A friend of mine who lives a distance away had been scouting around my local area on Google maps for potential car photography locations in anticipation for the next time he comes to meet me. Luckily he managed to stumble across 'Guy's Cliffe House' in Warwick.
With the location within a 5 minutes drive from home, I had to go check it out straight away. The building behind the pictured structure seems to be an events location, and the gate to the site was open for cars to enter. The small space in front of the structure was completely deserted, with no distracting light aside from a small floodlight lighting up the area from behind where I was shooting. This light can be seen in my images, and I attempted to use it to my advantage. I used my own car as a subject, since the location was so close to me, and I decided to try out the location at very short notice. I used my Sony a35 DSLR and my Samyang 14mm wide-angle for all of these images, with exposure times between 20 and 30 seconds.
After I was satisfied that I had shot the angles that I wanted, I was very pleased with the night's shoot so far. Highly self-motivated to shoot a few more images I continued another couple of minutes on the road to another location I had spotted while on Google maps; a small bridge over a dual carriageway, in such a place that would attract very little traffic, due to the route only leading to a few houses and a couple of farms. As I was already with my equipment and pumped to shoot more, I couldn't miss the opportunity to shoot long exposures of motorway style traffic.
I plan to return to these two locations at night on December 6th, with the aforementioned friend who is coming to see me for a couple of days. I will be photographing both our cars, potentially with another friend who may be joining us. I hope I can match and improve on the success I had with this short shoot.
