09-08-2016, 10:15 PM | #1 |
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Car Photography spots around Charlotte and Lake Norman
So I am relatively new to Charlotte and have no idea where any of the good car photography spots are. Anything with an interesting background like the downtown skyline, landscapes, industrial areas, grafitti walls or really anything at all that would be a good background, but not someplace where I might get shanked. I live in the Denver area so if you know of any good places in or around the lake that would be cool too. (I may go scouting some of the boating areas but they are super crowded during the weekends) I am thinking about doing some detailing and photography stuff for some friends I autocross with and see where it goes from there. Even if you just have some cool example photos to share I may be able to determine the general location where it was taken and then check out the area in person. Thanks in advance!
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09-14-2016, 11:42 AM | #2 |
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I just moved to Charlotte too. There's a couple cool places. There's a park on the southern end of the lake in Huntersville. Davidson is a nice area. Out west near Kings Mountain would be cool too. Mooresville I would imagine has some nice areas too. If you want to cross the boarder, Lake Wylie would be nice as well
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Lake Wylie looks pretty awesome from the pictures I just glanced at on the google, it may be something I will have to check out later. I have not been through Davidson before as it is the long way around the lake for me to get to Mooresville. Do you know of any specific locations in the Kings Mountain area? I really appreciate your reply, if you find any others please let me know.
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09-14-2016, 04:40 PM | #4 |
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I haven't been to Kings Mountain at all. Lake Wylie is less populated than Norman is so you'd probably get some good pictures there. Love your 1LE by the way.
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09-15-2016, 01:04 PM | #5 | |
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And thanks about my car, just be warned that when you get your 2017 1LE I am going to bug you until you come to autocross it at zMax with us.
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09-15-2016, 01:29 PM | #6 | |
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As for Z Max, how often do they do Auto Cross events there?!? I am also waiting to order a 1LE so I will be very interested in this! |
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09-15-2016, 02:22 PM | #7 | |
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I hope to get to do more car photography now that I am getting information on some good shot locations so once you guys get your 1LE's hit me up and we can maybe work something out. I am also doing detailing out of my garage in the Denver area, but I think that might be a bit far for you guys to drive but keep me in mind just incase. As far as Autocross is concerned we have an event coming up next week on the 24th at zMax, I posted the event information here in this subforum http://www.camaro6.com/forums/showthread.php?t=465872 We would love to have you sign up and come drive or even just come by to watch. We have them a little more than once a month from late February to early November. We have 3 remaining for the season, the one this weekend, October 15th and November 5th.
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09-15-2016, 02:52 PM | #8 | |
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For the Autocross I won't be able to make those last few events this year since I'm out west for training right now and won't be back until late October/early November, and theres no telling how long we will have to wait to get our new cars :( But next spring if I can get some time to take a few leave days for an autoX weekend that will definitely be happening! |
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09-15-2016, 03:33 PM | #9 |
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Over here in downtown Mooresville has some cool old buildings with old school painted backdrops, like an old Coke mural and some old Cadillac signs and such that were being used for filming of Banshee some time back.
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Wow its funny that you say that since I just remembered that earlier yesterday from when I went there to pick up my tags last year. That whole strip there is full of older red brick buildings and the side streets have those painted murals. There is even the train tracks going through the middle. I think it would be a great place to do a shoot, but those side streets where they murals are are very narrow and I wouldn't want to block traffic. Maybe some ninja photoshoot in the middle of the night or something would work without pissing anyone off.
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09-16-2016, 09:40 AM | #11 | |
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09-16-2016, 10:54 PM | #12 | |
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There are some very cool spots in that area. One is a crazy awesome rusty metal barn further down the road next to a church which will make a great backdrop! I will go drive by them in the daytime next week probably Wednesday just to see how they look now as opposed to google street view but this looks really promising! Here is an example of the type of picture I would like to take. It is only my second attempt at light painting and the setting, my garage, is pretty uninspired but I think it turned out pretty sweet.
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09-17-2016, 09:05 AM | #13 |
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Yeah some of those murals they recently just redid after they were done filming down there.
Cool picture!
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