Up in Old Car City I enjoyed a trip down memory lane, and I found myself wanting to shoot photos of my grandfather's cars. One grandfather (my DjaDja) had a Cadillac. My other grandfather (my Pappap) like Plymouths. After previously finding the Caddies, I went searching for a few Plymouths.

This hood ornament was on a Plymouth, and it is one I never remember seeing in the 1970's. It was long gone before I could remember them. I thought the ornament was stunning, and it gave the appearance of crystal inside the chrome still perfectly smooth to the naked eye. This Puritan soldier from Plymouth still looks fierce and ready lead people to the new world!

When I took my class with Bill Fortney, Jim Begley and RC Conception both discussed ways to purify the HDR Chrome in Photoshop. For whatever reason, HDR turns a lot of chrome blue. So the way you deal with it is to brush away the blue and doing a mask operation. Now first I don't own photoshop, and if I did I've never been able to understand the language of Photoshop. So I turned to my OnOne Perfect Suite 8 and its filters. I found with a quick application of Purify Highlights, either by brush in or whole photo, I got pretty much the same effect as six actions in Photoshop.

Cheating? Yep. At least to the Photoshop experts out there. Perfect? Probably not. Can I live with it? You betcha! In the end it just goes to show you there are a lot of good tools out there, just find the one you can understand and exploit the best!

-ehw

P.S. Fujifilm X-E1 with 60mm macro.