Thanks Bill. I like a wee bit less DOF myself. Most of my selects were
at f8, but I chose to post this one because I like the reflections
better than some of the others. At f8, the tail tends to get just a
tiny bit soft at this focal length, but the separation from the
background is, of course, bettter. I might actually prefer a slightly
higher camera position as well, but the mag wants them as low as I can
go. I shot some handheld right on the ground.
Paul
On Sep 1, 2009, at 8:15 PM, William Robb wrote:
----- 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
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