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Waiting for Parts.....
Started January 9, 2010 @ 6:01pm by delbrajan
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delbrajan
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| Waiting for Parts..... | January 9, 2010 @ 6:01pm | I haven't done many composites lately, but here's one I did in 2008.
Waiting for Parts
EDIT: 1 14 09 -- Sheesh! Looks like they've deleted this photo, too! I can't figure out how that keeps happening. I have added more images to the album on Photobucket, but did not delete this one. Does adding images to Photobucket destroy the link to other images in the same album? I'll try to post it again. The IMG code appears to be exactly the same.
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Last Edit: January 14, 2010 @ 11:36am by delbrajan | |
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Wib
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| January 9, 2010 @ 8:17pm | Looks interesting, Jan. Can you tell us how you went about making this composite? I'm guessing there's a connection between the car and the speedy auto parts store in the background. 
Just read you tag line again "Waiting for Parts". Very good!
Wib - PPY
“To get something you never had, you have to do something you never did.” |
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Last Edit: January 9, 2010 @ 8:20pm by Wib | |
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delbrajan
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| January 9, 2010 @ 9:12pm | This old Willys 6 caught my eye as I was driving around a corner, and I had to get a closer look. It was parked beside an auto parts store -- a good 20 feet to the right of the store in the photo, so I thought it had some connection to the store. When I saw the tag said "1927," it struck me as funny because I wondered if it had been waiting for parts since 1927. It clearly hadn't moved for a long time, and grass was growing up around the wheels. I went into the store to get permission to photograph it, and they informed me that it wasn't theirs. It belonged to a man on the other end of the building who owned a junk yard on a hill directly behind the store (hidden from view of passers by -- and ironically adjoining a human cemetery.)
I couldn't get the idea of "waiting for parts" since 1927 out of my mind -- but I couldn't get a shot with a clear view of the 1927 tag that also included the front of the store. I thoroughly shot the car from every angle and came back later to shoot the store from a different angle. I changed the name of the store to protect the innocent, and called it "speedy auto parts" to further emphasize the irony of the idea. I combined the two images on separate layers so that the car and tag were up front and the store was "looking over its shoulder." There were no particularly complicated Photoshop techniques involved -- I just combined the two layers, tried to make the scale believable, and used masks to reveal the layer below the top layer of the car.
I assume this qualifies as a "composite," because it was created from two separate photos.
And yeah, I probably have a weird sense of humor -- but this just cracked me up.
Djan (PPY) |
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| January 9, 2010 @ 9:13pm | This is funny.
You did a good job on this. It looks "Real".
PPY
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delbrajan
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| January 14, 2010 @ 11:38am | I have attempted to re-post the image that Photobucket apparently deleted. I can't figure out why that keeps happening.
Djan (PPY) |
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Marti
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| January 14, 2010 @ 2:58pm | Hi Jan,
I've never had Photobucket delete anything of mine. Did you upload the image to Photobucket a second or third time? Each time you upload it, the location of the image on Photobucket changes and you'll have to get it's new URL address and include that in your posting here.
Hope this helps -- Marti
"Let’s lay to rest the tired old stereotype of the suffering artist. Creativity exists to sustain us, not torment us." ~ Elizabeth Gilbert
http://www.martijeffers.com/myview
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delbrajan
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| January 14, 2010 @ 3:04pm | Hi Marti - No, I didn't upload it to Photobucket a second or third time -- and it didn't disappear from Photobucket (only from my TME posts.) However, I DID upload several more images into the same PB album with the disappearing ones. Maybe each time I add an image, it bumps all the other images over to a new spot and a new URL? I'll get this figured out eventually. Thanks for your help.
Djan (PPY) |
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Flo
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| January 15, 2010 @ 8:43am | Djan I really love this! You may think that the pp work you did is elementary, but what you did is beyond my PS skills. I love how the windshield seems to reflect something - but I can't figure out whether it's the stuff behind the viewer or inside the car (the glass seems to be at an odd angle) or what! Thanks for the interesting backstory. An auto graveyard next to a human graveyard - now, match the junked cars to their former owners' headstones, and there's another story!
Flo - PPY
"May we live in peace without weeping. May our joy outline the lives we touch without ceasing. And may our love fill the world, angel wings beating." aziza
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Bug
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| January 15, 2010 @ 12:41pm | Good job on this. The idea is excellent.
I like how the headlights look like eyes. They've got that half closed look making it look like the car has been awakened by you. The rusty metal hanging under the radiator looks like a beard that has grown over the car's long wait.
Charlene
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delbrajan
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| January 15, 2010 @ 4:34pm | Thank you Flo and Charlene. Flo, I like your idea of matching the cars to headstones. The idea of the juxtaposing the graveyard with the junkyard occurred to me, but I couldn’t quite figure out how to make it work. The two lots are adjacent, but there’s a line of woods between them, so you can’t see them both at the same time or see one from the other. In fact, I had no idea there was a car junkyard at all until I walked behind the auto parts store, looked up and spotted some old junkers through a chain-link fence on a hill.
Flo – the glass/windshield IS at an odd angle. It looks like it could be adjusted with knobs on the side of the frame – and it looks like the top half of the windshield could be folded down if they wanted the wind (bugs?) in their faces.
It occurs to me that it might be interesting to post “before” photos in this composite section, so here are the two (unaltered) photos I combined to get the final product:
This was obviously one heck of a fancy sports car in its time. I think it has lots of character. It had a canvas convertible top, leather upholstery, wooden steering wheel, wooden wheels (and spokes.) I could imagine it belonging to one of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s wealthy characters in the “roaring 20s.” Here are some other unaltered shots (that I did not use in the composite) of this remarkable machine. I did no post-processing beyond CR adjustments on any of these (not even cropped) so I don't claim that any of them are good, photographically speaking.
Sadly, the Willys6 is no longer in its spot beside the store. I don’t know what happened to it, but hope that it was adopted by an antique car enthusiast and restored to its former glory.
Djan (PPY) |
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Flo
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| January 15, 2010 @ 4:52pm | Thanks, Djan, for the additional info and images - I too hope that car got itself adopted by somone who will love it back into its former glory!
Flo - PPY
"May we live in peace without weeping. May our joy outline the lives we touch without ceasing. And may our love fill the world, angel wings beating." aziza
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| January 15, 2010 @ 5:39pm | Djan,
Thanks for sharing the other images too.
PPY
Comments and criticism of all kinds are welcome and appreciated. |
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