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lincoln corner

            Assignment: PCA56 – Corners
Deadline: February 22, 2009
Image tag: pca56
From: dmenges2003

Mission: This two week PCA can be interpreted literally or very abstractly.

The corner of your living room or the corner of your mind; the corner of your credit card or the corner of your eye; the corner store or your corner of the world. As you can see, the possibilities are limitless and therein lies the challenge. If it's a literal corner your after, then that will probably be obvious in your image, but if you really want a challenge, then you will have to be very creative to get us to "see" the corner you're trying to convey. You've got 2 weeks to figure it out. Good luck and don't get "trapped in a corner!" Somehow I think this is just the assignment for ::primer::

WIT: This is the front passenger corner of a 1959 (I think - correct me if I'm wrong) Lincoln Premier 4. There were only 4200 of these ever made and they were (are) an exclusive ride.

I got low and wide and wanted to emphasize the corner (I like low, wide, 3/4 shots of cars anyway - it adds a certain je ne sais quoi to a car pic). But with boxy cars like this it especially emphasizes the corner.

 I was kind of wishing I'd brought the 10-17 instead of the 17-35 for even more rectilinear wide-angle distortion, but the 17-35 makes a better all-around lens when I have no idea what I'm going to be taking a shot of)

I also had a couple tighter cropped shots, but I ended up liking this because the whole car is there, but the emphasis falls on the corner anyway. Processed kind of vintage, because that seemed like the way to go...

EDIT: A Couple technical notes: As Jeff inquires this is a two-shot bracket - kind of HDRed in PS CS3 with a selective contrast bump - the histogram looks like it has hair :) I used the min aperture that I could to get a little bit of blur to the background, thus the high shutter speed (the EXIF is from the dark exposure) - I, as usual, didn't check the ISO and just assumed it was set to 200 (oops!). Also, I had a cheapo CPL on the lens which is adding some of the color to the sky and clouds.

This poor car is abandoned along side the road close to the Toledo Airport and is an advertisement of sorts for the classic/antique car junkyard there in the background.

More Edit: Hey hey, look at that, all those tech notes and it makes it into explore - Feb22 #66

More More Edit: Lighting wise, the sun was setting a little over my left shoulder illuminating the passenger side and a little of the front of the car.

Taken in: United States / Ohio / Toledo Express Airport (show map)

Taken on: February 22, 2009

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Camera: Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XT, f/5.0, 1/4000 sec, 17mm, ISO 400 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XT
Aperture:	f/5.0
Exposure Time:	1/4000 sec
Focal Length:	17mm
ISO:	400
Exposure Bias:	-5/3 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Aperture-priority AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto bracket
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Adobe Photoshop CS3 Windows
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