28th Annual Midwest Mopars in the Park


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This was our second time covering this event and I have to say the creative flow is a trickle now. How many different pictures of cars can you take?
Karen and I still came home with over 700 image files. 611 made the cut.
Old, rusty stuff has an appeal to me. There were a number of (highly) used parts and even whole vehicles that looked like they sat outside for years so I applied some filter magic to a few of them, for example:












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The harsh sunlight provided a lot of exposure challenges throughout the day. I kept the aperture usually f/11-14, not that fast a shutter, 1/250, 1/320.
But shiny cars can be fun to "artify" such as:

It was an unpaid gig but at least we were given a golf cart to drive around in and a free t-shirt.


Karen used my old D70, she got some great shots that day.
Soon after arriving, we met up with my 2 buddies, one a co-worker (Kevin, a Dodge Challenger club member) and one a former co-worker (Randy - a Canon shooter but he's really ok):

(l-r) Steve, Randy, Kevin.

Randy has gotten good at catching motion/action shots such as car & motorcycle races.  This is where you use a relatively slow shutter and follow the object with the camera.  The object should be in focus, if you do it right, and the background should be blurred and look like it is moving.
The best opportunity for these shots was the Challengers parade.  Most of mine ended up on the cutting room floor so hopefully Randy's turned out.  Here is one of my better ones:



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