This week a different type of artists is featured in this section. This is when a great photographer manages to combine two of his love affairs, Photography and Slot Racing. This is the story of Rainer Selzer.

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It was Exactly seven years ago (December 2009) when the passion of motor racing in scale 1:32 got a hold of Rainer.

“My aim was clear: I wanted to build a racetrack, which has the perfect setting for model racetrack pictures”, he explains.

After 4 years of construction, his Carrera race track was finally finished and he was able to compose the first photographs. This was also a good time to start to design his website, so he could share his work of passion with the world.

He built all the buildings from 300 gram photo cardboard. He also added more than 200 figures to the set which are all hand painted.

“Through my Slotracing hobby, I have discovered the joy of photography and I was thrilled when I finally was able to make the first photos” comments Rainer.

Although he was pretty happy with the results he was getting from his digital camera, he felt that the images required the appropriate depth.

After some search it was clear, that he needed a lens reflex camera with the possibility to control by the manual aperture setting, the depth of field.

Full of joy, he started photographing with his new camera, a Canon EOS 700 D with EF-S18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS STM.

Furthermore he bought studio lighting that gave him around 1000 watts of light.

To put the cars in motion, he still needed photoshop. Now he was satisfied with final images.

“My aim is, to photograph the slotcars so, that the viewer has to look twice if it’s a real car or not” Rainer explains.

Therefore, he always try to show the cars from it’s chocolate side!

Recently, he edited individual images with different filters, to give them a special touch of art. After a visit to the Porsche Museum in Zuffenhausen in May this year, he also started enjoying photographing full sized cars.

He concluded; “The photography gives me so much pleasure und I try to improve constantly”.

You can find more os Rainer’s work on his website here.

Also, why not follow his progress and see his latest works on Facebook, here and on Twitter here.

Below you can enjoy some of Rainer’s work. As always, please respect copyright.

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