Auto Show 3/29/09

The auto show was another challenging shoot. It was very bright in the convention center, but bright lights on shiny cars make for a lot of glare. Also, the lighting on each car, even those right next to each other was surprisingly different. I had to review each shot on my LCD to see if it was too dark or too bright that it really ate up a lot of my battery. Here's my collection of shiny car shots.. I think a polarizer would've helped some.
I tried different angles, from over the car to kneeling shots..I had a really good workout..
The redness of this car looked kinda orange in this light...
The florescent lights overhead shows up as streaks on the car, especially on dark colored car...
The fancy cars were parked next to the bright window of the convention center for passerbys to see..but it made for a really bad photo op because it got really blown out.
Everyone was looking at this Audi, especially in the rear..
Because you can see the engine in the back..kinda neat, but I don't know how it'll work out when the engine gets hot.
There were really nice antique cars..ones w/ fancy hood ornaments.
It was nice of the guy at the antique auto club to let us take closer shots of all the cars. He even gave us some interesting info about the cars.
There were also a corvette club display in the upstairs exhibition area. How they got the cars up here, I really don't know.
This is a really cute original mini cooper I saw as I arrived to the auto show.. I took shots before and after the show to try to get one w/o as much glare and this is the best I could get.
The cars were all so shiny that you can even see your own reflection!!