Overcoming The Backgrounds

As I've written previously, I love car shows, but they are a difficult place to make car photos. From any angle, the background will be a distracting mess of other cars and people. So I've long made it a practice when at car shows to concentrate on the details that make these vehicles special.

This particular hot rod had a custom paint job that I thought was the eye-catcher of the show. I decided to photograph it as an abstract of colors and shapes. These two photos were my favorites of this car. (Click on photos to enlarge.)