Them who read the previous post about the Johnston City Classic Car Show<<click might remember the photo of the mural.
Seeing as this post is all about the details (close-ups), I figured I’d open with a closeup of that mural photo. Rather, of the hydrant in front of the mural. Since I didn’t snap a closeup of the hydrant (my bad!) I cropped the hydrant out of the full-size photo and then enlarged it 4X using Photo AI. And there it is.
The rest of the close-ups — all snapped with the Samsung S23 Ultra — are all about the cars.
I’ll identify the car when I remember, but I might forget (or don’t know) a few. We’ll see.
As a reminder, I’d preferred to have had my Sigma 17-50mm f/2.8 lens with me and used the D7500, but the phone didn’t do a bad job considering the difficult shooting conditions.
Not as many words in this post, so let’s get to it.
Oops! . . . one more thing. I didn’t take close-ups of all the cars (my bad, again!), so if it’s not here, I didn’t snap it.
An idea of what car prices were like in the 1970s . . .
(the reflection of the pavement is changing the color; it should be dark green)
If I had to pick a favorite vehicle from the show, it’s this next one . . .
I liked the front grill, but because of poor lighting and glare, the photo wasn’t all that good . . . so I played with it a bit.
And here we are, the last one.
Again, the phone did well.
Note that most of these photos needed a fair amount of cleaning up because there were many spots, dust, scratches, and imperfections on the finish of many cars (not the phone’s fault). I used a combination of spot repairs, copy and clone, noise reduction, and magic to get the images as clean as possible.
Anyway, here is the randomized slideshow of the above photos:
Here’s the LINK<<click to the SmugMug Gallery.
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There are some really fine shots here, E. They’ve given me some encouragement to utilize my own phone more. These shots are all well-exposed and well-framed.
Question: is the slideshow a WordPress function or is there some other magic that I am unaware? I’d like to incorporate it in some posts like you have instead of the Gallery that WordPress offers.
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The slideshow has nothing to do with WordPress. It’s a SmugMug option for sharing the gallery.
WordPress has a Slideshow Block, but it’s just a gallery showing images one at a time instead of all at once. Depending on your plan, some plugins might be available, but I think they are only for the higher-cost plans.
I like doing those slideshows because they adjust to show the photos as large as possible on the browser window, even if set to full-screen, limited, of course, by the size of the original photo.
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I just made a slideshow in a WordPress post (just a draft) and it’s not very nice. I could see how it might be useful with some applications but I like the Gallery better. Your SmugMug slideshows are outstanding.
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I agree, and I also think that SmugMug’s embedded images look better than those uploaded to the WordPress library.
WordPress messes with the images you upload, and — to my eyes — they never look quite as good as the originals, probably due to their compression algorithm (although they never copped to it).
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After I post I sometimes look at the photos and ask myself why I posted that photo because it doesn’t look like anything I edited.
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That was an ongoing issue between me and WP support. On and off for years, I would ask why the images didn’t look the same once posted as they did on my PC. Initially, I was told the best quality was to upload the same size as the width of the blog. That didn’t help, so for a while, I would overprocess the photos to compensate for the “dulling”.
That’s when I started linking the images to their SmugMug equivalent. Meaning, I would upload a photo to WP, post it, but then link to the version on SmugMug.
Eventually, when I started running out of storage space, I started embedding the images directly from SmugMug, and now they look great (or, at least, the same as I processed them).
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These photos are so interesting…so much fun to look at…they are so artistic and cool!
The 1960 Ford F-100 has great character and I imagine GREAT stories to tell!
(((HUGS))) 🙂
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Thank you, Carolyn.
What’s weird about looking at these cars is that they seem both familiar because most were around when I came to the US, and I drove similar ones, and also alien because they are so different from anything made in the last 30 years.
That said, even as I admire the aesthetics of them, I have no desire to own any of them.
Except, maybe, one of these . . .
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A great choice to own!
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