Chevy Bel AIr 1955

[Korky]

A Chevrolet Bel Air circa 1955 - showing it's age, but still managing to display a little style!

 

Strange, but minutes after taking this photograph I knew how I wanted the finished image to look and I was already editing it in my head. That was two years ago and I finally did the edit yesterday afternoon.

 

Korky

 

 

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[annie]

nice edit korky.

 

I have loads of pictures of old cars from events, always flipping people all over the place, and reflections everywhere. I am often to be seen with my camera in the wheels, looking like something in those wonky mirrors at the fairground....

[fuzzyedges]

Well balanced Korky

To get that extra out of car images is so hard without losing the essence of a car image

By clipping the top and bottom just makes it as does the inclusion of the rear window upright

[Creativesnaps]

Good colour and I like that crop you chose.

[DaveS]

A nice take on an 'Old Classic'.

 

Dave

[ChrisLumix]

I love the picture - but I wonder how a second crop would look? The sharp point of the fin in the top left, down to the WHOLE wheel bottom right. Or if not the whole wheel, then at least the whole of the whitewall?

[NannyFerret]

I like this a lot. Nice editing.

[Korky]

Chris

 

Thanks for the cropping suggestions, I shall explore.

 

Although I posted this in the transport section, the image isn't really about the car but about the colour and the lines and the curves. That's why I cropped it (and it was only a smallish crop) the way I did.

 

Glad you like it!

 

Korky

[colinb]

someone please ban Korky for showing this motor-porn I really haven't the time to sit here drooling all night  

 

crop wish if poss I would go for all the fin and all the white wall

 

 

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[Jon]

Haha

 

Its a spot on shot, it seems to me that it manages to capture the "essence" of the time - whitewall tyre, fins and chrome - along with the iconic "Bel-Air" badge

 

Although looking at the fin and the chrome around the back light I think its a '57

 

The 55 lights were at the top of the (smaller) fin, I believe

 

(I'm a very sad man)

[Korky]

Thanks for the info, Festcu. I must be honest, 1955 was a guess on my part!

 

Korky

[ChrisLumix]

There's some classic British imitators from the early 60s that would repay being featured - I'm thinking of the very American-style Ford Zephyrs and Zodiacs, not to mention the classic Farina BMC cars like the Morris Oxford, Austin Cambridge, and the 1100.

[fuzzyedges]

There's some classic British imitators from the early 60s

 

Classic and capri (early one) ?

For paint job I always think the Austin nash was a good copy of the usa style of that time, even if the car was a little un for 1957