I spent about 6 hours shooting the Autorama yesterday. I was able to use my SCTA credentials to get in as a "member of the media"...'Course the fact that I've worked with the promoter (J C Hackett) for years didn't hurt a bit. I think I covered less than half of it and was pretty beaten up physically by the time I got thru...well, decided I'd had all the fun I could stand. I expected to be in pain city this morning, but actually feel pretty good. I'm sure that the aches and pains (and shortness of breath) will be back in short order as I go back to finish up.
I'm gonna attach a coupla shots, then get to work editing them before I go back for another stint. Supposedly the hall will be open for an hour after the paying customers (and all their ill-mannered ankle biters) are shooed out...but that'll be after 10 pm. Not exactly my favorite time to be out shooting. But I'll do what I have to.
If you haven't seen this show, I recommend it highly. Entrance is $15 for adults and it goes down from there: http://www.autorama.com/casi/show/saltlakecity.php It's very large. I think it has as many or more cars and bikes than I've ever.
I'm attaching a coupla shots. Strangely enough (for me) they both contain Fords. The shot of the blue and white 55 Crown Vic includes my friend, Jade Pinup (I think it would be a safe bet to say that it's a "trade name") who posed for me in front of that car. She's trying her damnedest to break into the modeling business which is about as easy as breaking into the photography business. I've known her for several years and I try to help her out when I can, so she'll get my photos pro bono.
The other shot is another attempt to get something meaningful or comprehensible from a car rotating on a turntable. It's a 1934 Ford Phaeton...well, a hand-built replica of one. I tried to do this at the Auto Expo in January but I wasn't very successful. So I decided to do it a little differently. I got several long exposures of the car as it rotated in front of the camera...I used 6 seconds as the "shutter speed" if you can all it that. Then I shot one with a 1/25th speed, hoping to get any background movement blurred, but with the car relatively sharp. Then I combined the 2 in Photomatix (HDR processing program) and fiddled with the knobs, so to speak until I had the stationary shot in the middle of the blurred one and made more adjustments to refine the software-generated double exposure. I like it. I may end up doing a 20x30 poster of it, just cuz.
I've done a buncha A/F kinda things and they'll end up on my website asap...which better be before Thursday, cuz I'm gonna be in Boise for the Roadster Show.
I gotta get to work, since I wanna be there a coupla hours before they open to the public (which is at 11 am, so I better hurry.)
More later, RtR -- Sent from my Dreadnought using that gawdawful Thunderbird email program
Attachment:
1934 Ford 02 005_6_tmr8.jpg
Description: JPEG image
Attachment:
1955 Ford 01 002r8.jpg
Description: JPEG image
