Excellent Car Show

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The El Paso Corvette Club put on an excellent car show at Mission Chevrolet.
I was pleasantly surprised by the number and variety of cars on display. For the first image I chose a highly modified and absolutely gorgeous Corvette.

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The crop tool in Photoshop is the most important tool for me. I love to bore into the most essential part of an image.

I love car shows because of the many opportunities to just go wild with crops, color, composition and lens. I generally only use two lenses for this kind of photography. My main gun is the Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8. This lens will not autofocus with the Nikon D5000 and other small Nikons but that has never slowed me down or stopped me. Focusing an ultrawide lens is a breeze. The D5000 really shines at car shows because of the articulated LCD screen. Its incredible how easy it is to compose pictures under very difficult conditions.

Color is a critical factor in car shows and many other kinds of photography. I am never shy on how much I enhance color. Car shows beg for color! I photographed this car at 13mm, f/8, 1/1000 with ISO 200 and aperture priority.

Car shows means engines. Don't be afraid to bore into the hood and show that engine. Use fill flash for this kind of shooting and bracket.

This engine had everything. Color galore, chrome, and excellent form. Engines are so cool! I shot this at 13mm. f/8 1/60th at ISO 200.

Tons of chrome! I love tons of chrome!

This was shot at 11mm, f/11 1/25th aperture priority with ISO 200

Don't forget the small but beautiful details.

I photographed this beautiful Corvette logo at 16mm, f/9, 1/2000th ISO 200 aperture priority

In my view they should still be using this gorgeous logo.

Don't forget to photograph the entire car! This is another job the Tokina does so well. As you know, cars are parked close together making it difficult to shoot the entire car.

I photographed this beauty at 13mm, f/4, 1/4000th at ISO 200. 

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