Forgot half the field?

**Redfireshaker06** · 03-27-2015, 11:05 AM

Any pictures of more cars? Its like the show field was so big that half of it got forgotten. None of the cars around me made any of the pics. Even the twin red/white cars behind me I haven't seen in any photos yet. Just curious

**FUNX650** · 03-27-2015, 01:04 PM

Originally Posted by Redfireshaker06

Any pictures of more cars? Its like the show field was so big that half of it got forgotten. None of the cars around me made any of the pics. Even the twin red/white cars behind me I haven't seen in any photos yet. Just curious

Originally Posted by Redfireshaker06

I'm gonna keep my opinions to myself on everything.....

You sound a little miffed.
Care to share why?

Bob

**custmsprty** · 03-27-2015, 11:47 PM

Originally Posted by FUNX725

You sound a little miffed.
Care to share why?

Bob

HEHEHEHEHEHE, Bob that's hilarious, actually it's classic. And I was there. Just curious, why didn't the op take and post any pictures?

Yeah and as he said in a later post it was hot. Hey, I've lived in Florida since 1982 and it was HOT! Especially for this early in the spring. 90 degrees out. So that's pretty much why I didn't take many pics either. Luckily my daughter did, but I've already posted those.

**ronkh57** · 03-27-2015, 01:48 PM

Guess that nobody took pics of his car ??

Originally Posted by Redfireshaker06

Of all the love I got in person for my 2015. Not one single picture of it

**Redfireshaker06** · 03-27-2015, 06:18 PM

No. I was around a lot of nice cars. And no photos. Just asking.

**Redfireshaker06** · 03-27-2015, 06:23 PM

Has nothing to do with my car Ron. I didn't get a chance to go around because I was already sick and walking in the heat wasn't helping. Hence why I asked where the rest of the car pics were

**SANTA3013** · 03-27-2015, 08:11 PM

This was my first time to attend Detail Fest and it was great! I have a greater appreciation for AG and the hard working staff. There were hundreds of cars there and there is no way anyone could get pictures of ALL the cars that were there. Here are a few I took. Hope this helps.

**cardaddy** · 03-27-2015, 11:35 PM

Not being there, and reading about 500+ cars I was thinking this will make for some killer gallery somewhere. I mean even if they are not in a thread, they *could* all be loaded into a public access gallery.

I don't really see why taking 2~3~5 photos of each vehicle, (or each section of 2~3 vehicles) would have been terribly impossible in 2 days. I've been known to take hundreds of photos of hundreds of vehicles in just a few hours. Shouldn't have been that hard imho. One camera in a few hours could have done the whole lot. Could have less photos of guys standing around looking at product, (and each other) and more of vehicles standing around looking jus' fine.

**custmsprty** · 03-27-2015, 11:56 PM

Originally Posted by cardaddy

Not being there, and reading about 500+ cars I was thinking this will make for some killer gallery somewhere. I mean even if they are not in a thread, they *could* all be loaded into a public access gallery.

I don't really see why taking 2~3~5 photos of each vehicle, (or each section of 2~3 vehicles) would have been terribly impossible in 2 days. I've been known to take hundreds of photos of hundreds of vehicles in just a few hours. Shouldn't have been that hard imho. One camera in a few hours could have done the whole lot. Could have less photos of guys standing around looking at product, (and each other) and more of vehicles standing around looking jus' fine.

With all due respect it was 90ish degrees out and hot as heck for March and it would've taken a long time to take just one QUALITY picture each of all those cars, and most of them started leaving on Saturday at 2pm so you don't have all day. But I'll throw this out there, if you promise to take QUALITY pictures of each car as you posted above both days next year and upload all those photos I'll put $200.00 towards your plane ticket and you cover the rest of your expenses. And I'll even buy you dinner Saturday night. I've been wanting to meet and party with you any way. Sound like a good plan?

