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Another image of the 1958 Pontiac Strato Chief that I shot last week. I'd tell you that I'm going to post a full colour edit of this car but the truth is that I don't think that I will.

There's something about this car that makes me FEEL like I need to share the way I see it. In my mind's eye it's like a faded memory of good times, road trips and heart-pounding nights behind the wheel with a first love on the way to the drive-in movies. Sepia tones, charcoal pencil sketches and black and white renditions of the things that I shoot seem to best convey the look that I see when I imagine my subjects.

Since this is the case and I obviously have a problem with reality and all the saturation of colour that exists there, I'm sorry to say that the Strato Chief will just have to be shared with all of you the way that I see her. No matter for me though as I still see how beautiful the turn of her curves are and I can see the fire of youth and the yearning for adventure hiding within....

This image is a real hodge-podge of effort. The photo was shot with my Canon EOS Digital Rebel XS. The first conversion to HDR as a .tif file was made with Photomatix 4.0 and then I ran the resulting file through Luminance on my Linux box and, hold on to your hats, folks - then I did the final touching up on my Picnik account.

How's that for goofy? My favourite computer and the one that I usually would do all of my editing on with Luminance and GIMP in an Ubuntu environment is dead like doornails so I'm bouncing from desktop to desktop and looking for crazy answers to what are likely very silly questions. In the end though it all worked out and I'm happy so that's what counts, right?

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Thanks for all the comments, thoughts and faves!

Description
Another image of the 1958 Pontiac Strato Chief that I shot last week. I'd tell you that I'm going to post a full colour edit of this car but the truth is that I don't think that I will.

There's something about this car that makes me FEEL like I need to share the way I see it. In my mind's eye it's like a faded memory of good times, road trips and heart-pounding nights behind the wheel with a first love on the way to the drive-in movies. Sepia tones, charcoal pencil sketches and black and white renditions of the things that I shoot seem to best convey the look that I see when I imagine my subjects.

Since this is the case and I obviously have a problem with reality and all the saturation of colour that exists there, I'm sorry to say that the Strato Chief will just have to be shared with all of you the way that I see her. No matter for me though as I still see how beautiful the turn of her curves are and I can see the fire of youth and the yearning for adventure hiding within....

This image is a real hodge-podge of effort. The photo was shot with my Canon EOS Digital Rebel XS. The first conversion to HDR as a .tif file was made with Photomatix 4.0 and then I ran the resulting file through Luminance on my Linux box and, hold on to your hats, folks - then I did the final touching up on my Picnik account.

How's that for goofy? My favourite computer and the one that I usually would do all of my editing on with Luminance and GIMP in an Ubuntu environment is dead like doornails so I'm bouncing from desktop to desktop and looking for crazy answers to what are likely very silly questions. In the end though it all worked out and I'm happy so that's what counts, right?

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Thanks for all the comments, thoughts and faves!