How to get featured in a magazine

MachinesWithSouls · 03-28-2019, 10:20 PM

The short answer is: have an awesome car, and know a good photographer. For the longer answer, keep reading...

I met 4DRS55 7 years ago, and following the realization that were both huge M fans ("Did we just become best friends?!"), we often took out our cars together for trips. An E92 and F80 coming down the back roads together in upstate New York was always quite a sight, and sound.

Shyam's original Yas Marina F80 was beautiful, but I knew he wanted something really unique. Once I saw his new F80, I figured it was worth a try to see if I could get it into Performance BMW Magazine. I reached out to the editor with my portfolio, and once she agreed that my work was of a high enough caliber, I had to convince her to put in the M3. This all happened one year ago.

Now Shyam's car isn't really about outright speed - it's the details that matter, and that make it really special, and the editor agreed. We did the shoot in August 2018, then waited, and waited some more, until the piece was written and scheduled to be released this month.

I've been very lucky to do this for a living - for those that don't know me, I'm the guy responsible for all the visuals on BMW's Performance Center website, serving as art director on location. Here, I just went from being next to the camera, to behind it. Hanging out the back of X5's has become a weird hobby of mine (thank you for the steady hand Kristen!)

So, how do I get my car in a magazine?
Make it special, and make it you (The guys at JRS Performance do an awesome job of dialing the cars in). If you know Shyam, you know this F80 could only be his. Match the car to your personality, with the end goal to get everything exactly as you want it. Don't settle for any exhaust, get the (insert brand here) that you really want, even if you have to wait a bit. Follow that theme throughout the entire car.

I'll be posting a tutorial next week on how to set up these roller shots, if anyone would like to know more, on my site: https://machineswithsouls.com/

The magazine is here, and covers the car in great detail: https://performancebmwmag.com/

Thanks to Shyam for helping with all of this and allowing me access to the car for the day. And don't worry, my next M3 will be as fast as yours

Highlights below.

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Mrbangis · 03-28-2019, 10:25 PM

Great pics!!!

4DRS55 · 03-28-2019, 11:07 PM

Thanks mike for the amazing pics! Can’t wait to get the red beast out of the bubble for some pics.

Mrbangis · 03-29-2019, 12:42 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 4DRS55

Thanks mike for the amazing pics! Can’t wait to get the red beast out of the bubble for some pics.

Still in that bubble!!!!?
Btw, bought the GT 2 months ago. Slowly modding her. Thanx for answering my questions while I was in the shopping process. Beautiful color and spectacular when the sun is out!

T1M3LESS · 03-29-2019, 06:13 AM

Pics look amazing!

And of course, the car is just spectacular.
Very tasteful mods Shyam 4DRS55 !

GOLFFRR · 03-29-2019, 07:00 AM

super cool

Alan l. · 03-29-2019, 08:34 AM

Congrats and definitely the most well rounded Grigio's out there!

Alan

MachinesWithSouls · 03-29-2019, 11:32 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mrbangis

Quote:

Originally Posted by 4DRS55

Thanks mike for the amazing pics! Can’t wait to get the red beast out of the bubble for some pics.

Still in that bubble!!!!?
Btw, bought the GT 2 months ago. Slowly modding her. Thanx for answering my questions while I was in the shopping process. Beautiful color and spectacular when the sun is out!

Might come out by July

MachinesWithSouls · 03-29-2019, 11:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mrbangis

Quote:

Originally Posted by 4DRS55

Thanks mike for the amazing pics! Can’t wait to get the red beast out of the bubble for some pics.

Still in that bubble!!!!?
Btw, bought the GT 2 months ago. Slowly modding her. Thanx for answering my questions while I was in the shopping process. Beautiful color and spectacular when the sun is out!

Might come out by July

Darth One · 03-29-2019, 12:25 PM

If you'd cropped the second to last picture a bit more, it would have said "MPOWER"

Congrats on the feature!

tom @ eas · 03-29-2019, 02:12 PM

Clean build!

AWE46M3 · 03-29-2019, 09:38 PM

Looks good. Love the door pulls

WOLF-PACK · 03-29-2019, 09:45 PM

Well done... boss

mike@x-ph.com · 04-01-2019, 06:52 PM

2SNAILS · 04-01-2019, 07:56 PM

Amazing & Quality build, well deserved

shay2nak · 04-01-2019, 08:16 PM

Cool! Congrats!

Are those custom wrapped Alcantara door handles?

4DRS55 · 04-01-2019, 08:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by shay2nak

Cool! Congrats!

Are those custom wrapped Alcantara door handles?

Yes sir
I had ESH do them.

4DRS55 · 04-01-2019, 08:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 2SNAILS

Amazing & Quality build, well deserved

Thank you brother
Can’t wait to get together.
Your velvet is pure

4DRS55 · 04-01-2019, 08:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mrbangis

Still in that bubble!!!!?
Btw, bought the GT 2 months ago. Slowly modding her. Thanx for answering my questions while I was in the shopping process. Beautiful color and spectacular when the sun is out!

No problem! really love how GT changes color in the sun especially when the pearl shows.

Quote:

Originally Posted by T1M3LESS

Pics look amazing!

And of course, the car is just spectacular.
Very tasteful mods Shyam 4DRS55 !

Thanks Nick! You car is perfection brother. Can’t wait to get together.

Quote:

Originally Posted by GOLFFRR

super cool

Thank you

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alan l.

Congrats and definitely the most well rounded Grigio's out there!

Alan

Likewise! Would love to get together for some pics when you come up to the farm land again.

Quote:

Originally Posted by SoManyBlueCars

Might come out by July

This Sunday cmon over!

Quote:

Originally Posted by Darth One

If you'd cropped the second to last picture a bit more, it would have said "MPOWER"

Congrats on the feature!

Thank you

Quote:

Originally Posted by tom @ eas

Clean build!

Thank you

Quote:

Originally Posted by AWE46M3

Looks good. Love the door pulls

Thanks you

Quote:

Originally Posted by WOLF-PACK

Well done... boss

Thank you

Quote:

Originally Posted by mike@x-ph.com

Thank you

Original build thread:
https://f80.bimmerpost.com/forums/sh....php?t=1513314

M3SQRD · 04-02-2019, 06:43 AM

Nicely done - quality build

MachinesWithSouls · 04-04-2019, 11:56 AM

As sort of an addendum to this, if anyone wants to see how I shot the rollers, I did a story on PetaPixel:

https://petapixel.com/2019/04/04/how...-rolling-shot/

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