[ratpack] Re: Artsy-fartsy stuff from the Autorama
- From: Mark Smith <muttley128@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Rat Pack <ratpack@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2010 15:41:36 -0700
Ray love the artsy shot. Its just cool for some reason. Maybe because
everything is starting to be that way in my own eyes after work.
The pinup shots are great. wish they didnt have all the barriers with the
chains. The shots would just be better
Mark
Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2010 08:38:41 -0700
From: rbuck@xxxxxxxxxxxx
To: ratpack@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [ratpack] Artsy-fartsy stuff from the Autorama
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
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