Put my rig to work!
I was headed down to the southside of ATL for a meet last night and knew David was going to be out in his well done Rio Yellow AP2 S2000 with very legit parts. We got together right before the meet to set up for a single rig shot. I couldnt sleep last night so I decided to do an image build and some desktop wallpapers. Hope you enjoy!
Davids S is lightly mod’d but done right with very nice parts. The mod list consists of….
J’s Racing 70rr exhaust
J’s Racing Tsuchinoko Intake
J’s Racing ETD and STB
J’s Racing Cooling Plate
APR GT3 Mirrors
Spoon Monoblock Calipers
Stop Tech rotors
Advan Racing RZ’s
Kics Project R40 lugs
Function and Form Type 2 coilovers.
This is how I went about the post production of this rig shot…click for the full size….
Here are some desktop wallpapers for the S2K fans out there……
Calling ALL Mitsubishi Evolution owners in ATL!
The Official EvoATL Photoshoot was planned to take place a few weeks back but it was canceled in fear of bad weather. So here we go with round two! Most people know I put A LOT of work into my photography which generally makes for great results but it also makes for photoshoots that arent whats considered cheap(atleast not in the Atlanta area). After talking to many of my friends on EvoAtlanta.com we decided to put a great package deal together as long as I got 10 cars willing to do the shoot. For Evo owners this is a chance for me to shoot your car at a HUUUUUUGE discount over what I normally charge for a full shoot. If you cant make it, I understand…just get with me when your ready for a full shoot at full price hahhhahaaa!
Check out all the details and Atlanta’s own local forum dedicated to the Mitsubishi Evolution right here….
I broke down and made a Facebook Fan Page
I said I wasnt going to do it, I said I didnt need something else to mess with while Im on the internet lol business has been slow lately though and I just spent A LOT of money on nice camera gear a few months back. Money is tight and the last thing I want to do is have to sell one of my nice lens to take care of bills….thats a horrible thing to think about! So PLEASE do me a favor, become a fan of my photography of facebook and suggest my page to your friends and lets see if I can get some work going again!
CHADBEE PHOTOGRAPHY.COM FACEBOOK FAN PAGE
THANK YOU!!!
FRIEND HAS STROKE WHICH RESULTS IN PARALYZATION AND BRAIN SURGERY
some people might remember my good friend EricP from the project motorsports car club days and the car scene a few years ago. he used to drive this car….
he isnt as active in the car scene anymore since he no longer has that car but has been out to many trackdays and events with me in the past few years and still remains a very close friend to me.
this past friday night eric came back home from the gym to tell him brother he had a headache and go into his room. a few minutes later his brother went in to check on him to find erics computer chair knocked over and him unconscious on the floor.
what the doctors are saying is he strained himself at the gym that night which caused a block in the artery in his neck, because of that block his brain started to swell and cause him to have a major stroke.
the left side of his body is paralyzed and he has major brain swelling. they had to shave his head, cut his scalp back and remove 50% of his skull to allow room for his brain untill it goes back down. they have put his scalp back over his brain and he has 60 staples in his head. they are saying he will be like this for 3-6 months untill they can put his skull back together. he is also on a ventilator to help him breath an they have said if he isnt going to be able to do it own his own by thursday they are going to do a tracheotomy (a hole in his throat for a breathing tube). they have also given him a 50/50 chance of getting feeling and movement back in the left side of his body and ever walking again.
this is going to be a very long and very hard time for eric and his family. they said he will be sent home from the hospital in 2-3 weeks and will have to wear and helmet to protect his head for the next 3-6 months along with many months if not years of physical therapy…..and like i said its still a 50/50 chance if he will be able to walk again.
financially they are going to also have a very hard time. eric will not be able to be left home so his mom(the only parent) will not be able to work so bills are going to stack up fast with no money coming in. if anyone would like to make a donation to help eric and his family through this very difficult time im sure they would more more than thankful for any help they can get….they are really going to need it. if you decide you would like to make a donation please paypal me and i will give erics mom the money. my paypal is chadbee1982@yahoo.com. please mark it as a gift and put in the notes that it a donation to help EricP and his family.
PLEASE keep eric and his family in your thoughts and prayers.
