Baby Blue

[drg]

A recent addition to the Car Art Series.

Comments Welcomed!

[MB1]

Nice composition and color. You nailed the exposure and the reflections are perfectly placed. I like the element of self portrait here too.

You're good.

[Frog]

I'm with MB. Early t-bird? 56/57 I'd guess.

[Lori11]

Wow, love it, makes me want to know what the whole car looks like! Well done!

[drg]

MB1, Frog, Lori,

Thanks for looking and glad you like. This is a 1957 T-Bird.

Gary, Thanks for the good word and pleased to know you like the series. Thanks for the "Sticky" and Featured Photo ! !

Riv and Rick!

Thanks for looking and the compliments too!

[gahspidy]

Very nice. I like your Car Art series and this is a strong addition to it.

[Rivman]

Gotta love older cars, . . . they just don't make em like that anymore.
A nice addition to the CAS drg ! :thumbsup:

[starriderrick]

Nice work Chris. Love the deep reflection, great tones.Very nicely done, Congratulations on your Sticky...Well deserved.

Rick

[drg]

Nice work Chris. Love the deep reflection, great tones.Very nicely done, Congratulations on your Sticky...Well deserved.

Rick

Thanks Rick!

[GB1]

Great shot. Well deserving of the Sticky!

Suggestions - I would somehow try to avoid those light reflections (I count three of them), for they seem distracting. I can also see your reflection being neat from an artsy perspective but to me it also distracts from the subject, which is the car and it's chrome. how do you avoid the reflection I don't know -- it may require a PP edit to do anything about it.

G

[CLKunst]

Pretty sweet baby's butt you've gotten there CD! Love the lines and the colors! Bet that would be a smooth ride on the Mother Road. Congrats on the Sticky! :thumbsup:

[drg]

Pretty sweet baby's butt you've gotten there CD! Love the lines and the colors! Bet that would be a smooth ride on the Mother Road. Congrats on the Sticky! :thumbsup:

This '57 is a definite driver I'm told. The owners are part of one of the big T-bird clubs and do cruise the Mother Road frequently. I've been in and driven a 55 a lot over the years and a 56 some. But not a 57 for some reason. Working on fixing that!! This is a beaut that lent itself to some abstraction quite well. Thanks for the comments and congrats!

[drg]

Great shot. Well deserving of the Sticky!

Suggestions - I would somehow try to avoid those light reflections (I count three of them), for they seem distracting. I can also see your reflection being neat from an artsy perspective but to me it also distracts from the subject, which is the car and it's chrome. how do you avoid the reflection I don't know -- it may require a PP edit to do anything about it.

G

Thanks G.

The three solar reflections I feel add something to the photo as opposed to having hauled the car into a light booth to shoot or to have set up tents to flatten the light.

The reflection, though one of my 'signatures' in this kind of photography wasn't one that I engineered and I considered removing it. There was another photograph, slightly different angle, that I considered using. The technical quality of this one was better so I went with this image to make 'Baby Blue'. I mentioned elsewhere that I wasn't even sure at the time I first started on this that I liked it or that it would work.

Are you sure that the car and the chrome are the subject ? ! ?
Food for thought.

Thanks again for taking the time to look and comment!

[Yoyo Szeto]

Congratulations! Very impressive!
yoyo

[drg]

yoyo,

Always glad when I catch your eye. Congratulation much appreciated.

Thanks!