Roll of film 006 – Classic car photography

This will be a short one with a bit of classic car photography. Yesterday I took the good old trusty motorcycle for a ride in the the more fair autumn temperatures of late. I have had the knowledge of a classic car meet happening every Saturday for quite some while, but due to the pandemic and me slightly forgetting about it I have actually never been there on a Saturday.

This Saturday changed that. At least somewhat. I got there – but a bit late.

I do think that somehow played into my hands from a photography standpoint. Cars may have left, but with them a lot of people also left, which means that the cars that were left I could photograph more “isolated”. That can be very difficult when dealing with big car meets stacked with people and cars parked close together.

Jaguar E-type

First of all the location is brilliant. It is an “old” gas station designed by the famous designer Arne Jacobsen (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skovshoved_Petrol_Station). When there are not too many people around it just acts as the perfect background. The first image here is of a Jaguar E-type roadster. It is shot wide open at F0.95 and I really like it even thought it may not be clinically sharp.

Ferrari and Jaguar

This on did not turn out as great as I had wanted. I think it is an “okay” image, but it just does not do anything special to me. It could have been great – it is two great classic cars parked with their distinctive rears towards each other. But I did not pull it off well enough here.

The first one of the Porsche 356 here is probably my favourite from the day. Even though I also like the first E-type one. But there is just something a little extra special about this one with the 356. I do really love that car as the previous post also shows (Roll of film 005 – Porsche 356) but with this one, the grain structure, the colouring, the framing of the gentlemen in the background through the windscreen. I just really like it. This is what makes classic car photography enjoyable. I really enjoyed opening this up when I got home afterwards.

The second one is “okay” as “fill” or transition, but not good enough to stand on its own in my opinion.

Alfa Romeo

The last one here I think I got a little bit “too clever”. There was two matching Alfa Romeo’s parked next to each other and I wanted to try and capture the second one in the first ones side mirror.

An Alfa connoisseur might be able to recognise what I did, but if you are not more than normally well-versed in old Alfas then the picture just falls flat in my opinion.