A few autoshow pictures

skiboarder72 · Mar 2, 2008

From the tiny rochester auto show this year, I need to get out to detroit next year

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VaE39 · Mar 2, 2008

Nice, what lens did you use for them?

skiboarder72 · Mar 2, 2008

all of them except number 4 were with my sigma 10-20, the 4th with my new 18-200 vr

cpelsy2k1 · Mar 3, 2008

All really nice, except number 4, not really a big fan of the angle (although the car is fantastic). I think number three is my fav, reminds me of some old racing posters we used to have in my basement

GreaseMonkeyPictures · Mar 3, 2008

Is number 5. a refelction shot on the car. Just kinda looks like one lol.

skiboarder72 · Mar 4, 2008

cpelsy2k1 said:
I think number three is my fav, reminds me of some old racing posters we used to have in my basement

Haha yea it does

GreaseMonkeyPictures said:
Is number 5. a refelction shot on the car. Just kinda looks like one lol.

What do you mean? The camera was almost on the ground with a 10mm lens on...

wing352 · Mar 4, 2008

Nice shots, it's really difficult to get a good shot at the autoshow, because of the lighting and the reflection of all the lights from the cars. I am hired to shoot for one of the team at the autoshow next month and i heard about avoiding FLASH at all cost and bring faster lens. I am going to buy the 50mm f1.4 and either the 10-20mm sigma or the 10-22mm canon. Is there anything else i need to get or pay attention to when shooting? Any advise would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

skiboarder72 · Mar 4, 2008

wing352 said:
Nice shots, it's really difficult to get a good shot at the autoshow, because of the lighting and the reflection of all the lights from the cars. I am hired to shoot for one of the team at the autoshow next month and i heard about avoiding FLASH at all cost and bring faster lens. I am going to buy the 50mm f1.4 and either the 10-20mm sigma or the 10-22mm canon. Is there anything else i need to get or pay attention to when shooting? Any advise would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

This was my first year with my 18-200 VR, which was very useful (due to static subjects), and the sigma 10-20mm worked great. I used the 10-20mm for a lot of the shots because it allowed me to get very close to the cars (so people don't walk in front of your shot), the only downside is that you do get some distortion at 10mm... but by 12mm most of it is gone... just be careful at things around the edges of the photo. A 50mm f1.4 would work good but your not going to get many pictures of entire cars... unless no people go to your autoshow.

logan9967 · Mar 4, 2008

the top left area of #2 looks skewed

JerryPH · Mar 4, 2008

logan9967 said:
the top left area of #2 looks skewed

Thats normal considering the fact that its an ultra-wdie lens. This is easy to PS out, if you want. I tend to likethat skew effect some.

I also like car shows a lot and do them every chance I can get.

skiboarder72 · Mar 4, 2008

cool shots, wish they had cars like that locally for me to shoot though

GreaseMonkeyPictures · Mar 4, 2008

skiboarder72 said:
Haha yea it does

What do you mean? The camera was almost on the ground with a 10mm lens on...

It just looks like the a cars reflection a lil bit. because on the top left corner you can see a hand and camera lens and it kinda looks like you can see trough the hands lol.

skiboarder72 · Mar 5, 2008

GreaseMonkeyPictures said:
It just looks like the a cars reflection a lil bit. because on the top left corner you can see a hand and camera lens and it kinda looks like you can see trough the hands lol.

Oh i didn't even notice that... thats my cousin trying to get a shot haha

wing352 · Mar 5, 2008

skiboarder72 said:
This was my first year with my 18-200 VR, which was very useful (due to static subjects), and the sigma 10-20mm worked great. I used the 10-20mm for a lot of the shots because it allowed me to get very close to the cars (so people don't walk in front of your shot), the only downside is that you do get some distortion at 10mm... but by 12mm most of it is gone... just be careful at things around the edges of the photo. A 50mm f1.4 would work good but your not going to get many pictures of entire cars... unless no people go to your autoshow.

Thanks, good point about being able to get really close to the car using the 10-20mm, never thought of that.