Shanghai Auto Show - The Models

The greatest (car) show on earth ! Unbelievably huge (up to 1km in each direction) it has become the #1 place to launch and display your new & latest cars. Not surprising considering when the rest of the world's car market was contracting China's was expanding at over 100% a year ! This year has slowed though ... only a 45% increase expected

Still, the scenes are crazy and shooting cars, models or the environment is made difficult from the sheer volume of people attending - 160,000 last Sunday (opening day) alone !

Anyway more of the cars and environment to come in other threads - this one however is for eye candy !

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#12 - This poor girl was really struggling to keep that smile on her face.




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Your candies look "yummy"...

Some eye candy indeed.

I note that there are a few soft focus shots here.
No's. 4, 9,10, 11,14,20 & 21 appear to be not so sharp? Did you PP any shots?

I'm curious as to why you didn't use the hi ISO capability of the K5.

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Best regards

Thanks Yves !

I appreciate you commenting K10D. Yes, a couple are soft - probably about 1/2 were shot at f2.8 as in all cases I was trying to get isolation, however if you got close you were jostled (I tried but it really bugged me !), stand well back (as I did in many cases - maybe 10-15m back) and it became easier to get a decent shot - if there weren't so many people between you.

This link will give you an idea of the chaos in front of the top car models ! link

I took around 500 shots that day and have culled them down to maybe 300 - still too many shots to PP extensively unless they are for actual publication (they are not) so I just used a pre-set for most of these. Not one has had any noise reduction.

Most have had just a little sharpening (eyes, mouth) as for portraits I prefer them just a little softer and not to show all the spots & pimples (guess the girls do too )

I didn't use the high ISO as all were taken with flash.

Nice job on #20 BTW !

I'm glad I can sit at home and look at your photos rather than be in that melee. As pretty as the girls are, the crowd would be a living hell to me. I have zero interest in cars as well!

K.

Yep, it was battle ! I have been twice before but this year the crowds are exceptionally large .... and fanatical !!

Some really nice candies here. And very well exposed throughout.

Thank you Terry - glad you enjoyed them !

Stunning models (I'm glad you showed us the girls rather than the cars) and very well photographed.
David

Thanks for your comments Dave - cars were great too !

Shame on you Frogfish you have nearly ruined a few of those photo's by getting bits of cars in with the pretty ladies

I have to admit that seeing the models is more interesting than the cars, whilst I will photo anything including cars, mechanical wotsits and bits of engines etc the ladies make much better set of photo's

Ha Ha - Thanks Stuey !

I do have some car shots to come when I get around to processing them, after deletions I'm still left with over 300 car shots (against 70 model shots) to go through.

Some lovely shots here. I can imagine how difficult it must have been to produce pictures of this quality.

Thank you Andrew - challenging is probably the best way to describe the conditions (as the link to the crowds above show) !