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900hp BBC hidden in a stock looking 34 coupe.

 

Check the bird flying overhead... **clic pic**

 

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Local waterfront restaurant, still there today, with a new 1939 Willys roadster (Holden body) parked out the front

 

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Artsy photos can be anywhere, from angle shots to manipulating film back in the old days of 35mm camera film photography. Taking an Ektachrome color slide, making a B/W copy, reversing the image to create a negative (light areas are dark, vice versa, etc), then printing on a photo paper without colors was an experimental creation. Then, taking that film to separate the image for each color (3) was difficult.

Finally, transposing the three separate color negatives onto their own silk screen ready to squeegee across the screen with the color was the first step. The second was the yellow ink for the first layer. Then, the next step was aligning another screen with the first yellow layer paper and putting on the red color across the print.

The last step was to align the red/yellow print under the new blue screen negative imprint, ready for the last color. Once the blue ink was “squeegeed” across, the final print was ready. By the way, it was not a one-time process. The stack of yellow papers was tall, just to get the base color where you wanted it on the print paper. Then another stack of red/yellow papers was created and the last blue color used the stack of red/yellow papers for the final print copy.

This process was done in a college photo art class and it was one of the most fun, but intense classes during the “20 something” days. The final photo that you see of the original 8 x 10 print was pretty accurate in the colors. The original art print is still sandwiched between a couple of thick art notebook pages in an old drawing notebook. We have always lived in sunny places and one of the copies was starting to drain the colors from the intense sun rays coming into the apartment, then, house.

Jnaki

Now, 50 years later, a similar process result from a photo capture of a 16mm color drag racing film that I took in 1960. The process was about the same time frame, but a lot shorter. The three color photo art print took weeks for the final art print. A digital creation to showcase colors was done in less than 45 minutes. Art is in the eye of the beholder, a digital photo gives the basis for more creations from any photographic program on the market.

But, to tell the truth, the art process from the original color slide, to the activity in the darkroom and lab in the class, the transferring of the negatives, the screening of the colors and the final drying stage gave me more satisfaction than a 45 minute session on my computer. It is an artsy way to get a creative photograph.

 

Definitely love the V8 symbols!! I wouldn't keep your avatar in the barn.

 

No doubt about it, there is some nice art produced in the digital world, and time wise nothing beats it. That said there is something about a hands on approach, pushing a loaded brush, pulling a squeegee, adjusting F stops, the smells and eye hand coordination that is satisfying as Janaki said.