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Hot Wheels
Nick Exposed
May 21, 2012
Automotive, Canon EOS Rebel t1i, Daily Photo, HDR, Street

ISO100 25mm f/8 2sec

Given this months community project theme is Long Exposures, I figured Id edit another photo from this weekends “car show”.

When it comes to late night lengthy exposures I tend to lean towards the HDR side, so that I have the flexibility of bringing in as much detail as I feel necessary. Once again I went with an over processed car for this image, different from what I usually do, being when I originally seen this car I immediately thought of the Hot Wheels cars I had as a kid, and wanted to bring the look and feel of that childhood memory out in this pic.

I decided in this instance I would leave a bit of the effect from the long shutter to emphasize the exposure time, for example the ghosted person in the background as well as the light streaks off to the left. If I would have thought of it at the time, I would have liked to capture a scene with some people making their way around the car admiring its beauty.

I always love playing with these late night hdr photos, they can be a good amount of fun to see come together. Its incredible how much detail can be captured due to the lengthy exposures.

I look forward to continuing to dive into the subject of Long Exposures with all of you who are joining in on this months Collab Fun!!

http://nickexposed.com/hot-wheels/

There’s no doubt that customizing cars – whether something as simple as a belt line stripe, or as complex as metalwork – is an art form. And like any medium, automotive art has its patrons. Also, like most art forms, automotive artists have been known to be – to put it judiciously – eclectic on the whole. That being said, I’m more interested in which one you think is the most gifted when it comes to their art, not who you’d least like to have set up camp next door.

One of those whose reputation has been immortalized long after his passing is Kenny Howard, alternately known as Joe Lunch Box, or to the vast majority of hipsters born after his 1992 death, as Von Dutch. Actually scratch that, most of the people wearing Von Dutch clothes probably have no clue who Howard was, or could pick out his flaming eye or pinstriped rabbit from a lineup.

They’d be even less familiar with Dean Jeffries, George Barris or Ed (Big-Copy) Roth. But they hell with them, they’re also not likely to be here reading this, and those of you who are know not only that bunch of car customizers but probably a hundred more who have taken horse hair to fender or have formed fabulousness out of fiberglass. Of all those automotive artists, which one do you think was the world’s greatest?

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Source: http://hooniverse.com/2012/04/02/hooniverse-asks-who-is-the-worlds-greatest-automotive-artist/?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed