Hi all! New to fstoppers and relatively new to photography. I absolutely love cars and just started shooting them. These are a few from a recent car show which limits the location obviously. Either way, let me know what you guys think!
-Robert
Hi all! New to fstoppers and relatively new to photography. I absolutely love cars and just started shooting them. These are a few from a recent car show which limits the location obviously. Either way, let me know what you guys think!
-Robert
Great photos! Nice attention to detail and framing!
Thanks! I only used my nifty fifty which added some additional complications with so many people and the cars so close together.
Yeah the nifty fifty is a great lens but definitely hard to use at car meet/shows
What camera are you using?
Yeah having the prime makes me want another, maybe the new (cheaper) 24mm. I'm just using a Nikon D3200 so those are 50mm on a crop sensor at that.
Where abouts was this car show?
This was the 40th annual Pumpkin Run Nationals. Just outside of Cincinnati. It's unique in the fact that no car entered in the show can be newer than 1970. The day I was there it was cold and rainy and there were still about 2300 cars there. It's a 3-day car show that we have every year.
Definitely some good potential. I'm in roughly the same territory as you. Kind of new, love automovite photography.
That last one's great, with the rich color along with all the rust and rain water. I think setting the truck along the top or bottom third lines (rule of thirds) might have given it a bit more, it's still a great shot as is.
I'm a huge fan of the straight-on face shots, too. Too bad that tent or whatever is breaking the symmetry, but yeah, nothing you can do at a show like that.
Looking at the first, I'm seeing something that I've seen in a lot of my 50 f/1.4 shots. I'd love to see more detail in the whole dash instead of being locked into that shifter, cool as it is (and of course if that was what you wanted to focus on, great job!). While the razor thin depth of field has some great uses, I'm seeing a lot of places where I've gone full open and locked the focus tighter than the picture wanted. There have been a lot of shots that look really neat at first, but when I go back to them a few times, I'm always wishing there was more in focus. I've been seeing that keeping down to 2.2 or 2.8 can still give pretty good bokeh, while getting some better depth and more information in the shot. I'm not sure if newer lenses still have this, but my FD lenses have a depth of field scale on them that I need to start paying more attention to. If you have that on your lenses, don't let it go unnoticed. If not, take some test shots and get used to what kind of depth you get for various apertures.
Given the convenience of a digital camera, just be sure to keep shooting all the time, but at the same time, slow down to think about your shots.
Thanks for the feedback! I find that if I'm photographing something I love it comes to me a bit easier.
The truck I absolutely love how it came out. I should have framed a little better but people kept walking in front of me so I took it when I could without paying attention to my thirds rules.
The tent and the mass amount of people everywhere did affect some of the shots that would have been really neat if it were just me and that particular car. It was a lot of fun using that to my advantage to get creative on a few of my other shots.
I do agree with you on the dash shot. When I took it I purposefully focused on the shifter. After seeing it on the computer back home I wish I had stopped down to 2.8 or so because it would have given me that creamy background still.
Last car show of the season (much smaller) will be Friday night so maybe I'll come away with something interesting!
Absolutely. You obviously have some excellent cars in your area, and you're doing a great job getting what you can in the tight quaters of a car show.
Also, props for using something like a 100mm equivalent. I just did a show by my place with a 35mm on a film camera, so actually 35mm. Telephoto like that would be a nightmare, so again, props.