Better late than never I always say. This time I have pics for you from the 8/1/10 Cars In The Park show at Boardman Park in Boardman, OH. This was a show I had heard about, but never attended before, and turns out it was quite good with a lot of beautiful cars, many of which I had never seen before. The best thing was that there was a nice mix of classic, antique, modern, muscle, hotrod, ratrod, import, domestic, and on and on. It made for a wide variety of vehicles to enjoy seeing over the afternoon, which sometimes is rare in other shows I’ve shot.

For this show, I did something a bit different, namely that I shot it with my vintage ’72 Canon Canonet QL17-GIII camera. This is a smallish compact 35mm rangefinder film camera that is fairly common and has a very sharp, fast 40mm f1.7 lens. I did this also with the New Castle Downtown Cruise Night on 7/2/10, but used a ’63 Konica for that one instead. The main reason for this is I’ve had an itch to shoot vintage cars with vintage cameras for a genuine “authentic” period look to the photos that digital just doesn’t deliver. The resulting photos get scanned, some minor adjustments, keyworded, then saved the same as any other digital image I’d normally take. I don’t touch the color or try to PP them into something far from the original negatives as I like the out-of-camera feel. It’s also a simpler kind of shooting for shows – no fill flash, no polarizer, no heavy bag to lug around, so it’s fairly pure and as you can see, it has a definite look. If you grew up with these kind of cameras it might not seem too special, but I like it and it’s something I intend to explore further for the fun of it.

To view the full gallery, click here. Some of my faves are below for your quick enjoyment. G’night!