Car Photo of the Day: Just another trick of the light.

There is another photo of this scene where the bonnet it is focus, but the reflection and background are not. I captured both views as it is one of those universal things in life to shift focus from near to far objects, especially with reflections. This is the normal way the human eye and brain work together. I always love how old movies would use a “rack focus” shot like this to draw the eye to different parts of the scene. This, not the annoying as hell ‘shakey cam’ so overused in today’s movies and television, is how our eyes work. It is far more REAL than the shakey view, unless of course the viewer is suffering from Parkinson’s Disease or something. (I’ve missed out on a lot of TV of late because I can not stand to watch the shakey style for more than a few minutes. Not because it makes me ill, it just pisses me off because it is trying way too damn hard to be “auteur”… knock it off already and just tell me the damn story! But I digress.)

This is of course an Aston Martin, for which I have a well-documented bonnet obsession. This particular one being a Zagato Bodied DB5, which was parked alongside a hotel in Red Lodge, Montana for the GTTSR. If I recall it dropped out after the first day, but I may be wrong. I just remember shooting it any more after that first day of the first GTTSR I ran.