On 8/6/05, Paul Stenquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Two weeks to the Dream Cruise and traffic is building on Woodward > Avenue. Must have been several thousand enthusiast type cars of various > genres out tonight. In two weeks there will be 50,000 or so. But there > were enough tonight that the Royal Oak police -- macho idiots that they > are -- started clearing parking lots at 9 PM. If you could see the > crowd of cruisers, you'd know that's something akin to raiding a > nursing home, but I digress. I went out and shot some swish pans with a > short lens and a very slow shutter speed. This one was with the FA 35/2 > @ 5.6, 1/8th second. The cool thing about this technique (short lens, > long exposure) is that, if done correctly, it yields just one point of > focus somewhere near the middle of the car. The misses outnumber the > hits of course, but I like this one. I think it's an early 70s Pontiac > GTO and an unidentified Mopar. > > http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3610553&size=lg >
I would have guessed '72 LeMans with a GTO grill (a buddy of mine had one of those, and it smoked - don't remember what V8 he had in it, but I remember he had that illegal thing that allowed one to put on the front brakes only, so one could light up the rear tires <g>). The Mopar looks like an early 'Cuda (non-fastback version - remember those?) Whatever, it's a GREAT photo, Paul. Great pan, I love the background blur, but also the blur of the cars, and the great framing. I'm sure they're not, but it makes me think of "racing for pinks"... <vbg> I love this shot. These are cars from my youth (that sadly I never owned). cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
