Well… This is my first entry in a DP Challenge. I want to thank everybody that voted or placed a comment on it.
After years of getting small glimpses of the truck in the field mostly in the winter, I happened to see the farmer out mowing grass. We talked and he graciously offered to let me take pictures of anything on the farm.
As to how I did it.
At that time I had a Canon XT with a kit lens and a Sigma 70-300. So I had to use my kit lens. I shot for an hour or so from every angle but right at sunset was the best sky and Sun. That set was 8 pictures that I layered and combined. One was flash! One was with my car headlights on it from about 100 feet. Another was tinted. At that time I used Corel Photo Paint and dodged, burned, erased, add transparency and combined with no filters or HDR software.
Someone mentioned they had seen it before. Possible. I did have it on flickr and it was featured in that flickr explore thing.
It was also the June picture for the 2009 “Northeast Ohio Weather Calendar” (Still available and all proceeds go to “Coats for Kids”. Coats are pretty important if you actually live in Northeast Ohio.
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Voted earlier coming back to leave comments now. Love the composition of elements here. You have this old decaying car surrounded by this field of lush green. It shows an interesting juxtaposition rot & decay surrounded with life renewing. The setting sun is also very symbolic of the time setting on this ol and falling apart car. It's day is done. When I look upon this composition I cannot help but think of the lyrics to King Crimson's song Dig Me...it is about a rusting and abandoned ol' car. Great job in presenting all the elements in this symbolic composition of this car's 'life'.
The mixture of the sunset, the greens of the landscape and the old metal of the car work really well together. Well done and good luck for the rest of the challenge.
I really like the tie in of the red of the truck and the red orange of the sky. This is really beautiful and well composed. It has a painterly quality. I can see this as a print with an old cedar frame - would look great in a rustic lodge or cabin.
The colours are almost unbelievable, but they work. I like the pink on the truck, behind the motor place - it ties the truck to the sunset sky beautifully.
Nice contrast between nature and man. The rusty colours look great against the greenery surrounding it. The lovely sunset in the background complimemts the whole scene.
Perfect time of day to take this shot. The lighting is so soft and just adds so much to your capture. I like the crop here, glad you didn't push the truck more to the left which would open more on the right. It keeps it centered and keeps the viewer looking. The sun is a nice addition. My eye keeps bouncing back and forth from it to the truck. Your colors are great. Vivid and soft. The sky also looks amazing. 8
I prefer a squarer crop IMO. when I look at the image I keep looking at the sunset to the truck right up to the front door, then I wonder why you included all the extra area on the right which IMO does not really add to the image. 6
This looks familiar, where are you finding all the old trucks. Must live in an area that has a lot of abandon vehicles. Or do you drag around an old truck and prop it in different areas to take these nice HDR shots?
Great picture and colors nicely pop.
Really nice processing on this. The sky probably didn't need to be so deeply saturated, but I like the contrast between the dusk lighting on the car and the bright sky. I also like the variety of colors in the truck.
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