{"id":425,"date":"2011-08-19T17:32:41","date_gmt":"2011-08-20T00:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/?p=425"},"modified":"2011-08-19T17:32:41","modified_gmt":"2011-08-20T00:32:41","slug":"34-packard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/34-packard\/","title":{"rendered":"34 Packard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have always liked driving. I remember a summer job when I was 11 or 12 at a campsite. One of my duties was to drive the big car and trailer to the dump up the road (I think I was the only one who could back up the trailer). I got my drivers license on my 16th birthday{{1}} and spend a large part of my youth driving around the local mountain roads. This is a long way around to saying that I like cars.<\/p>\n<p>As objects of art, automobiles can be pretty remarkable. Early American cars were all about bling, before bling was a word. Chrome was everywhere, which brings us to this post. How do you make the impression of chrome translate to a photo?<\/p>\n<p>When taking the photo, you must be aware of reflections. Obviously. Chrome, like a mirror, does not have a colour of its own. What you are seeing is a (distorted) view of your environment.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 100px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"g2image_centered \" title=\"'34 Packard\" src=\"http:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/portfolio\/d\/5958-5\/14082011-8060.jpg?g2_GALLERYSID=c1af75e0536971a35f8473e17015de42\" alt=\"'34 Packard\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">with chrome emphasized<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In this image, I applied some blur and glow to the ornament to emphasize the impression of brightness.<\/p>\n<p>[[1]] In BC at the time, to get a drivers license, you had to be 16, write a fairly simple test, and pass a practical exam. Since I was living in a small town, the test basically consisted of driving around the block.[[1]]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have always liked driving. I remember a summer job when I was 11 or 12 at a campsite. One of my duties was to drive the big car and trailer to the dump up the road (I think I was the only one who could back up the trailer). I got my drivers license [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,2,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lessons","category-personal","category-photography","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}