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yankeedog — Buick Cuntury II
Published: 2009-09-10 17:46:19 +0000 UTC; Views: 1598; Favourites: 28; Downloads: 0
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Another view of the 1954 Buick Century I posted earlier.Related content
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This picture is amazing! It seems like in 3D, how did you do this?
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Thanks! I start by drawing a very tight clipping path around the car and then copy and past the car onto a new layer, next I duplicate base layer and gaussian blur that layer. Then I take the eraser tool, increase the brush size to the maximum size and erase the foreground of the blurred layer allowing the base layer to show through in focus. Other than some color correcting and saturation adjustments, that's basically it. I do most of my car photos like this because when shooting at car shows people are always walking into shots, so I blur them and the seem less intrusive and don't take away from the subject of the photo, the car. In this shot there are uninteresting vehicles in the background. They call this the "bokeh effect", it can be achieve with the camera on some subjects, but whole cars are too big.
-YD
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Wonderful shot and treatment. That car has amazing proportions. Wouldn't need much tweaking to make a cool rod. You may have given me an idea for a project. Oh no
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Thanks Keron! They were cool cars. I always wanted a '55-57 2 door Buick, any model, but preferably the Roadmaster! Sort of like the Rat Rod 57 Belair idea I had? That would be too cool!
-YD
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Wow! That is pretty! Thanks for the link!
-YD
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no problem,everytime i see one it reminds me of my Dad's 54,which is sadly resting at its home since the owner died months ago.if i had the money i would buy his car.miss you,Dad.
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Maybe you could work out some sort of payment plan to buy it back? It would be a shame to see someone else get it.
-YD
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i'd love to buy it but alas,i don't have a job.and it looks like they're going through it.
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That's too bad. 
-YD
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here's an update of the Buick we're selling: the asking price is 10,000 dollars.
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I wish I had the money, I love those old Buicks.
-YD
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dunno the price yet,i'm estimating about 7,500 or so.
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Looks like right out of the game: Fallout 3
But I'm sure, it has no nuclear engine
Does this car drive again?
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With all the mud caked all over the front end, I'm guessing it was submerged in water, there an overall film on the car. The shop that has the car does restoration work so I hope to get some after shots of it someday.
-YD
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I hope so too, and I wish you luck for this.
It's the same look, like this 57 Plymouth Fury, which was buried about 50years ago, to dig it out in the future...you know what I mean?
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it looks a model car sitting a blured photo. Great job of clipping that out. It realy makes the car stand out and pop. If I owned her I would leave it as is as. Just take the hose to it the give it a light oil down.Mmmm.... maybe swap out the frame and put in a modern suspension. I'm thinking air bags to give it the lead sled kind of look when its parked and while the frame is out of her might as well swap in a new engine and tranny. 350ci/turbo400 combo would be good enough, after all you can't go fast as rust is the only thing holding the body together
Ahhh hell can any one say RESTOMOD????
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Thanks, it does have that feel. Keeping it like that, but in good running order would make it unique.
-YD
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How did you manage to get the car into focus?
Do you know if this car is for sale?
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I drew a clipping path on the car itself, copied and pasted it onto it's own layer. Then I duplicated the background and blurred it with gaussian blur, copied that layer and pasted it into another document, but in grayscale, then copied that and pasted it back into the original photo, multiplied it over the background and lowered the opacity some till it looked right to me. It sort of gives the look of tiltshift photography.
-YD
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I take it this was done in Photoshop? I've recently picked up using the path tool. It was all thanks to the book, "Commercial Photoshop with Bert Monroy".
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Yes, Photoshop CS2. That looks like an excellent book! Bert Monroy is top notch! Have you seen any of his work?
So much of my time is spent drawing clipping paths for work, every Heinz product or concept shot has to have a clipping path drawn around it to drop out the background, so I'm pretty skilled at drawing them.
-YD
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I like to think I'm pretty skilled with Photoshop, myself. I think I have seen some examples of Bert Monroy's work.
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Oh, I didn't say I was pretty skilled at using Photoshop, just at drawing clipping paths. Photoshop is so complex, I think I'll always be a bit of a novice, but I'm always learning new stuff and it's fun to experiment. 
-YD
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Thanks for the link.
Mind you, I could learn to get to grips with Adobe Illustrator, myself. Apparently, vector files take up less space than normal PSD/JPEG files.
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You're welcome, he does some pretty cool stuff.
Adobe Illustrator is a different animal than Photoshop. I feel I'm a little more of an expert with Illustrator, but they keep changing things and adding new functions. Some of the new functions like blur and transparency... add to file size, but if you keep it basic, the files sizes in AI are much smaller than PS files, but it's really apples and oranges, AI is vector base and PS is pixel based.
-YD
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So when you say "apples and oranges", you mean that no programme is better than the other?
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No, no they are both great programs, they just have different purposes.
-YD
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She looks rough but salvageable.
P.S. How did you make the photo it looks great.
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She's in good hands.
I drew a clipping path on the car itself, copied and pasted it onto it's own layer. Then I duplicated the background and blurred it with gaussian blur, copied that layer and pasted it into another document, but in grayscale, then copied that and pasted it back into the original photo, multiplied it over the background and lowered the opacity some till it looked right to me. On the car layer, I adjusted the saturation a little bit. I think that's pretty much it.
-YD
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oh wow a real "bondo bomber" I haven't seen one of those in a long time.
great shot!
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Thanks! Yeah, there's a lot of mud on her.
-YD
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