1956 FORD Thunderbird by odie
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This was taken a few summers ago with my old manual Canon AT-1 and a roll of black & white film. I am proud of this since I took the film to the darkroom and made it an 8x10. I've had the image in my files at work and decided try-out the postwork in Photoshop 7, which really feels like an antique! (I'd rather try-out the car, actually.)
I'm pretty sure this is the make and model that I've written in the title. Let me know if you think differently. It's missing some of the chrome work on the grill but still in great shape.
Happy Tuesday and back to work for me, now. "sigh"
Jodie
Comments (26)
Janiss
Splendid car and this postwork is sublim... a great capture Jodie!
virginiese
Nice capture ! I like the b&w presentation that suits pretty well with this car ! Hugs Virginie
mickuk50
what a beauty of a car i would`nt mind a spin in this myself .this shot is well suited to b/w as it gives more feel to the era .excellent composition and a fantastic image jodie :o) mick
tizjezzme
Sweet car :) We got our son his first car - $100 .. a t-bird -- '96 though. Looks like this one never hit a mailbox yet though. LOL nice shot Jodie :)
krakosky
Very good car and excellent treatment of B/W, i like this wheels, Freewheel burning!!!(lol)
beachzz
This is such a classic car, and you've done well with the old foto and your postwork!!
magnus073
Real classic, I've only seen one in person and that was just to sit in it.
TwoPynts
A real beauty. Looks vintage but for the newer cars in the backgrounds. Great work -- vroom, vroom!
vlaaitje
wow, a real beauty a golden oldy, my son likes old timers as well
GiMi53
the color tone is just perfect for this ancestor car ! Excellent picture, Jodie ! Warm hugs for fat Tuesday !
duncanlong
The days when a car was a marvel of steel and mechanical parts instead of plastic and electronics. Ah, it isn't easy being an old timer some days... Seriously,excellent work and a nice old-time look to the photo that's in keeping with the subject.
camilledubuc
great capture.
fredster66
Very nice. Perfect selection with the tone here... :-)
ledwolorz
Fantastic car and capture.
MrsLubner
In 1957 they rolled out a really cool Thunderbird and my family was good friends with the guy who owned the Ford dealership in Cleveland. That guy got all this great promotional stuff and shared some of it with us including a great big, red canvass Thunderbird kite. One of the first "object" shaped kites around (we say the diamond shaped ones and the box kites but shapes were new). My uncle had a lovely Cabin Cruiser on Lake Erie and one day I took my Thunderbird kite on board with us and flew it off the boat. We had every boater on the lake swarming us and even the local water patrol checked it out. Ford got a lot of publicity that day and I got a lot of fun out of their release of the new Thunderbird. :-) Fabulous shot!
goodoleboy
Excellent POV employed in this capture of the nostalgic beauty, Jodie! I didn't know your were a classic car devotee.
lizzibell
great capture...
delaorden_ojeda
wonderful nostalgic shot, excelent postwork, beautiful !
timtripp
great photo of a great car.
auntietk
Excellent photograph! Congratulations!
kimariehere
wow you even did the darkroom thing !! goshhh i have never before tried that !! what a great classic car ( always wanted a 50's car ! )
busi2ness
Ha, a car from the period I was still young and handsome, lol! You did well considering the tone and POV.
toddaking
55,56 and 57 were the three years they made the small T-bird roadster, I believe. There is a shop around the corner from my office that does nothing but restores these cars and only in those years. Nice capture. Todd
DukeNukem2005
Very beautiful and very nice photo!
billcody
We here in Europe do not exactly know, what kind of car it is - but it looks great and powerful, too.... Look at all these modern new and "normal" cars in the background: Boring, they all look as the others, but this one: A personality! I wish I could take a ride and hear the engine`s sound.... WROUMMM! Thanks for sharing this with us! Great shot, great darkroom work and great postwork
mayuan
I have so much to catch up on in your gallery, but I chose this tonight because it was so different from your others. The comments above see it all! And, I know I mentioned this somewhere, but do you know the photographers of the FSA, from the Depression? (Farm Security Administration.) If you don't, you can access them at the Library of Congress Online---some of their shots were among the most profound of rural America in existence. Anyway, you conjure their ghosts every so often; and you sure did here! The softened focus, almost velvetine in full size (amazing what metal looks like when an artist plays with its colors); toning it up/down so that the car appears almost plastic; and the kind of composition that puts your subject straight forward---though it's really complex, underneath: The car is angled so has a whole range-of-flow across the surface; the window frames a couple of background cars; etc. There's always this other level going on in your work, behind the main "characters"; you compose musically, with counterpoint. Well, Marion Post Wolcott, Walker Evans, etc., etc.---they'd ask you to join them for dinner. (So Margaret Bourke-White, Bernice Abbot---there are a bunch of photographers I think you are kin with. If you don't know them, rush to your nearest website!) A lovely, plastic and luminous shot. Happy Easter!