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Michael Febbo, who joined us at this year’s Orange County Auto Show, shared his experience of what it’s like behind the scene of a photo shoot.
The lovely vehicle in question is the stunning 1971 Lamborghini Miura. He found the exotic to be a car guy’s dream. The car itself, he notes, is beyond description, looking like an amazing piece of art. According to Michael, Lamborghini only produced 21 of these beauties over a span of three years. Each car is hand-built so no two are exactly alike and he found himself just staring at every little detail on the car. And he would have plenty of time. Taking excellent pictures is painstaking work. The studio, he writes, is enormous, easily able to accommodate six Miuras. Everything, from the floor to the walls to the ceiling is white with the corners rounded to prevent any unwanted shadows. The Miura is not so much driven as carried around the studio on rolling wheel jacks. Can’t have anything, he points out, from tire marks to exhaust, smudging any white surface. Picture taking then begins and there are a lot of them. Every shot is literally taken in triplicate at different angles, camera setting, and lighting. Fortunately, the sheer beauty of the car kept Michael from falling asleep, fidgeting, or worse, eating (no crumbs in that room!) Finally, the last shots were taken and Michael had to say good-bye to the Miura. He has a new appreciation of how much work really goes into each magazine month to month.
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