Packard Impression

I've had this image for a while and worked with it in Photohop recently to

the current form. The image isn't cropped, but I sort of wish I had more of

the wheel and white wall so that hubcap didn't seem cutoff on the bottom --

more "centered" on the lower left corner, as it were. It is an HDR, but I

don't think it's overdone like some others that I've attempted.

If you care to comment, I welcome helpful feedback. Thank you!

Hi Scott

I love this photo. As you said this HDR is not overdone and, in my opinion, is perfect.

Light and composition are very well balanced, the number of roads/circles are incredible, giving a lot of movement to the photo (which fits well on a car).

The yellow light reflections and the trees on the rim, cut perfectly the blue dominance.

Congratulations and thanks for sharing.

José Cruz

This is a lovely photo and it is of subject matter that I myself also like to shoot.  It is tightly and nicely composed.  Among other things I like about it are the contrast of the greenery and sky in the hub cap reflection contrasted with the overall dark blue of the rest of the image.  I also like the repeating small circles: the two red ones in the hub cap and up in car's chrome in the top-center....and the two reflected circles of the white-wall of an adjacent car.

I did recognize this as an HDR image.  Maybe you could reduce the effect even more.  And the image, at least on my monitor, is a little dark overall.  Could use some brightening.  And yes, I wouldn't mind a little more room at the bottom so that the hub cap weren't clipped off, but I don't know how much more blue car-body there is, as you go lower, to the right of the hub cap.  I don't think I'd extend the photo below the bottom edge there.  Might you crop in from the right to eliminate that distracting item in the very lower right and crop the spare tire enclosure more in the manner the hub cap is cropped?

All-in-all though, this is a very pleasing photograph.  Well done.

What appears to be HDR is very nicely done. Mostly one sees it completely overdone. Not true here. This has a very light touch of it. I really like it. Love the Art Deco styling of the era.

I'm thinking I'd like to see the complete curvature of the spare at right

I don't particularly care if this is HDR or some sort of technical wizardry but I love this. When a photograph speaks as if is a tapestry of multiple stories, the viewer is the ultimate winner is experiencing it. I am having one such moment.