This week we bring you eight striking images of some of the most beautiful cars the world has seen, caught doing what they do best by our ace Fotoflocker Mukul Soman and the stories behind how they all happened.

"The technique used here is that of employing a slow shutter speed while photographing the vehicle from another vehicle moving at the same speed as that of the Camaro. Slow shutter speed ensures the blurred out wheels and the blurry road which depict motion. This image has undergone a fair amount of post process compositing. The sky that you see is dropped in from another image of clouds that I had taken elsewhere. So this image falls into the category of compositing rather than pure photography, the lines of which are blurred ever since digital photography came into the picture."

"This image had the potential to become an HDR rot. Well, to a certain extent I guess it has. The image works because of the street status of the Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution- a rally evolved street car, which I wanted to portray in a dramatic manner. Emphasis was on the showmanship of the car. So I decided to use HDR, using 3 exposures to arrive at the final image. I used Photomatix to get the desired tone in the final image."

"The rally super machine needed to be shown in pure action. The image was shot with a high shutter speed to freeze the action. I used a shutter speed of 1/500 at an aperture of f 2.8 as the light was fading and also because of the nice DOF I wanted to get. Processed in Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop CS5."

"Shot on a cloudy day with back light. I made 3 exposures, one for the sky, one for the vehicle's highlights and one for the shadows. Then I blended them by using the masking technique in Photoshop CS4."

"Shot with an industrial back drop. The white balance was shifted to the cooler side to give a steely feeling. The RAW image was then processed in Adobe Lightroom 3, using one of my many custom presets."

"This is my alltime favorite automotive shot, simply because of the play of light. The image was shot at an old parking lot. I placed the car such that I could get the skylight to reflect on the car and exhibit its curves. At the same time I made sure the background texture was not lit too much."

"An example of a panning shot. The camera was panned along with the motion of the car, maintaining a slow shutter speed to get the blur of motion. The sky and clouds add to the feel of the image."