Tooling Along

Posted on Nov.08, 2011, under Greenfield Village

(Nikon D700, Nikon 16mm Fisheye, ISO 200, Exposure 1/8000 @ f/2.8)

With fall in the air and lacking something new to post I thought I would post this shot I took last year at Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Michigan. Greenfield Village was created by Henry Ford, so it’s not surprising that the Model T and other old Ford automobiles should be prominently displayed. The museum offers rides in some of the older cars. This visit occurred in mid November on a wonderful Indian summer day. It was getting later in the day and the streets of the village were becoming empty. The less crowded village streets became a nice background to the old Ford automobiles that were still tooling around the village that day.

Processing the image was fairly straight-forward. I wanted to emphasize the car and add a bit of vintage feeling to the shot so I added a fairly strong vignette. I also liked the way the vignette worked with curvature of the image created by the fisheye lens. I used the Shadow/Highlight layer in Photoshop to bring back some details in the sky. The rest of the changes were done in Lightroom and involved mostly adjusting the blacks and adding a bit of fill light in spots.

Please feel free to leave comments and feedback below.

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5 Comments

A.Barlow says:

November 9, 2011 at 10:34 am

I like what you did with the vignette.

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Mark Summerfield says:

November 9, 2011 at 1:43 pm

I agree that the vignette works perfectly with the curvature from the fisheye lens. I also think that you choice of lens and the vignette are perfect for the effect of a early 20th century print, so appropriate for this subject.
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Adam Allegro says:

November 10, 2011 at 3:06 am

That vignette looks awesome with this shot. Almost like a glimpse in to a dream. Oh man, how cool would it be to own one of those!! Great post!!
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Journey Photographic says:

November 14, 2011 at 7:19 am

Looks like a very relaxing way of getting around 🙂
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bob towery says:

November 30, 2011 at 4:42 pm

I’m going to go against the grain here and say the vignette is a bit too strong. No problem with how deep it comes in, just would like it to feather more so I can still see through it. Fun image though!
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