a '56 Chevy at the Henry Ford Museum

[Dennis Bishop]

A 1938 Dodge truck and a gas station, too. . . This is a composite image necessitated (I thought) because of a huge museum display stand beside the truck. The car was photographed in another part of the museum under an old McDonald's sign -- the sign some of us can remember that proclaims in lights how many million hamburgers had been sold and that they cost 15 cents.

ISO 500, f/22, zoom lens at 17mm for the car and 20mm for the gas station and truck
Both were nine exposure HDRs at 1 EV intervals.

Processing

• Photomatix to combine the exposures and achieve good histograms
• white balance correction -- in Adobe Camera Raw for the station; on the Photoshop layer for the car
• Topaz Simplify -- preset based on BuzSim but with less saturation and simplification (Many small reflections were eliminated.)
• The headlights were turned on with yellow ellipses; the clearance lights of the truck were turned on with a masked curves (lighter) layer.
• headlight beams via masked Curves layer with elevated lightening
• Filter>Render>Lighting spotlight from lower right on car and truck
• Fractalius
• additional black detail lines with Alien Skin Snap Art -- Stylize, Line Art

[Cheryl Slechta]

Dennis, this is nicely conceived and executed as all of your images are. I like the filtering and I will probably be in the minority but I think I'd like it better if the car was inside the picture and there was no matting. Well done. That looks like a fantastic place to visit

[Dennis Bishop]

. . . I will probably be in the minority but I think I'd like it better if the car was inside the picture and there was no matting. . . . That looks like a fantastic place to visit

I've been doing the colored border thing quite a bit, lately. Thanks for you opinion on that and the car being in front of it. I'll be interested in what others think. The car being outside the rest of the image happened pretty much by accident. The photo I took of it included everything from bumper to bumper. When I extended the canvas to make the border, more of the car was revealed. I considered fixing that, but I've always liked things being a bit out of bounds, so I decided to go with it. Actually, it required more work than keeping it inside the border would've been.

Henry Ford Museum and the associated Greenfield Village are quite incredible. Back in the olden days, when I used to travel to the Detroit area on business, I'd sometimes have time before a return flight to visit the museum or village. I decided I'd become a member if I ever lived here. At this point, I've been here for almost 28 years without a membership, but I'm signing up the next time I'm there -- probably very soon.

[denise ippolito]

Dennis, You did a great job combining the filters and the images! The LRC with the bumper out of bounds (which BTW is my favorite part) is fantastic. I think it's creative and gives the image a little something extra. You did a great job with the lighting too. Well done!

[Mark Fuge]

Nice image and application, Denise.

Interesting presentation.

[Dennis Bishop]

Nice image and application, Denise. . . .

Denise and I are often on the same page about things, but we pretty much always spell our names a bit differently.

[denise ippolito]

[Andrew McLachlan]

Hi Dennis, I think you did a fantastic job on this one...I wouldn't change a thing!