Ugly Tour Bus Photoblogging: Left

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Ugly Tour Bus Photoblogging: Right

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Ugly Tour Bus Photoblogging: Blue Protrusion

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Ugly Tour Bus Drawing: French Mutation

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This is another case where I saw a bus I wanted to photograph but was unable to get close enough to it. Luckily, the detail I wanted was easy to recreate.

Still unable to decide if I should add some fake shadows or reflections to it.

Ugly Tour Bus Photoblogging: What Are You Looking At (#2)

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Ugly Tour Bus Photoblogging: What Are You Looking At (#1)

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Ugly Tour Bus Photoblogging: White Stripe

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Ugly Tour Bus Photoblogging: I'm So Green

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Ugly Tour Bus Photoblogging: Shadow

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Ugly Tour Bus Photoblogging: Foul Ball

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Ugly Tour Bus Photoblogging 2015!

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It's a new season!

Ugly Tour Bus Photoblogging/Real Food: Cheese Puffs

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Ugly Tour Bus Photoblogging: Pool Party

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Ugly Tour Bus Photoblogging: Severe Balance

 

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After yesterday's hideous Rococo entry, I thought I'd better return to austere minimalism and balance. Ahhh, that feels better.

Ugly Tour Bus Photoblogging: Hyperphotogenic

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Here's what's fun/frustrating about being a digital photography specialist during the infancy of the medium: people know enough to be able to use digital photographs easily... and badly. People know a little bit of the terminology, but they don't understand it. "What size image do you need?" I ask. "300dpi," they respond, which is like saying Los Angeles is 60mph away from San Francisco.

In this case, I'm sure the designer, who is not really a designer, thought, "This looks great on my monitor, therefore it will look just as great blown up massively on the side of a bus." The result, of course, is a symphony of bad compression and jpeg artifacts which, to me, contrasts beautifully with a GOOD digital image (mine, in this case) of the panel surface, divide and reflector. Here's another view of the same photogenic trainwreck:

Ugly Tour Bus Photoblogging: Orange and Brown

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The color scheme on this bus reminded me of the polyester uniform my sister wore when she worked at Whataburger in the 70s.

Ugly Tour Bus Photoblogging: Accidental Horizontal

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Ugly Tour Bus Photoblogging: Datco

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UPDATE Semi-corrected graphic version (also click for bigger):

Ugly Tour Bus Photoblogging: Semper Fidelis

 

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Ugly Tour Bus Photoblogging: Red Diagonals

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