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Challenge: Metal V (Standard Editing)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Samsung Galaxy A53 5G
Location: Bastrop, Texas (USA)
Date: Sep 20, 2025
Aperture: 1.8
ISO: 50
Shutter: 1/120
Date Uploaded: Sep 23, 2025

 They don't make 'em like they used to. Hard to believe there was ever this much steel in the chassis of a truck. This particular rust bucket is part of a curated collection of dilapidated all-steel classic vehicles in the yard of an outdoor retail plaza in a rural town near Austin.


*** After results ***

Super glad people enjoyed this image. Thanks for the comments!

Statistics
Place: 4 out of 31
Avg (all users): 6.5625
Avg (participants): 6.3684
Avg (non-participants): 6.8462
Views since voting: 130
Views during voting: 64
Votes: 32
Comments: 7
Favorites: 1 (view)

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 10/07/2025 04:59:20 AM
fits very well the challenge. congrats
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 10/06/2025 09:48:05 PM
Originally posted by glad2badad:
But why didn't you blur out the drivers door window area?


Good question. I'm not sure I have a great answer. I did have the benefit of the distressed windshield to help me in making some adjustments to obscure the background details of the building in front of the vehicle. And I do remember trying a few things with the driver-side window, but I was never quite satisfied with the result. I think the building was just too close that I couldn't find a convincing edit that didn't look "fake" in my butterfingers. In retrospect, the way I think I would have preferred to try capturing this would have been to get more distance from the subject and shoot at it with a zoom lens; that might have helped create some bokeh out that window. Of course, that might have also caused me to lose some detail in the frame of the rear window. I'm still learning a lot about DOF in these sorts of compositions! :-P
 10/06/2025 06:14:54 PM
This was one of my two 10s. Congrats on a great shot and top 5!

Message edited by author 2025-10-06 18:15:36.
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 10/06/2025 09:43:16 AM
Congratulations, This is a really nice image.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
10/05/2025 01:15:30 PM
Coming back around to comment. Yes. This is a great metal subject. But why didn't you blur out the drivers door window area?
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 09/29/2025 10:44:04 AM
Oh! I love this!
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 09/29/2025 09:22:54 AM
I would say this metal works very well in this challenge. Nice capture
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