Auto Show 2025
Last Sunday, the Collegeville Volunteer Fire Department held its annual Car Show. They had more than a hundred cars on display, and there were more than a thousand attendees. My beautiful assistant (my wife) had to work, so I was without a tripod and my usual complement of gear. Plus, it was very bright and so hot (90+ degrees Fahrenheit) that I only stayed for about an hour.
This isn't exactly the result I had in mind that day. I stood at one end of the show, leaning against the traffic control vehicle, and shot 55 frames. The hope was that the people around the cars would disappear like long-exposure waves around shoreline rocks. I loaded these as separate layers in Photoshop, used Auto-Align and Auto-Blend, cropped, and made minor adjustments to color and contrast.
Most of the other hundred or so frames taken that day are much more conventional street photography that I will not impose upon this experimental group.
2 Comments
You certainly captured the busyness of the day! You almost did achieve your goal. The people pretty much do disappear into the cars.
That's a pretty wild image Andrew.
I think I would personally crop out at least some of the static background to tell more of the story of chaos, but love the creativity.