Silver Ghost
Nikon D7000 10-24mm @ 17mm ISO 800 3-bkts f/16 Lr3, HEP1; PsCS5
Another classic Chevrolet at the Pasadena Police Department Classic Car Show, June 19, 2011. A reminder of how inspirational art objects of the past can be for artists of the present.
Vintage Chevy Low Rider
Car Show Fortnight
Nikon D7000 17-135mm @ 31mm ISO 640 3-bkts @ f/22 Lr3, HEP1, TpzSmp; PsCS5
This silver bullet of a circa 1950 Chevrolet is one of my favorite automotive images to date. The car itself if a fairly straight forward HDR image, I did take some liberty and tinted the windows in post processing. I also added an underpainting effect to the foreground and background using Topaz Labs’ Simplify plug-in in Photoshop. This is the kind of image that keeps me going, wanting to capture more and more automotive frames.
Tree Dormant In Winter; An Exercise In Black & While
Nikon D80 10-24mm @ 10mm ISO 320 3-bkts f/22 Lr3 HDR Efex 1 SEP 1
The tree with its branches bare of leaves during its season of dormancy presides over Waring Park in Piru, California, hard by the usually dry Santa Clara River bed. I am surmising that the dark clumps of vegetation among the branches are nests for some of the local critters, but we did not see any while on the scene. Whether avians or small mammals or marsupials, the creatures that made their homes up in the branches did so to stay safe from predators who might be roaming the neighborhood.
We were in the area to photograph an old railroad trestle, and I did capture those brackets before I set my sights on this tree. I actually think the tree was the better overall image. After the initial HDR processing and merging of the brackets with Nik HDR Efex Pro I processed the final image with Nik Silver Efex Pro, and did a little dodging with the adjustment brush in Lightroom. I have pre-ordered a copy of Silver Efex Pro 2 and am waiting to get my hands on that, which appears to be even more robust than Silver Exfex Pro 1.