UPDATE: THIS MORNING(MAY 28TH) ERIC PASSED AWAY….R.I.P. to my friend Eric Partin aka EricP aka EricPezzy….you will always be remembered and never forgotten. i love you buddy.
Formula DRIFT 2010 Round 2: Road to the Championship
May 7th and 8th is pretty much my favorite days of the year. Its like Christmas in the middle of summer for car enthusiasts here in Atlanta. Formula Drift is without a doubt THE automotive event of the year, nothing else can touch it in my opinion. If you have never been, you just wont fully understand that statement and brush it off as me just being over dramatic. If you have gone then theres nothing you can do but agree with me cause we both know Im right lol. The sight of these INSANE drift cars coming down the hill at 90MPH+ and blowing there tires off feet from you is something that, while your watching it, it really doesnt sink in…its just too much badassness. Once again this year I had a media pass to get a little closer to the track and go places most people cant. I wanted to make this blog post to give out desktop wallpaper’s of the top the finishers but you can see all my photos from this past weekends event by checking out my HOME PAGE
Chris Forsberg and his NOS Energy Drink Nissan 350Z was #1 in Atlanta last year. This year he left with a respectable 3rd place finish…
2nd place went to the man in the Monster Energy/Falken Tire Ford Mustang known as Vaughn Gittin
Dai Yoshi finally comes out on top with a #1 finish in his Discount Tire/Falken Tire Nissan S13
So…..how many weeks do we have left till Formula Drift 2011?!?! UGH. Hurry the hell up May 7th and 8th!!!!
Formula Drift is coooomiiing!!!!!!!! OH EM GEE!!!!!!
Im hyped up. Formula Drift is without a doubt my favorite car event of the season here in Atlanta. Its just so much awesome-ness that a single person cant really take it all in. Its an over whelming experience to say the least. If you have never been I highly suggest you make it out to Road Atlanta on May 7th and 8th. I will be out there shooting again this year and im very much looking forward to providing some sick shots to all my friends. Since last year I have upgraded from a Nikon D90 to a full frame Nikon D700 and from a Sigma 70-200 f2.8 lens to a Nikon 80-200 f2.8 AF-S lens so I have the proper camera gear without a doubt for this years event. I think me as a photographer has also made some good progression in both my shooting and post processing so needless to say Im ready to see what kind of event coverage I produce this year.
Here is a video from last years event from one of my favorite videographers Will Roegge
Formula D Atlanta 2009 from Will Roegge on Vimeo.
Im so freaking ready for it!!!!!! Are you? 
Rally red TE’s on rally red IX….
My homie MikeP picked up a set of TE37’s a few days ago and decided to do something pretty crazy with them. Rally red Volk TE37’s in 18×9.5, an offset of +22 and 255/35/18’s. Here is some wallpaper desktop images of it….
I was bored and in need of a laugh.
While wondering around the world wide web a few weeks ago I came across this Youtube prank video I thought was pretty funny. You can skip the “oh man thats older than the internet” comments cause I dont care =)
A few days later I had some time where my mind started drifting and I LOL’d at the thought of this video. Then I thought to myself you gotta be pretty brave to do this to a woman knowing she will be holding a broom stick after the bowl of water comes to crashing down onto her head. Just to have alittle fun I posted up on my home forum offering a free rig shot to the 1st person that did this to their girlfriend/wife and got it on video. I didnt think anybody was going to go through with it. One of our local guys that drives a murdered out Maxima DID go through with it and posted the video in my thread. I laughed, and laughed and laughed……..and laughed. It was great. I am a man of my word so I told him to come’on out to my side of town and lets slap the rig on the Maxima and get it done! Hopefully the shot was worth it to him….it was definitely worth it to me LOL
Top 10 reason’s I <3 Import Alliance ATL spring meet
This past weekend was the 2nd time Atlanta hosted the spring Import Alliance meet at the World Congress Center parking deck. This takes place in the HEART of downtown but the entire weekend is filled with good people and good times. We try our best to show our guests a good time. Pre-meet activities that I heard about and/or took part of were everything from MANY MANY car meets lasting to the early morning hours, huge house parties, visits to Atlanta’s finest gentlemen clubs, a drift event in downtown this year and cook-outs. We allow no bitch-ass-ness the weekend of IA here in Atlanta. In honor of this epic(i hate that word but nothing describes it better) weekend we just had Im going to count down my personal top 10 reason this WHOLE weekend was just AMAZING. In no particular order…
1. Bewbies
2. VTEC sauce
3. “HOLY SHIT DID YOU JUST HEAR THE AMOUNT OF BOOST GOING THROUGH THAT THING??!?!”
