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Still Cruisin' After All These Years
Still Cruisin' After All These Years
Tuckersmom


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Challenge: 1970s (Basic Editing III)
Camera: Pentax Optio 550
Location: Negril, Jamaica
Date: Feb 19, 2005
Galleries: Black and White, Rural
Date Uploaded: Feb 22, 2005

 I was on vacation in Jamaica when the challenge was announced. As I was walking down the road just taking some random pictures, my husband said to me "uh you better turn around and look at what's coming". I did, saw this raised my camera and snapped this shot. I got one shot, this one. Luckily nothing was coming the other way! I had taken other pictures for this challenge, but when I got home and saw this, I knew this would be the one I would enter. I think everybody I know had one of these beauties, it was my first car in '73 and I have it's much older fancier cousin now.

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03/01/2005 05:13:28 PM
I like the grainy look. If I didn't know any better I would think this was taken in the 70's.
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 02/26/2005 07:08:03 PM
I know what kind of photo you were going for, few things might help..exposure and level your photo seems a little unlevel to me. The houses seem to run up and the ground looks flat. Just my thoughts
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 02/26/2005 01:20:07 PM
A LITTLE UN-HORIZONTAL
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 02/26/2005 10:35:51 AM
Like the composition.
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 02/26/2005 09:49:54 AM
Nice documentary feel, as if actually taken in the 70's.
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 02/26/2005 07:17:51 AM
Where's your time machine?!!! This IS the 70s!! Nice job.
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 02/25/2005 10:03:04 AM
oh yeah we all are man......nothing ever dies in a bug and if it does we fix it and keep going.....

looks like a well main tained 1971 any way great shot love the grain and the aged affect could have done it any better.

GL 10
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 02/25/2005 01:49:40 AM
is it a photo of a photo?
 02/24/2005 12:58:00 PM
This is a good shot. Love the grain, very retro..maybe more 50's than 70's with the black and white..but whatever, good work (it's a bit tilted though).7
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 02/24/2005 11:12:17 AM
nice 70's look
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 02/24/2005 08:28:47 AM
the houses in the background are a little too distracting, I think all of the noise really adds a lot to the picture. The only thing I would do different is to make the car stand out more, all the other stuff around it (trees and houses) are a little distracting.
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 02/24/2005 06:30:18 AM
Nice! Love the tones and offset subject, the only "bug" I could find to shoot was a small toy one so I didn't do it. Good job
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 02/24/2005 06:22:10 AM
Nicely processed. I would like it a little more if the horizon was level and the car was a little farther into the frame. Beats the heck out of all the pictures of vinyl cover art :-) (7)
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 02/24/2005 04:40:39 AM
too grainy for me
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 02/23/2005 06:07:50 PM
not enough of the subject. 5
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 02/23/2005 12:15:42 PM
maybe it's just personal preferrence but i think the bug would have more emphasis if it was closer to the rule of thirds verticals. like about where that stop sign is.
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 02/23/2005 10:05:04 AM
Well done. I'm assuming the grain is intentional.
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 02/23/2005 09:54:46 AM
Good one. Really looks like it comes out of the seventies.
The horizon should be level though.
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 02/23/2005 08:23:36 AM
The tone (greyness) really makes this picture.
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 02/23/2005 08:13:56 AM
Looks like it was taken in the 70's. Nice job editing it.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/23/2005 04:05:36 AM
classis bug...like it but would have cropped off the right side a bit
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 02/22/2005 11:09:07 PM
Great car, love the grain.
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 02/22/2005 07:42:21 PM
I like the b/w choice here, fits the challenge as well as suits this image perfectly. Do you think that the image could have been rotated right by 1 deg? Those houses look crooked.
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