Old cars or young women?

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Ronald_H

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Both are subjects I like a lot.

The strange thing is though that the young women get ogled a lot on my site, but barely anyone looks at the cars. Strange.

But seriously, I put up a small gallery at my site. An indoor exhibition of cars common to European roads in the 50's and 60's and the way they affected our lives.

Used my M2 with the VC 35mm 1.7 Ultron and Summicron DR. Everything was shot on Fuji Superia 400 and scanned with a Nikon Coolscan V. Despite the harsh lighting I think I got some really nice shots. Have a look at http://www.lookupinwonder.nl
 
They are good - for car shots taken in a museum setting like that. Unfortunately, I find that kind of presentation boring. And "the way they affected our lives" doesn't come through in the images.

I would love to see those same cars outdoors - without people walking around, or bits of the other cars in the reflections or backgrounds.
 
Dude.

You've got buoyant chicks on a trampoline. Why would you even think to put those old cars up against them.

Well, maybe up against them.
 
why not both?!

why not both?!

i think pretty girls in (or on?) classic cars is the ticket. i recall roger hicks talking on this theme for the AP during his days as an apprentice!
 
rogue_designer said:
They are good - for car shots taken in a museum setting like that. Unfortunately, I find that kind of presentation boring. And "the way they affected our lives" doesn't come through in the images.

I would love to see those same cars outdoors - without people walking around, or bits of the other cars in the reflections or backgrounds.
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Well, I disagree. Shots of cars like that in their natural habitat look too plain to me, although I admit I like to make them.

More people have thought the presentation boring, but I do not find it so. It's hard to get across in a few pictures, but every car has a story, plenty of archive material (road tests, artwork advertisement etc.) can be seen, as well as some video presentations. I really enjoyed it.

As for the girls... I hope to spend some more time with Bibi soon :angel:
 
I loved the trampoline shots ... a lot of them are obviously photographed at the top of the bounce where the subject momentarily becomes weightless ... makes for really different expressions and body positions etc.

The cars need to be on the trampoline also! 😛
 
Ronald_H said:
Well, I disagree. Shots of cars like that in their natural habitat look too plain to me, although I admit I like to make them.

More people have thought the presentation boring, but I do not find it so. It's hard to get across in a few pictures, but every car has a story, plenty of archive material (road tests, artwork advertisement etc.) can be seen, as well as some video presentations. I really enjoyed it.

As for the girls... I hope to spend some more time with Bibi soon :angel:
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I think that's one of the things that actually seeing the show makes much more of an impression, than photographs of the exhibits. I don't have the benefit of really going through the archive materials, etc. I just see that they are there - to know there is a story without being able to actually learn it, is frustrating. The experience you had while at the exhibit, taking the images, doesn't carry through to the viewer.

But that's the great thing about this art. We all see different things, and photograph accordingly. 🙂
 
Ronald,

I like shooting BOTH subjects together as much as possible!



Florida based Stage and Movie Actress/Fashion Model
Miss Tara Lightfoot and the ex - Parnelli Jones/Mario Andretti Lola T70 Spider, during the HSR vintage races at Sebring International Raceway in 2006

That Dutch Police Porsche 912 is AMAZING!

I`ve even heard about that car here in the USA, through the Porsche club I`d like a photoshoot with that car, with some 1970`s styled GoGo Girls , wearing mini skirts and boots - getting "pulled over" for speeding *meeow*

Tom
 
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LeicaTom said:
That Dutch Police Porsche 912 is AMAZING!

Tom
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Yes, we used to have 'em, but they were withdrawn because of the cost... Ok, it's taxpayers money, but still...

What I couldn't figure out though is why the exhibition model was a 912. The 912 was the 'economy' model with either Porsche's old pushrod flat four from the 356, or a tuned VW flat four.

'Real' police Porsches were aleays fast 6 cylinder 911's...

And I of course fully agree on combining the two (girls and cars) 😀 but I don't have access to old racers, only a 1971 Opel Kadett.
 
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