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There was a time when it was loved
There was a time when it was loved
scottwilson


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Challenge: Planes, Trains and Automobiles (Advanced Editing II)
Camera: Sony DSC-F828
Location: Kailua Kona, Hawaii
Date: Jun 10, 2004
Aperture: 3.2
ISO: 64
Shutter: 1/320
Date Uploaded: Jun 10, 2004

This is an abandoned car along a dirt road near where we live. The road is an old sugarcane railroad bed, the car had been dumped over the edge of a causeway.

I increased the saturation of the rust, to make it look more rusted, sharpened after resizing and cloned out a small bit of trash near the car.

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06/20/2004 06:06:18 PM
My immediate feeling on seeing this, is that somewhere around this subject there's a wonderful shot waiting to get out, but that this looks like the kind of thing taken to remind one of the situation, in order to go back later. The contrast of life and death, rust and green, is tempting, but this for me is too obvious, too straightforward. Get personal with it - get low daown and try and create weird landscapes across the rusted car, with the greenery forming an horizon, or a foreground, or concentrate on the strange angles around that exposed subframe ... there must be magical images here :-)

The composition is what mostly makes this look like a reminder shot: positioning of the car in frame seems arbitrary, from centre bottom to mid centre top - it doesn't lead me anywhere, doesn't point up the contrast of metal and plants. 5
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06/16/2004 07:18:06 PM
Isn't it weird how you can find cars in different areas and no one ever picks them up.
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06/14/2004 05:39:32 AM
Nice shot of a car in "used" condition. Cool idea...
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06/14/2004 03:45:26 AM
Wow they left behind the paltinum!


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