{"id":3238,"date":"2016-10-06T18:03:24","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T16:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3238"},"modified":"2016-10-06T18:53:18","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T16:53:18","slug":"the-paris-motor-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/3238\/","title":{"rendered":"The Paris Motor Show"},"content":{"rendered":"

I can’t say I’m a huge fan of cars, but I like them enough. \u00a0So when I heard the Paris Motor Show was on this week, I thought I’d take a day off work, stump up 16 Euros for a ticket, and go along and take a look. \u00a0I also thought it would be a good opportunity to practice taking photos indoors, which I’ve not done much of.<\/p>\n

As things turned out I was a bit disappointed. \u00a0Firstly, there was a huge emphasis on electric cars which I think are complete waste of time as I explained here<\/a>. \u00a0Although some of the BMW electric cars undoubtedly look nice. \u00a0Secondly, the cars that were not exotic you could see in a showroom and the cars that were you couldn’t get near. \u00a0The high-end Porsches, BMWs, Audis, and Ferraris were cordoned off and you needed to persuade a bloke in a suit to let you close to them. \u00a0In other words, I found going to the motor show to be a bit like paying to go to a car showroom and then asking permission to look at the cars. \u00a0When I grumbled about this to a colleague over WhatsApp he said “Sounds like a typical motor show, mate!”<\/em> \u00a0So it’s probably going to be my first and last. \u00a0I think you have to be really into cars to go, and whereas I’d maybe like to sit in a few Porsches I’m not prepared to fight my way through a crowd to do so.<\/p>\n

Regarding the photography, I kind of lost interest due to the number of people and the subject matter which I discovered I wasn’t really into: if I want a photo of a Porsche 911 I can find professional quality ones on the Porsche website. \u00a0So I don’t think these photos are much good and I’ll not put them on Flickr, but I’ll post some of them here. \u00a0For anyone that’s\u00a0interested, there is more than enough lighting on most of the cars that you don’t need a flash, let alone an external one. \u00a0Push the ISO up into the low hundreds and you’ll be fine. \u00a0And bring a wide-angle lens, I shot with a 17-40mm on a full-frame camera. \u00a0The pre-set white balance options are rubbish on my camera for indoor work, and so I set it manually.<\/p>\n

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This being France, somebody had set up a full-on seafood restaurant.<\/p>\n

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I tried to look at the Teslas, but they were hidden behind a forest of people. \u00a0I tried for several minutes and I still couldn’t tell you now what one of them looked like.<\/p>\n

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Finally, who the hell would buy a brown<\/em> Ferrari?!<\/p>\n

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