Just Some Car Show Photos...

[Imperialism2024]

This past weekend I went to the annual Das Awkscht Fescht, which basically consisted of about one thousand cars of varying ages and makes (practically anything more than 10 years old), but with a focus toward American cars.

Due to the tight packing of the cars, the less-than-flattering lighting, people walking around, and my accidentally leaving the D70 set at ISO 400, the photos aren't really an example of my best work. But I figured I'd post them anyway.



































This year's theme: Woodies

[beano500]

Some nice cars there!

Imperialism2024 said:

Due to the tight packing of the cars, the less-than-flattering lighting, people walking around...

I can identify with that. I end up too many times with just a "record" of a car rather than either the atmosphere of the event or some of the detail which other PHers seem to manage

I photo'd my own car last weekend only to find I had done that standard "wide-angle-vertical-format" thing down the bonnet!

Like your Woodies shots most!

[Imperialism2024]

beano500 said:

Imperialism2024 said:

Due to the tight packing of the cars, the less-than-flattering lighting, people walking around...

I can identify with that. I end up too many times with just a "record" of a car rather than either the atmosphere of the event or some of the detail which other PHers seem to manage

In two of the shots or so you can see where I tried to blur the background out of focus a little to emphasize the car, but after I did that twice I realized how much of a pain it was an how unrewarding the final product was. I took a total of 200 shots or so, but didn't bother processing most of them because the background was just too distracting.

Though I did find using wide angle to be much easier than normal focal lengths, as I was able to get closer to cars and I didn't need to get people out of as large of an area when I could get an entire car in the frame from 3 or 4 feet away rather than the 8 to 10 feet needed in previous years.

Edited to add: this is the first time I've used Curves to increase contrast and boost color for a series of photos as described in www.kenrockwell.com/tech/ps-contrast.htm

Edited by Imperialism2024 on Saturday 12th August 14:05