**cardaddy** · 03-28-2015, 05:10 PM

Originally Posted by custmsprty

With all due respect it was 90ish degrees out and hot as heck for March and it would've taken a long time to take just one QUALITY picture each of all those cars, and most of them started leaving on Saturday at 2pm so you don't have all day. But I'll throw this out there, if you promise to take QUALITY pictures of each car as you posted above both days next year and upload all those photos I'll put $200.00 towards your plane ticket and you cover the rest of your expenses. And I'll even buy you dinner Saturday night. I've been wanting to meet and party with you any way. Sound like a good plan?

I'll agree, 90's in March is quite warm. Then again... I've stood in lines in Tampa and/or Orlando at theme parks when it was 98° in the shade for hours on end with whining kids, and hundreds of sweaty dripping folks that didn't speak English for hours on end, (and didn't die from it).

That's quite an offer there brother.

Thinking that if my back were to allow it, it'd surely be worth taking you up on it.

The caveat within however is the definition of what a "QUALITY" picture is. IMHO it's impossible to take a quality photo of a vehicle sitting out in direct overhead sun, just isn't going to happen.

What I would think that might mean would be no phone photos. Say using something like a DSLR with either a fast medium prime lens or a zoom lens. That should be enough to fill the bill for a "quality" photo.

I've put on (as well as been in) a number of shows and the logistics that go into them are insane at times. Kudos to the entire staff of Palm Beach Motoring Group for pulling this off every year.

The idea of a 'quality photo' within that environment is perplexing to say the least.
That being said... walking along a line of vehicles in a car show atmosphere it's quite possible to take shots that'd include 2~3 vehicles with each shot, shooting whilst coming and going, (say three shots angled ahead and three shots angled behind) getting multiple shots of each vehicle in the process. Basically stand in front of a vehicle and shoot the one next to it, and the one next to that. The rotate towards the right until you've covered several angles of 2~3 vehicles there to your right (or left). Take 5 steps forward and do it all again. One could actually stand directly in front of a given vehicle and shoot it 'head on' as well as to the left, and to the right. Then move to the next vehicle and do the same thing. There is no right or wrong way, just fighting with the overhead sunlight trying to avoid glare and washing out the subject.

For a 2-day show, it's sad to think that most left literally before the afternoon of day 1. Sounds more like a "cruise in" or "cars and coffee". Those are darned hard to get to all the cars if you really intend to capture them all. The evenings of multiple day shows are the most fun!

I would say though that if all the vehicles were lined up EARLY ON DAY ONE that it'd still be possible to get at least a few shots of all the rows in 2~3 hours. That of course won't work if they don't get lined up till 11:00 and leave at 2:00. At the least, start with the rows that are filled, one trip down, shooting at 10/12/2 when facing the vehicles you can cover a row fairly quickly. Next row, 10/12/2, and that'd at least get you the obligatory shots. Anything that wanted/needed more in-depth would have to be there after all the field had been taken in.

It'd of course be a lot easier if two were doing the shooting, but it's not impossible to cover in a morning. The biggest time waste would be stopping to upload all the cards to a laptop.

Given that it was in the 90's I'd hope that the lure of spending time doing an upload at an air conditioned seat at a table wouldn't be so strong as to keep one there till sunset.

I went on a school trip with my daughter, her senior year in high school. It was one of those EF Educational Tours with her German class and we did 12 days in Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein and Switzerland going like mad. I shot over a 1000 shots a day, culling them out when I could, but generally just putting cards in a portable drive and uploading them 'as is'. By the time it was all said and done, (after coming home and culling through them) I had *KEPT* over 5800 shots, over 2600 of them were good enough to print (meaning in whole or cropping out a decent shot). Never did print them all, not made of money.

(Although I do have a wide carriage 8-color photo printer.)

Tell ya' what though.... as next years DF starts to come around, (should my back feel like making the trip) I'll call you up on it. Nothing better than a trip to good ol' sunny southern Florida with warm weather when it's freezing everywhere else, especially when someone else is footing the bill.

CarMomma has been wanting to come down, and I'd just as soon drive as fly. That first $200 would pay the gas for sure.