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Green Buick

I would have painted this if those tires weren't in the way.

I couldn't manuever to get a better shot without the tires because I was shooting through chain-link.

Why am I always shooting through chain-link? So many of these great cars are behind fences. I suppose that's necessary, otherwise people would just start helping themselves to the chrome, plastic and so on.

Sure makes it tough to get a good shot sometimes, though.

By mmrtnt at 10/07/2009 - 21:34
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Picacho Motel

I don't get a chance to take that many sign shots and I'd wanted one of the Picacho Motel for years. Finally got it last spring.

It took me a long time to get the hang of a digital camera. After years of shooting b&w film and developing and printing my own shots (four of the paintings in the "Recent Paintings" sidebar are from b&w 35mm rollfilm), I finally got a digital camera in 2005.

I had to remember so many things that I didn't with film - like to just leave the damn resolution at full pixels and to cut the ASA down when shooting in bright light, how to fool the camera into focusing on what you want it to, how to fool the camera into metering a shot for what you want to highlight - on and on...

Anyway, this shot is back from before I just set the adjustment to max pixels and "pulled off the knob", so the resolution is low.

Shot right about here.