Vicariously, With Camera

I never had much chance to own a rod, though I did have a few musclecars early along the way. At least now I get to see and drool on cars of all sorts nearly every weekend spring through fall. I do photographs and artwork, and for some reason my area has a pretty strong base of rods and 50's-60's cars. I have yet to meet an owner who isn't happy to talk about his work (or the work he had others do), car history, earlier cars, etc. But I don't often have much time "in the field" because I need to burn film within a limited time. I saw this website and of course wanted to get my work out there blah-blah, but I also like to be reminded of what-all's involved with building the hardware and keeping it rolling. My range of vehicle interests is fairly wide, but I see hot rods as one of the toughest to do well. Also up there has to be the difficulty of restoring a less popular make.

Doug

Doug,

Welcome to the forum. You'll find some very talented and knowledgeable folks here. Hopefully you will meet some of your vicarious needs

Pat

Welcome to CHR Doug. I have often wished I could do the art thing and put some of my ideas in sketches rather than try to explain them to people. I can't draw stick people using a straight edge !!! How about posting some of your work on here, lots of us would like to see it, I'm sure.

Dave,
Thanks! My artwork always starts with a photo, so it's fleshed out on a PC rather than pencil and paper. Although I have a big graphics tablet that works well, I can't start from scratch with it because it would look warpy! So we're pretty much in the same boat. But nothing improves like practice, so keep going!

From what I've read on other forum sites, I can't post artwork etc without losing my rights to it there. (The people running whatever forum obtain rights to use the posts in whatever way they like.) I will look more at local posting here in the meantime. Regardless, you will get a much better idea anyway just by heading over to http://www.artmechanica.com and looking for Production Images. You might like the rod or the '57 Bel Air best, I suspect.

Keep doodling!

Neat stuff, Doug. You have some very nice work there. Congrats

Well Doug some of us could prolly use help with our camera and such questions, at least I could.

Ives,
Honest, I'm far from an expert at camera tech and use, but fire away - I'll be happy to fake it. I use old-style full manual hardware and an old Nikon digital now and then. This stuff and why I use it are described in more detail in the "Technicals" page on my site, but that might put you to sleep. Just ask here

Doug