Bowling Green Sonic Drive-In
by Kris Rasmusson
Title
Bowling Green Sonic Drive-In
Artist
Kris Rasmusson
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
My most popular photograph is Munfordville Sonic Drive-In. It gets more hits than all the rest of my photographs combined and also earned me the highest award I�ve ever won. But it�s not the only really cool Sonic Drive-In to be found in Kentucky. NOOOO�There�s another one in Bowling Green, the home of the Corvette. As with the Munfordville Sonic Drive-In I arrived one evening just after a rain storm had blessed the parking lot with a wondrous mirror finish. The best angle had me positioned in a triangular parking lot island with view camera perched above a shrub with tripod legs kissing the prickly base of the unfortunate plant. It wasn�t easy to find the best blend of focal plane tilt and swing to get both the row of menu pendant boards and flaming pavement into focus. I was glad I had both a Beattie Intenscreen and fresnel lens on my reflex housing ground glass. Even with the optimum focal plane orientation I knew the shot required a tiny aperture of at least F22. Reala 100, my film of choice, gives me nano resolution and great exposure latitude, but I have to keep my TTL meter close to the recommended ISO 100 setting which results in the tiny aperture having to pair with a long exposure, the problem compounded by the nettlesome reciprocity factor that occurs in low light situations. Thus the shutter was set on �B� as I counted out 16 seconds to an inner concert of Bach�s Minuet in G major. I then bracketed up and down a stop, knowing that my first exposure was probably spot-on but that my psyche demanded I cover all the bases. When the film was developed and scanned and I beheld the image on a Photoshop screen, I quickly worked my way through the toolbox and soon had the retro venue optimized to show the fun and beauty of its garish glamour.
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February 12th, 2011
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