FORD PICKUP

I spotted this old Ford pickup truck in a field in Round Top Texas while shopping at an antique mart on the last day of the fall antique weekend.  I don't normally use in-camera filters but I did use the Olympus "Sepia" art filter on my OMD EM-1 for this shot and liked the results.

Texas Pipe Truck_2

Another shot from Saturdays BAPC field trip.

Texas Pipe Truck

Saturday morning the Bay Area Photo Club took a quick field trip to the sculpture field located outside of Texas Pipe on HWY 288 just south of the south 610 loop. This half-truck shot was one of my favorite shots from the trip.

Route 66 Truck

From the archives- this old truck was sitting in a field just of one of the original sections of historic Route 66 near the Texas and New Mexico border. This shot was take while on vacation a couple of years ago.

Fixxer Upper

Another old truck, this one was taken on our trip to LaJitas just outside of Big Bend National Park in West Texas last summer. We came across this truck while on a guided jeep trip up LaJitas Mountain in an area heavily mined for “quick silver” [mercury] at the turn of the last century. The old hand built stone building in the background would have been used as company store, a place where the thousands of mine workers would have been forced to trade their pay markers in for over priced goods from the mine owners. The circumstances leading to the truck winding up where it did would be anybodies guess.

Tech: Oly E-3, Zuiko 50-200 w/1.4 Converter @ 50mm, f6.3 @ 1/6400 and ISO 1250,-0.3, Aperture Priority Post Processing: Camera Raw: Crop>Clarity>Saturation>Convert to Grayscale >CS3: Duplicate Background> Levels Adjustment>Curves Adjustment Layer>Merge Visible>Mask Truck and Brighten Background w/Curves>Merge Visible>Copy Truck Mask>Add Diffuse Glow @ 57%>Add Solid Color [Black]Layer>Erase Center to Create Vignette @36%