Today, at the end of my commute, I stopped in town and wandered the streets for 20 minutes or so looking for stuff to photograph. I happened upon this cool looking, but rain dirty 1953 Buick Roadmaster. The surrounding scene wasn’t so great, but the look of the car (especially the front end) got me snapping. Once home, I loaded the images into Photoshop, picked the shot I liked the best and proceeded to do my usual Nik Silver Efex Pro tweak. While clicking through the Nik presets I chose “solarized” (an effect I usually ignore) and BINGO! I don’t tend to go “cartoony” with my photo manipulation, but the strong solarizing effect worked magic on the image.

For reference, here’s the image straight from the camera.

Lens: Canon EF-S 15-85mm at 22mm. 1/160 second at f/11, ISO 200.

Canon T2i catching a ride.