively, and is a keen photographer as well as being right into motorbikes and cars, particularly the BMW kind.

(All photos by Paul Stoyanoff, using a Nikon D70)

 A street in Cairo, Egypt.

 Tanks in Cairo, Egypt.

 You can also see some photos from his 'Adventures of Salsa Sam' series.

 Salsa Sam waiting for a train in Stirling, South Australia.

Driving a Land Rover letterbox in the Flinders Ranges, South Australia.

 Hitching a ride on an old train in Damascus, Syria.

Riding the rails in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

4WDing in the Flinders Ranges, South Australia.

Holding a bullet casing near Tahrir Square, Cairo, during the 2011 Egyptian Revolution.

-Dean in Dubai; one of my friends is currently working in Dubai for a year, but was in Japan for a few weeks first, and has plenty of interesting car photos from his travels. This car was one of the random Japan automotive highlights- the original and very rare Skyline GT-R just sitting in traffic on the street.

(All photos by Dean Weltner, using Samsung ES15 compact digital camera.)

And a couple of more recent ones in Dubai.

-Videos of feature cars I've photographed.

-Model train layout and show photos. (Nothing pulls the ladies like a prototypically accurate representation of logging railroads in the Pacific Northwest in the 1950s, running DCC while using a 6:1 fast clock and car cards for a four hour operating session, all while wearing an engineer's hat)

Photographer: Rohan Phillips

Camera: Nikon D300

Lens: Nikkor 85mm f/1.4D IF

Exposure: 1/320 @ f/2.5, ISO 400

Photographer: Rohan Phillips

Camera: Nikon D70

Lens: Nikkor 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5

Exposure: 1/80 @ f/3.5, ISO 800

Photographer: Rohan Phillips

Camera: Nikon D300

Lens: Nikkor 17-55mm f/2.8G IF-ED

Exposure: 1/100 @ f/3.5, ISO 1600

 

Photographer: Rohan Phillips

Camera: Nikon D300

Lens: Nikkor 17-55mm f/2.8G IF-ED

Exposure: 1/80 @ f/4.0, ISO 1600 

(It seems even plastic people have gotten caught up in the whole 'planking' craze)

Photographer: Rohan Phillips

Camera: Nikon D300

Lens: Nikkor 17-55mm f/2.8G IF-ED

Exposure: 1/100 @ f/3.5, ISO 1600 

Salsa Sam isn't one to miss out on a cool new trend either.

Photographer: Paul Stoyanoff

 Camera: Nikon D70

 Lens: Nikkor 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6 VR

-Actual train photos I've taken, and associated memorabilia from family trips and holidays.

Photographer: Rohan Phillips

Camera: Nikon D70

Lens: Nikkor 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5

Exposure: 1/800 @ f/8.0, ISO 200 

Photographer: Rohan Phillips

Camera: Nikon D90

Lens: Nikkor 17-55mm f/2.8G IF-ED

Exposure: 1/60 @ f/2.8, ISO 1600 

-My portfolio of train images I shot for the photojournalism class in photography school.

-Links to train forums, photos, threads, sites and videos. Like this series of photos and video of 'Miniatur Wunderland', a staggeringly large and detailed model train layout in Germany, which is the biggest model railway in the world. To date the display has cost over $14,000,000 in material and construction expenses. 

Even if you have no interest in model trains at all, this is still well worth a look.

http://twistedsifter.com/2011/05/miniatur-wunderland-worlds-largest-model-railway/ 

-My own model trains and attempts to build scenery, buildings and small layouts and dioramas.

 

Photographer: Rohan Phillips

Year: 2002

Camera: Canon EOS 3000 film SLR
Lens: Canon 28-80mm f/3.5-5.6

Film: Fuji Superia 400 colour negative