Category: OldCars

Day 19 – Studebaker Interior

Studebaker

I wanted to have a little more practice with the Edge 35 so I headed over to Jacksonville this morning to see what I could do with it. I had some interesting results with old building but then my eye landed on a bullet nose Studebaker from the 1950s parked on Main street with a for sale sign on it. As is frequently the case when photographing old cars the shiny chrome picked up the reflection of the photographer and I didn’t notice it until I got home. The red upholstery was reflecting light all around the cabin. I got the slice of focus right where I wanted it on the steering column and through the dash. The windows were quite blown out so I added a couple of textures to tone them down a little. Still on the fence about taking this optic to France. But I haven’t talked myself out of it yet.

Old Car, Bodie, California

OldCar

I had a fun morning shooting the old cars and buildings in Bodie, California, a ghost town I have wanted to visit for some time. I’ve seen this car in my pictures of Bodie so I was on the lookout for it. Shot with the Canon M3 and an 18-150mm zoom. I was shooting most of the interiors with my Lensbaby Trio28 because it came with a polarizing filter which made it easier to shoot through the windows. You can see more of my Bodie shots on my travel blog at http://jeannehoadley.com/Travel. Enjoy.

Red Chevy Cuba

redchevyI started working with my Cuba pictures again this week. I decided it was such a special trip it need a scrapbook all it’s own. And I had to leave a lot out to keep it down to 12 pages in my 2016 book. So This is one of the photos I loved but the colors of the woman’s clothing and the buildings were distracting so I decided to do a selective black and white.

In Photoshop, just go to Select, color range, and use the eyedropper to select the color you want and use the fuzziness slider to make sure you get all of that color. Then hit control J to make a copy of the color selection. Now you can apply a black and white layer to the main photo and let the color layer sit on top. In this case, there was some red on one of the building so I had to do a selection on the building the apply another black and white adjustment layer to that selection. Yep, it’s really that simple.

Hood Ornament

Hood_ornament

I’m not sure if this is the original hood ornament that went with this car. I noticed in Cuba that hood ornaments were often not consistent with the vintage of the car and in some cases old hood ornaments were mounted on top of the original. For example I saw one jaguar on top of a 1950s chevy with an airplane ornament. In any case, I think we should bring back the hood ornament, they just add such panache to the cars. In this case the gold painted host car and it’s orange neighbor offered up a palette that could only be found in Cuba.

Not much post processing required. Some de-noising and sharpening and maybe a little vibrance and saturation.