----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Stenquist"
Subject: PESO: A Million Dollar Maybe
I shot this car at a show in Ohio. I was camped out at a nearby airport, and the magazine editor sent the cars to me that he wanted shot. This one arrived in a trailer, and I had to shoot it under heavy clouds with intermittent drizzle. We had just wiped some raindrops off of it here. The car is a 1971 Barracuda with a 426 cid hemi and four speed. It's 100% numbers matching, fully documented from the day it was born and a 99 point + rotisserie restoration. While these cars were fun, they were cheaply made and twisted like a pretzel under acceleration. But there nostalgia pieces. The last one this nice to be sold at auction went for more than a million dollars. This car should bring close to that if sold, although I think the present owner intends to keep it. The original owner sold it several years after he had purchased it for $1500. K7 plus DA 60-250, f 13 @ 1/30th, off the tripod: http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=9722476&size=lg
Oh Yeah, thats the ticket. For myself I think you've got it a little low in the frame and I prefer a ~VERY~ slightly higher POV and less depth of field. Leave it a sense of place, but not much more than that. OTOH, you know this stuff better than I do. Great car, nice shot. William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
