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March 8, 2010

Car Photo of the Day: Stalking Big Cats at Night.

Filed under: Car Photo Of The Day — chuck goolsbee @ 2:32 pm

Digital cameras seem to have the ability to shoot just a bit better in low light than film cameras ever did. (Leica excepted of course!) With flexible and higher ISOs available in the film days, you can generally get shots on chip that would have been fruitless on film. My old Olympus camera was pretty darn good in low light, with a fairly fast f1.8 lens. It is what I used to shoot this image.

This was shot at an informal Jaguar owners’ get together in San Francisco a few years back. Several E-types were parked in a row, and after the dinner was over, as guys were standing around chatting, I wandered about taking photos. Grabbed a few good ones, but this is one of my favorites of the bunch. Car spotters can shout out the differences between each car.

My new camera’s fastest lens is f3.5, which isn’t going to cut it for me long term. This is why I’m looking around for a fast lens at the moment. I have an amazing “photo assignment” coming up that will require a lot of night shooting. (More news on that as it develops… pardon the pun!)

March 6, 2010

Car Photo of the Day: It’s Red … and Weird.

Filed under: Car Photo Of The Day — chuck goolsbee @ 8:19 am

When topless this car is truly elegant in appearance (though apparently not in performance), and in an odd bit of connectivity I owe my very existence to this car. However, much like the Jaguar XK 120, when fitted with a hard top or in Coupe form it is as if Venus herself has been transformed into a hunchback.

Can you name the car?

March 4, 2010

Car Photo of the Day: Where’s my cloning tool?

Filed under: Car Photo Of The Day — chuck goolsbee @ 9:50 pm

And I’m not talking about the car! To me this is just such a nice shot. Taken at the NW Classic Rally a few years back. The classic BMW Coupe and the Port Gamble water towers look great. The dumpster and crane in the background? Not so much. In cases like these I usually reach for the cloning tool in Photoshop and start removing such minor eyesores from my backgrounds. Not today though, too busy. Sorry!

February 28, 2010

Photo: E-type Tach

Filed under: Cars, Photography — chuck goolsbee @ 10:42 am

Speaking of photography… Here is a shot I just snapped off with the G1, right here on my desk. This is raw, and unedited, exported out of Aperture 3, just to show how nice this camera & lens combo is (14-45, at 45mm here, manual focus.)

The tach is out of the 65E for a refurb and upgrade. It has been inaccurate for a while and that will be fixed soon. It took me several hours of work to get the bezel removed!

February 26, 2010

Lunchtime Friday Video

Filed under: Cars — chuck goolsbee @ 11:36 am

They always say that there is no replacement for displacement, but apparently skill and daring occasionally beat brute force. Watch to the end.

Head’s Up to reader Doug Martin who found this video on YouTube.

February 24, 2010

Car Photo of the Day: Name the car, from the engine

Filed under: Car Photo Of The Day — chuck goolsbee @ 11:57 am

I really like this photo. I snapped it at the Art Center Car Show last summer in Pasadena, California. However, unless you are an aficionado of the marque, I imagine you would not be able to name the car. So I shot a photo of its engine bay and perhaps with these two hints you guys can name that car:

I have a bunch of shots taken from the Art Center show of some amazing, rare, and historic vehicles which I should start showing here. Stay tuned.

February 21, 2010

Car Photo of the Day: Blue Skies, Blue Car, Open Road

Filed under: Car Photo Of The Day — chuck goolsbee @ 1:34 pm

The weather is unseasonably beautiful here in the Pacific Northwest right now, as any of you watching the “Winter” Olympics must know. Sunny and warm is not what you think of first when somebody say “February” around here. Meanwhile the old Jaguar sits out in the barn and I haven’t even begun my “winter projects list” and it seems Spring has sprung!

Maybe this photo will get my motivation up to get started on the list. What do you think?

Oh yeah… Can you name the car in the photo?

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