Category / Car Shows

by russmorrisphoto

Car show peeps.

An experiment.

Pentax *ist D + Kodak Duaflex II

An experiment. TtV shots, all.

I cropped them square and cloned-in the rounded corners, where necessary.

I wanted to see if these portraits would work without the novelty of the rounded-corner TtV frame.

Interesting results. I think they work.

If I had to pick a favorite type or style of photography, I’d hafta go with portraits.

One person.

Groups.

Pairs.

Any camera.

All good as long as people are involved!

The car shows have been kinda key in my portrait taking and learning process. I like shooting cars, but there are so many cool and unique people waking around that it really is easy to find folks who’ll let me get a shot.

And I’m not shy about asking.

by russmorrisphoto

Compilation time.

Old Chevys.

I was looking through the archive for a particular grainy, black and white shot I made of a ’57 Chevy at a Goodguys car show years ago. Searching “chevy” on my old Mac brought up a ton of results.

After initially selecting around 50 shots, I whittled it down to these 27 photos made using various film and digital cameras, taken at car shows I’ve attended over the last 15-16 years.

Hope everyone’s safe and warm.

'55 hoody
Loadmaster
Engraved '53
'63 Impala
'58 Chevy
Green pickup
Wagon
Rusty truck
'31 grill
'55 hardtop
'54 Chevy Metal
'59 grill
'56 Chevy
'57 hoody
Rusted badge
'57 BelAir
'55 hoody
Camaro SS badge
'54 hoody
Grey '57
Pickup
Corvair
'56 hood
Red '57
Roughed up
Peek up
Vette
by russmorrisphoto

Fiddlin’…

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… in the digital darkroom.

I played around with one of my shots from last Sunday’s car show over in Round Rock at Centennial Plaza. This is the badge and right front-end of a silver colored Porsche 1600/356. 1956, I’m guessing.

The original photo was color, taken using the vivid setting available in the Sony RX100M3.

I use an older version of Photoshop, CS5 Extended, or Photoshop 12. I haven’t yet fully embraced Adobe’s subscription model and this rather old version still works on my trusty old 2012 Mac Mini.

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I have the free version of the NIK software bundle installed and use it often for both color and black and white edits.

I haven’t yet fully embraced their subscription model…

For this shot, I used the Silver Efex Pro 2/030 Film Noir 1 filter to make the conversion to BNW. Love the grain from this filter. There are plenty of settings to mess with, including film types, vignette, and brightness/contrast. I also removed the image border.

Next I used the Photoshop burn tool to darken up the letter “P” at the top of the badge. I was pretty much shooting into the sun at ƒ/1.8 and a it got a little blown out, but there was enough there to recover.

I like that blown-out area to the left of the badge, framed by the badge and the curve of the fender, with the trees in the background and the fender’s shadow fore.

by russmorrisphoto

A perfect day.

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Sunny skies, awesome hot rods, and friendly people.

I made it to the 18th Annual Lonestar Round Up on Friday, April 12 down at the Travis County Expo Center in Austin.

It’s a two-day event. I make a point of only attending on Friday. There are fewer people millin’ ’round than there are on Saturday, which makes it much easier to get shots of the cars without folks standing around.

Friday’s weather was perfect.

Just by pure luck, Friday’s weather was perfect.

Saturday morning there were thunderstorms blowing through this part of the state – but it all cleared up by afternoon.

Hopefully that little bit of weather didn’t deter folks from showing up on day 2. It really is a great show.

There were lots of great cars and the people watching was unbelievable. I got plenty of shots of both, here are a few examples…

Styin' couple
Styin’ couple
Seven of hearts
Seven of hearts
Black hats
Black hats
Rumble Cats
Rumble Cats
Sinister
Sinister
Golden flames
Golden flames
Baby blue '53
Baby blue ’53
Tail lights
Tail lights
Sittin' pretty
Sittin’ pretty
Slick shoebox
Slick shoebox
Flying A
Flying A
Shag and Rocco
Shag and Rocco
Window sticker
Window sticker
Rusty
Rusty
Stephanie
Stephanie
Rockin' threesome
Rockin’ threesome
V-12
V-12
Freckles
Freckles
Hangin'
Hangin’
Rusty Balls
Rusty Balls