1967 Oldsmobile convertible. I can't think of anything else to say because I find it hard to visualize this otherwise nice car.
Those of you who have seen my photos for awhile know I never get too artsy-fartsy with my car photos. I like to photograph cars as I see them in real life, on the ground. That's what I know and love, that's how I remember them when they were new (back when we had to fight off the dinosaurs to keep them from stomping the cars at the dragstrip). To me, an Oldsmobile in this position and attitude usually indicates that a horrible accident is about to happen. But every once in awhile someone tells me I need to try some different photo angles.
So I tried something different. I don't like it.
Funny - others do it and it's somehow OK, that's their choice of how to take the photo and I'm good with it. But when I do it, it makes me unhappy. It ruins the perspective of the car for me, because that's not how I see cars. I guess being an old curmudgeon is settling in on me. So much for artsy-fartsy in May 2010 when this photo was taken at the Salute to American Graffiti show.
I remember now why I took it this way - the cars were parked closely together and my normal photo angles would have blocked this car so I futzed around to get just this car in the photo. But I still don't like it.
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Please let you sit down because my comment is long and deep.
I think that when you take a pic of a car, before to shot, you fall in love with the car you have in front of you so, at the shooting moment, you like to have a pic respectful of that car.
If you have this in your mind, my answer is: how can you like a pic of a car that it seems it's having an accident ... you're shooting something that doesn't reproduce your feeling in that moment (".. that's not how I see cars") ... it's the same if you take a pic of a cutie pie and you put some blood on its body.
I feel all of this because your pic's are always shiny (shiny = good feeling), pure, no other is relevant around the cars.
I think you feel the same as a young boy who looks to the girlfriend, its eyes are only for her and nothing else.
I'm sorry if I'm boring you ... but at the end I'd like to say my opinion too.
Today I've a stiff neck, so I can't rotate my head to appreciate completely this car. To solve this little problem I need to rotate my computer ... is this normal for you?
Other photographers take photos of cars at odd angles and it doesn't bother me. That is their art and I have selected some of them as my favorites. But their art is not my art and not how I want to represent my girlfriend, a car or any other photographic subject.
When I take a photo and post it here, I post what I like. I am very pleased and thankful that others also like them and favorite them. I like to see old cars as if I were there looking at the car, and that is how I will continue. You will not have to rotate your computer or get a stiff neck looking at my photos! Maybe your wife can give your neck a nice relaxing massage?
About the massage, so my stiff neck has just gone away reading now that you will continue with "normal angle" pic.
About your comment, I'm glad you understood my comment, I'm glad we share the same feeling and the same approach about this kind of pic's (you as the artist and me as the viewer, by the way) ... great !!!