Vintage Alfa Shoot

This has to be one of my best shoots ever. Ok…with that said I’ve got a lot to live up too. Three Alfa’s here, a 58 Spider Veloce, 59 Sprint, and 67 Duetto. 3 wonderful cars, it was a real Veloce in beautiful period blue, full rubber matted interior and leather seats with blue piping. The Sprint was done in red and grey just like it left the factory, even the headliner was perfect, and the Duetto, a 1600 with webers, red seats and red carpet and all original. I searched long and hard to come up with the perfect location, I wanted it to feel as if we were looking at those vintage Road and Track covers from the 50’s and 60’s. I drove through Beverly Hills… leaving flyers and knocking on doors, drove through Hancock park… knocking on doors and leaving flyers, and then to Pasadena, yes, knocking on doors and leaving flyers. Well every now and then someone opens the door and like a blessing you discover the perfect location. I couldn’t have asked for anything else, the scale was perfect and hands were shaked… now I just had to find the rest of the cars. I went out to Santos’s shop in Northridge, I found the Veloce there, back into town… went to Omega Motorsports and talked with Uve, he put me in touch with Allen, the owner of the Duetto, and putting post on the AlfaBB, and talking with Autobooks and Norm from the Alfa club, Alfa Milano and John’s Alfa I found the Sprint. Call time was 9am, a saturday morning, the same morning as Monterey / Pebble beach. I didn’t want to make it too early since everyone was driving from around town. It was still a little cloudy at 9am so I started with the details, interior and exterior and by the time I was done we had nice hard sun, Alfa’s look great in hard light if you place them just right. Now I only had the house location from 9-2, so I had to work smart and fast, so onto the master beauty shots, with variations and verticals. Then the singles, front 3/4 and rear 3/4, and don’t forget the motors!! Well it was 2:18 when we finished not bad timing, so you know what that means “lunch”. I wanted to do something nice for everybody, Alfa owners are a special breed and lunch should be Italian. We went to Il Forniao in Pasadena old town and ate all we could hold… but wait we still have more to shoot, The driving shots, using local roads we wound our way around for car to car, dappled light with tree canopy’s overhanging, and the sound. The cars are about 6 feet off my bumper and I can hear the Weber’s sucking air into those fabulous 4’s, a real treat and the pictures aren’t bad either! Every now and then work turns into fun, it’s still work, but boy, you get home and start going through the images grinning from ear to ear. I even got a “thats very nice” from the girlfriend, thats when you know you’ve done good!