4. “Chadbee!!!! What up homie!!! You want a beer?!??”
5. Sooooo many well done, clean cars with the right parts.
6. Can after can of Monster’s
7. GREAT people
8. The sound of BOV’s firing off every few minutes
9. Keg stand at a car meet? Really? Hell yes!
10. Knowing that even though your only on a few hours of sleep getting out of bed will be soooo worth it.
Basically this can be wrapped up only one way….
Fila ft LiL Scrappy – foreva i love atlanta – MyVideo
=D
Even though I didnt take as many photos as I expected to because of just being caught up in the activities you can see a decent set right here….. Canibeat
Im one sick and twisted person!
DISCLAIMER #1: IF YOU DO NOT LIKE DISTURBING HUMOR EXIT NOW.
DISCLAIMER #2: ONE OF THESE PHOTOS IS NOT SAFE FOR WORK.
DISCLAIMER #3: NO HOOKERS WERE HURT IN THE MAKING OF THIS SHOOT.
It may strike people are weird but I keep a pen and piece of scrap paper on my nightstand by my bed. When Im falling asleep, just waking up or on the way back from taking a piss at 4am I think of some really off the wall stuff. I get these weird ideas about alot of things in life. Most of the time though its about themes for photoshoots or just an idea for a single shot. When this happens I scribble it down so by the time I wake up and come back to reality the idea isnt lost in my brain. One day after I ate dinner I was looking through the official see through hood shot thread on Nikoncafe and telling the n0obc@k3s that doing this technique doesnt MAKE a photo. You just cant take a shot of a car in the middle of a crowded parking lot in the middle of the day with harsh daylight sun beating down on it and people walking around in the background but do the see through hood technique and it make the photo “epic”. It can ADD to a photo but it will not MAKE the photo. Im sure this had something to do with this disturbing yet so funny idea that pop’d into my head as I was just almost off to sleep that same night. When I woke up the next morning I had an idea of what I was thinking about before I fell asleep but I checked my scrap paper and it said “see through trunk rig shot with dead hookers in there”. 99% of the people I have talked to about this shot understood what I was talking about but for those that havent heard this expression let me explain. Its a common expression to describe the size of a persons trunk LOL like “oh man you could fit 4 dead hookers in the back of that impala”. So Im thinking oh my gawd….a see through trunk rig shot that looks like the car is riding off into the sunset with a few dead hookers in the trunk? I smiled and thought to myself about how amazing this was gonna be. Now i just had to get a car that was worthy and a couple hookers to kill. I had been planning on shooting my buddy Cliff’s G35 sedan for awhile for Canibeat Blog and decided his G would work perfect. Instead of hiring some real hookers and having to kill them, risking jail time and the AIDS I got intouch with two of my friends named Kari and Rachel and convinced them that they needed to dress up like hookers and let me put them in the trunk of a car and play dead. Interesting conversation for sure LOL after promising to not shut the trunk lid and drive off with them for real they agreed to do it cause they are awesome. So I got everybody on the same page as far as a date, time and place and got ready to do work. Kari and Rachel got their hooker-ish outfits together, Cliff got the car cleaned up and I made sure I had a fully charged battery and clean lens. This past saturday we met up ready to handle business. The hookers in the trunk was the main goal for this shoot but I wanted a couple more shots for Canibeat as well. Im giving you a lil something for each of the 3 photos from this shoot….
The 1st shot the something extra you get is a lil drool on your chin…
The 2nd shot you get some desktop wallpaper images…
For the 3rd shot you get a SICK before VS after edit….Im pretty happy with the outcome of this never been done, sick and twisted but so funny rig shot. This is how us ATL boys do it, we ride out with a couple dead hookers in the trunk. Get like us.
I also want everybody to give a warm welcome to Canibeats newest exclusive photographer……that would be…..ME!!!!!!!!!!! GIGGITY GIGGITY GOO!!!!
Make sure to check out Canibeat for the full feature on the car and these images in a little larger resolution!!!!!