CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

Old Car City
White, Georgia
Oct & Nov 2018

Kodak Tri-X 400 with Red and Orange filters
EOS 1v with both lenses: EF 35mm f/1.4L USM and EF 50mm f/1.2L USM
Processing and scanning by North Coast Photography Services of Carlsbad, CA

Panchromatic B&W film records all colors of light in the same tones of grey. The light intensity (the number of photons per square inch) is what determines what shade of grey gets produced on film. Colored filters are used to produce contrast between different colored objects that reflect the same amount of light. Yellow and Orange filters yield subtle effects where the yellow filter will slightly darken a clear blue sky and will separate shades of green. A Red filter produces a very strong effect and greatly increases contrast, turning blue skys to nearly black. An Orange filter is midway between the effects of Yellow and Red.

Old Car City on Film by Paul Sager, on Flickr


At Old Car City many of the cars are mossy or half-buried in pine needles and leaf litter. Some have been lifted into the air by the trees that grew beneath them. Others have roots and branches erupting out of engine compartments, trunks, and radiator grills.

Old Car City on Film


Louis Chevrolet and ousted General Motors founder William C. Durant started the Chevrolet Motor Car Company in 1911. Durant used the Chevrolet Motor Car Company to acquire a controlling stake in General Motors with a reverse merger occurring on May 2, 1918 and propelled himself back to the GM presidency. After Durant's second ousting in 1919, Alfred Sloan, with his maxim "a car for every purse and purpose", would pick the Chevrolet brand to become the volume leader in the General Motors family, selling mainstream vehicles to compete with Henry Ford's Model T and overtaking Ford as the best-selling car in the US in 1929.

Old Car City on Film


Since Old Car City was once a junk yard, many of the cars are missing engines, transmissions, trunk lids, hoods, and other parts that could be harvested to keep another car running.

Old Car City on Film


The 50mm focal length, when used with a 35mm film or full-frame sensor, is considered to match the perspective / field of view as seen by the human eye.

Old Car City on Film


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foodie65

[quote=CHG_CANON]Old Car City
White, Georgia
Oct & Nov 2018


You've done it again!!

timcc Loc: Virginia

Great series -- and enjoyed the historical notes. Thanks for sharing.

Bfree2 Loc: Grants Pass, Or

Wow way cool

Bear2 Loc: Southeast,, MI

[quote=foodie65]

Absolutely awesome set!
Thanks for sharing.
Duane

Tom DePuy Loc: Waxhaw, N.C.

Excellent series, and story also...
I for one always enjoy viewing your work.

Country Boy Loc: Beckley, WV

I really enjoyed your series and the information that goes with them. On the other side, I really hate to see the old cars junked and left to rust away. I started to jokingly suggest it was my neighbor's yard but others from WV may think poorly of the comment!

PixelStan77 Loc: Vermont/Chicago

Great captures and tonality for film scanned images. Great job.

kpmac Loc: Ragley, La

Beautiful light and textures.

James56 Loc: Nashville, Tennessee

Great job on these Paul. Makes me want to go back to OCC.

gvarner Loc: Central Oregon Coast

That first one cropped to the upper half of the car to emphasize those two windows would look pretty creepy, but nice.

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

Thank you foodie65, Tim C, bfree2, Duane, Tom, Country Boy, PixelStan77, Ken, James, gvarner! The next time I visit OCC, I'll have to try for my own interview with the owner, Dean Lewis. I've now read and reused quotes from several interviews where the impression I have is Mr. Lewis wanted this forest full of rusted hulks to realize his own artist vision rather than Old Car City being just the leftovers of a failed junk yard.

LeeK Loc: Washington State

I continue to enjoy your pictures of these old cars. They not only speak of days gone bye, the sadness and the thereof, but they are almost like Rorschach tests, reminding me of something else.

J-SPEIGHT Loc: Akron, Ohio

Nice set Paul.

nimbushopper Loc: Tampa, FL

Great shots, but I do prefer the color ones!