{"id":2167,"date":"2009-08-15T05:50:21","date_gmt":"2009-08-15T12:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/?p=2167"},"modified":"2009-09-01T08:06:42","modified_gmt":"2009-09-01T15:06:42","slug":"monterey-historics-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2009\/08\/15\/monterey-historics-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Monterey Historics &#8211; 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>A splendid day!<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The height of any gear head&#8217;s year has to be the paddock for the Historic car races at Laguna Seca in mid-August.<\/p>\n<p>This year I went with my technique perfected and confidence high. I had my backdrop rolled up on a long PVC pipe and was thoroughly comfortable with the use of <a href=http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2008\/09\/06\/helicon-focus\/ target=_blank>Helicon Focus<\/a> to confer massive depth of field where there otherwise is none.  Gear was my standard close-up outfit.  Canon 5D, Canon 100mm EF Macro, a ring flash and a monopod.  While a tripod is best when stitching of multiple images is called for, I already had enough to carry, so made do with just a monopod and a QR plate on the ball and socket head.  It seems to have worked out well.  Willing &#8211; if somewhat surprised &#8211; bystanders were put to work holding the backdrop, where needed, and all in all it was a ton of fun.  Aperture was f\/5.6 throughout, the Macro&#8217;s sweet spot, with ISO set at 250 &#8211; grainless with the 5D&#8217;s outstanding full frame sensor.<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog\/Historics09_04.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\"\/><br \/>\n<i>1911 10.5 litre Cottin &#8211; Des Gouttes &#8211; composite of 4 images<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog\/Historics09_01.jpg\" width=\"533\" height=\"800\"\/><br \/>\n<i>1927 6.5 litre Bentley &#8211; 3 images<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog\/Historics09_02.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\"\/><br \/>\n<i>1935 4.2 litre Railton &#8211; 6 images<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog\/Historics09_03.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\"\/><br \/>\n<i>1958 1.6 litre Porsche Speedster &#8211; 6 images<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog\/Historics09_05.jpg\" width=\"533\" height=\"800\"\/><br \/>\n<i>1958 Ferrari 4.1 litre 335 Sport &#8211; 3 images<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Clearing out last year&#8217;s snaps from the garage a few months back, a friend asked for the one of the MG bonnet as he knew the owner. Imagine then my surprise, as I was making my way through the paddock, to see my picture next to the car portrayed &#8211; Jim Weissenborn&#8217;s 1959 Byers-Special MGA &#8211; one of the prettiest cars there.<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog\/Weissenborn.jpg\" width=\"427\" height=\"640\"\/><br \/>\n<i>Fame at last &#8211; Jim displays my snap from the 2008 meet<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the original:<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog\/MG.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\"\/><br \/>\n<i>MG special. 5D, 100mm macro, ringflash.<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A splendid day! The height of any gear head&#8217;s year has to be the paddock for the Historic car races at Laguna Seca in mid-August. This year I went with my technique perfected and confidence high. I had my backdrop rolled up on a long PVC pipe and was thoroughly comfortable with the use of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2009\/08\/15\/monterey-historics-2009\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monterey Historics &#8211; 2009<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photographs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2167"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2185,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2167\/revisions\/2185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}