PROJECT 52, First Quarter; Taking a closer look. By Mknittle

It's missing. Post 49 had/has the chain pulley, Peterbilt plaque and it also had a chain and sprocket. Now the chain and sprocket are gone, replaced by a "Bicentario 200".....bus stop? Kiosk?

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Originally Posted by flashback

It's missing. Post 49 had/has the chain pulley, Peterbilt plaque and it also had a chain and sprocket. Now the chain and sprocket are gone, replaced by a "Bicentario 200".....bus stop? Kiosk?

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That's weird. must be the gremlins haunting the board.

I checked on the chain and sprocket this morning for a a better angle. The fender is in the way for a straight on shot.
But I did get a snapshot of the truck with the Peterbilt emblem.

http://i62.tinypic.com/30951m8.jpg

This is my dad's project. It is a early to mid 1940s Peterbilt cab mounted on a modified 1990 Dodge diesel frame. Lots of hand built parts. The frame started as a four wheel drive but now is two wheel drive with a straight front axle.
The 4X4 parts are going under my 1990 two wheel drive Dodge diesel.(a pretty common swap)

As a side note the rectangle Peterbilt emblems were the first Peterbilt emblems. they started in the late 1930s and ended around 1951 or so the 1952 trucks(most of them) got the enameled and chrome (there are a few very rare that were brass and enameled)oval that we still see today.

Going back to your first selection ... neither is being selective though the second of your second venture is better .... just going in close is not being selective as a wide shot of a mountain is taken from five miles and a wide shot of a watch from five cm etc.
Being selective on your first shot I quickly found several selective shots and outlined them ... a couple top and bottom probably had useful material outside your frame to really do them justice.

http://i61.tinypic.com/35lxhyt.jpg

I see now I have come in late on this thead and I only read the first page before posting but of my selections I think the bottom and the block have the most potential and I wonder if a telephoto shot along the block with focus adjusted over several shots combined in editing to have all in focus would not be a quite sureal shot.

Thanks John,
I will take your advice into consideration when I come back to this subject. I walk by it often on dog walks.

Like the job on the pulley and the peterbilt plaque. Nice project. We have a restored 1943 willys jeep.

Mark, it appears you have a bonanza of future shots, just in the old Peterbilt. Hope you're documenting the progress of the truck as well as this is interesting. Is your Dad turning this into a pickup truck? If so it should be unique as, so far as I know Peterbilt only built commercial rigs?

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Originally Posted by flashback

Mark, it appears you have a bonanza of future shots, just in the old Peterbilt. Hope you're documenting the progress of the truck as well as this is interesting. Is your Dad turning this into a pickup truck? If so it should be unique as, so far as I know Peterbilt only built commercial rigs?

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Jack, you are correct on both he is building a Peterbilt pick up. And Peterbilt never built a pickup truck. He is using pictures and memory to make look like the old logging trucks The fenders and some of the other parts of the loggers will be easier to make.

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Originally Posted by Bunty Plumchip

Like the job on the pulley and the peterbilt plaque. Nice project. We have a restored 1943 willys jeep.

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I am a big Willys Jeep fan. I have a 1942MB that doesn't have many original parts left :D It was just too modified(poorly)to restore . It is in pretty good shape now after thirty years of me pecking at it. :D here is a snapshot of it.

http://i58.tinypic.com/15gxfee.jpg

Brings back memories of driving around in a jeep when I was in the service, that and the Weaps (someone may remember what the weaps was). But for pure, unadulterated....power, I don't think anything beat the old Dodge Powerwagon. We used one one time to unstick a stuck D8.

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Originally Posted by flashback

Brings back memories of driving around in a jeep when I was in the service, that and the Weaps (someone may remember what the weaps was). But for pure, unadulterated....power, I don't think anything beat the old Dodge Powerwagon. We used one one time to unstick a stuck D8.

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I know where there is a restored Weap. The 1940s/1950s Powerwagons Are one of my favorite war time vehicles .One time I saw a WWII powrewagon command car going through the drive through at McDonalds. Wish I had a camera :D.

D8 is a lot of iron:D

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Originally Posted by Bunty Plumchip

Like the job on the pulley and the peterbilt plaque. Nice project. We have a restored 1943 willys jeep.

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Thanks Carolyn.:)

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Nice collection of autos in the earlier posts. Nice closeups on the hardware.

Thanks john.

Nice shots of the nuts.

Compositionally simple; so I like that. I'm not totally convinced that all the negative space in the shots is working for you; I suspect that a slightly tighter composition might work better (or on the other hand, I could be wrong).

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Originally Posted by GrumpyDiver

Nice shots of the nuts.

Compositionally simple; so I like that. I'm not totally convinced that all the negative space in the shots is working for you; I suspect that a slightly tighter composition might work better (or on the other hand, I could be wrong).

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Thanks Manfred, #s 1&2 could lose some off the top? I tried narrowing them up but it seemed to look better the way I posted them . I will try some tighter crops and see how that works.

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Originally Posted by mknittle

Thanks Manfred, #s 1&2 could lose some off the top? I tried narrowing them up but it seemed to look better the way I posted them . I will try some tighter crops and see how that works.

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Nothing quite as simple as that, Mark. I was thinking shooting them from a slightly different angle to eliminate the negative space; probably at from a different position / point of view.

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Originally Posted by mknittle

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http://i57.tinypic.com/2ezry8i.jpg
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http://i58.tinypic.com/os4ieb.jpg
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Mark, I like the first one vs the monochrome, in this case the red seems to add something to the image
For the next two images I prefer the second one, the goldish cast seems to bring out more detail, although I prefer the crop of the B&W one. To me there is a balance between the metal casting/bolt head and the white negative space. But then, not like I'm a professional or nuttin...

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Originally Posted by flashback

Mark, I like the first one vs the monochrome, in this case the red seems to add something to the image
For the next two images I prefer the second one, the goldish cast seems to bring out more detail, although I prefer the crop of the B&W one. To me there is a balance between the metal casting/bolt head and the white negative space. But then, not like I'm a professional or nuttin...

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I agree about #1 the red and it also has a very slight blue tint from the early morning sky. In the next ones the white in the background is a cloudy sky.

Oh Mark...you have just inspired me to look at tools and metals...one week this year I might go into metal stuffs. Not yet. These next three weeks is still tight to continue with P52. I'll play catch up later.

Anyway, I like your project this week...and I am with Jack in his comment. Nuts and bolts are interesting subjects to me, as long as I do not turn nuts myself, if I am not yet. :rolleyes: