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Challenge to you all! Car as a frame or mirror! Jim's car shot, the archetype!

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Jim Galli

Member
I like your picture so much Jim, that I'm borrowing a copy of your recent original post here to see what people have done with pictures using the car body, mirror or windows as a frame of mirror for a shot. Asher



Every now 'n again I make a sharp picture.

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lady luck​

Done several years ago with an ancient 240mm Voigtländer Heliar on 8X10. The negative is complex with reflections in reflections. Printed, the tonality dazzles. I like it just tipped to warm.

This is my high school buddy's garage. He's got better junk than me but he aint got a Heliar.

Available light. 19 sec f32 1/2
 
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Asher Kelman

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
A very impressive range of tones. That black must look really great, but how to print it?

I particularly like pictures like this where there are regions with more pictures to explore. The picture looks great on my screen. I look forward to seeing the print when I get to visit!

Good lens to have and yes it can take very sharp pictures at f32!

Asher
 
Asher Kelman

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Through car windows: what the next guy is looling at!

Hi Jim,

Your B&W picture might have been on my mind as I looked to my right while stopped at a traffic light the other day in Beverly Hills.

The guy in the car next to me was looking at a family taking pictures of their visit in this famous place for tourists to gather.

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Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Hi Jim,

The interesting thing is that one can easilly do this with film too and that's how it should be perhaps to get the extra presence film gives. What film would you suggest? I'd try to do a shot with an Eos 3 and then a 5D in quick succession.

Asher
 
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Jim Galli

Member
OK, you made me go dig out some old negs from Y2K. I had just gotten my first serious 4X5, a walnut Zone VI. I didn't really know much about stuff then but managed to eke out these negs. This was FP4 and PMK Pyro. The car is the same one as the other pictures. We were in the Sierra's up near Hope Valley off Hwy 88 out of Gardnerville NV.

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'40 Ford #1


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'40 Ford #2​

Hope some others will contribute. Since I live in the desert and have very little standing water to play with I have learned to search out reflections anywhere I can find them.
 
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Rich Beaubien

New member
Love at first sight



This is one of my favorite kinds of photo - the reflection shot. While this is from the summer of 2008 it meets the spirit of the challenge. Lately some of my reflections have gotten more complex with multiple surfaces and images. Unlike the newer ones, this is the object and a simple reflected image.
 
Asher Kelman

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Rich,

I wonder what to love the most? The bulbous back fender is the mark of the more classic version of the Chevy Belair of the mid 50's! The two folk in the reflection? Priceless!

Would you work on the rest of the reflection to bring out the trees. Also might you consider cloning out or showing completely the next person coming in the frame on the left?

Asher
 
Asher Kelman

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Nigel Allan said:
Thank heaven for spot metering!

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Nigel Allan: Preparing for the journey​
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Heaven protect the other women if she needs extra preparation! the brown leaves on the left add a sphere of interest around her that balances and finishes of the composition as if the leaves were helping in the preening and dusting powder on her face.

Asher
 
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Rich Beaubien

New member
Ha! This photo has won two first place awards, plus two awards for category, and no one ever mention that head. But let me take it out. Now that I notice it, it will bother me forever ;-D

Bringing out the trees is a bit more problematic but let me revisit that.

--Rich
 
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Mike Nogle

New member
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First time trying to comment on one photo in a thread. Hopefully it works out. I am referring to the original posted photo here. So many dimensions. The car window frames the tourists perfectly, and to me the man looking at them in the car looks like an taxi driver thinking, "come on already," and the finishing touch of the palm trees in the reflection of the window, to tell us that they are in on of the quintessentially perfect places to go on vacation, the tropics. I really like this photo.
 
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