Ray,
Great explanation! You're nuts, but in a good way! Awesome dedication, I learned a few things reading your email. Thanks John for the link to your site, excellent work. You can appreciate what Ray is doing day in and day out, along with building a racecar. I admire both of your work, it's interesting to see individual styles approaching similar events, that's what I love about photography!!
It's a good day to be a Rat-Packer.
G'night all,
-Nate
--- On Thu, 6/30/11, Ray Buck <rbuck@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Ray Buck <rbuck@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [ratpack] Re: Car show photos
To: ratpack@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thursday, June 30, 2011, 9:22 PM
Thanks, Nate. Yeah...I have a saying: "If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing." I guess that counts as heart and soul. :) I do what John mentioned. I shoot the entry card of every car that I photograph. If I somehow miss it, I know what most of 'em are but I also have a pretty big collection of reference photos so I can go find something that looks like it. However, at the VLV show, there WERE no entry cards, since there are no prizes, classes or trophies. Just a lotta gang fights. :) There are a coupla years of cars that are REAL hard, if not impossible to identify. 1928 & 29 and 1930 & 1931 Model A Fords. The two types are easy to differentiate (unless it's a '29 Briggs Steelback Sedan...then it looks like a 30/31...ya gotta go by the grill) but I just resorted to guessing if there was nothing like a license plate
or graphic on the car or.... Anyway, that's the easy part. I can usually get the photos renamed by the time I go to bed the night of the show. Preparing 'em for the web is another thing. I found that if I do the framing of the photo so that all that needs to be done is resize 'em...well, then there isn't enough vertical dimension to prepare it for an 8x10 or 11x14 print. So I have to shoot for print size, then crop for web size...and do any color correction, sharpening, etc and add a watermark. Then I run Thumbs Plus to create the thumbnails and web pages, but there's still a lotta HTML coding that has to be done. I guess you could say that I'm a glutton for punishment. :) Here's a couple more little deals: I'm getting rid of all my Epson printer stuff:  There are the 3.5 printers shown, a Continuous Ink
System, chip resetter, many cartridge sets (mostly full) and much more. I'm gonna ask $400 or reasonable offer. Ohh...none of 'em will recognize a cartridge as being valid...even a refillable cart that's been reset. I'm also sending a 2nd CIS back for a refund cuz it kinda blew up when I tried to install it, then didn't work...might be the printer and not the CIS's fault, but I'm sending it back, nonetheless:
  I spose they spewed ink cuz of the altitude (it was shipped from California), but I didn't appreciate the mess it made. I figgered the first one was a fluke, but after the 2nd one I had a paper towel (ok, almost a roll) over the opening when I removed the shipping plug to install the vent plug. Grrrr.... This is what's replacing it:  A Canon PIXMA Pro 9000 Mk II (sounds like a spaceship or something) that was considerably more expensive than the Epsons. Now I can't get the damned thing to print 11x14s, since that's not one of the options for print size. I've been messing with custom settings and haven't found it yet. I'm afraid that I'm gonna use all the damned ink with test prints. Btw, it prints on Epson paper just fine, but ya gotta juggle the settings a bit. So that's what I did on my summer vacation...or something. Tomorrow I should be able to get my 18-200 lens back from Steve Kew...$200 to repair the damage from when it tried to commit suicide by leaping off the tripod. Yeah, I know. It was my fault. Saturday I'm going to Logan for the Cache Valley Cruise-in, probably the biggest show in the state. It's all in the fairgrounds with hundreds of trees
and variegated light, which makes it a bitch to shoot. Seems like the only way to get a decent shot under those conditions is to shoot from the completely shaded side and use a flash. So I'll put the flash on the 40D and use the 7D for other shots. I know when it's time to leave that show. It's when I wanna start using the camera(s) as a weapon on the ill-mannered, grubby-mitted curtain climbers (and their brain-dead parents) who keep walking right in front of my camera. Then I go get in the Burb, drive to a convenience store, buy a Gatorade and head home. I've never made it to the end of the show in all the years I've been shooting it. :) Enuff babbling from me. r On 6/30/2011 4:19 PM, Nathan Nickerson wrote:
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Nice, Ray, nice. You do an excellent job! I can tell you put your heart and soul into everything you do. Labeling alone has to take a ton of time - and that's after documenting everything at the show, huh? I hope you see the rewards from participants following up with you!
Keep up the strong work.
From: Ray Buck <rbuck@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [ratpack] Car show photos
To: ratpack@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wednesday, June 29, 2011, 11:28 PM
http://www.chevyasylum.com/cruisin/cruisin2011/20110625/Welcome.html
These were shot at the Angel Hands charity car show last Saturday. The light was great with minimal shadows. No "under the trees" stuff. My daughter-in-law and granddaughter showed up and we had a great time. There's a photo of them on the last page...and I think there are a couple where they're in the background. It was a lotta work, and I was totaled by the time the shooting was done. But being fresh outta working printers, I couldn't even make the prints that I'd offered as raffle prizes. They're ready to print, just waiting on the new Canon printer to arrive (sposeta be tomorrow) so I can see how well things work with Epson paper and
Canon printer/inks.
r
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