Cord Dashboard

(Olympus E-3, 70-300mm at 179mm (2x crop factor), ISO 320, exposure 1/200 sec @ f/5.6)

I took this shot of a classic Cord automobile dashboard at a car show held at the Gilmore Car Musuem in Hickory Corners, Michigan The museum has a terrific collection of cars spanning the decades, and they also have some nice special events. I'm attracted to older cars, particularly those of the 30's, because they have such wonderful design elements. This dashboard to me just oozes craftsmanship and design.

This shot was taken with my 70-300 telephoto because I wanted to get a shallower DOF on the image. I converted the image to black and white, but in reality the color image isn't that much different, just a bit more color in the gauges. There was minimal post processing work, mostly curves adjustments. I posted an alternative version of this image with a square crop to Flickr. I found that this image makes a great little avatar and I also use it as my background on my Twitter page.

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