some pics from last night
Racer
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From: Austin TX
The first is your best. Nice angle to car, simple background. The second shot though, that line in the wall, that gutter pipe. Be very picky when you take a picture, where you park a car, what is in the background. While the car is obviously the star of the shot you don't want a background to detract from your subject. Either move that car so those things aren't in the shot (preferred) or edit them out in post-production (last resort). The last shot, the loading-dock thing is a hit-or-miss. I don't mind the dock so much, but not the garbage can, or whatever that big blue thing is.
You have pleasing angles on the car, now just to put more effort into the little details.
You have pleasing angles on the car, now just to put more effort into the little details.
Last edited by bjurasz; Jun 8, 2009 at 10:07 AM.
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Drifting
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From: owasso oklahoma
The first is your best. Nice angle to car, simple background. The second shot though, that line in the wall, that gutter pipe. Be very picky when you take a picture, where you park a car, what is in the background. While the car is obviously the star of the shot you don't want a background to detract from your subject. Either move that car so those things aren't in the shot (preferred) or edit them out in post-production (last resort). The last shot, the loading-dock thing is a hit-or-miss. I don't mind the dock so much, but not the garbage can, or whatever that big blue thing is.
You have pleasing angles on the car, now just to put more effort into the little details.
You have pleasing angles on the car, now just to put more effort into the little details.
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Racer
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From: Austin TX
Angles, angles make a big difference in how the final photograph is going to look. You did pretty good here, I like the angles, the approach. I also like the elevation. It doesn't appear as if you are standing and looking down on the car. It does look like you're squatted down a bit, at the car's level. This makes a big impact. Try it sometime, taking the same picture while lying on your stomach, while knealt down very low, while crouched, while standing, while on a step stool. Change nothing but elevation, see how much a difference it has on the impact of the image.
One thing I really like what you did was the perfectly straight front tires. You either want them perfectly straight, or noticably turned (with the wheel facing the camera, not the tire tread facing the camera). Too often you'll see the front wheels turned just a slight bit. It ends up looking "sloppy", whereas straight, or obviously turned, looks pleasing, looks purposeful, it doesn't look like a mistake or sloppiness.
Sorry to be so picky.
But Corvettes are beautiful cars. It takes a bit of extra work to move from a mere snapshot to a truly stunning image of your car. But down the road those stunning images will bring back much greater smiles and deeper memories than snapshots will. But I digress, I'm starting to sound like my marketing pitch.... 
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Drifting
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From: owasso oklahoma
The backgrounds are the easiest to get "wrong". It is easy to concentrate only on the subject (in this case the car) and not look past the car, to look at its surroundings. And odd as it may at first sound, things look very different when viewing them in person in three dimensions than they do when looking at a 2D photograph. Backgrounds in particular tend to look much different than they do in person, mostly because they flatten up out of necessity in a 2D image.
Angles, angles make a big difference in how the final photograph is going to look. You did pretty good here, I like the angles, the approach. I also like the elevation. It doesn't appear as if you are standing and looking down on the car. It does look like you're squatted down a bit, at the car's level. This makes a big impact. Try it sometime, taking the same picture while lying on your stomach, while knealt down very low, while crouched, while standing, while on a step stool. Change nothing but elevation, see how much a difference it has on the impact of the image.
One thing I really like what you did was the perfectly straight front tires. You either want them perfectly straight, or noticably turned (with the wheel facing the camera, not the tire tread facing the camera). Too often you'll see the front wheels turned just a slight bit. It ends up looking "sloppy", whereas straight, or obviously turned, looks pleasing, looks purposeful, it doesn't look like a mistake or sloppiness.
Sorry to be so picky. But Corvettes are beautiful cars. It takes a bit of extra work to move from a mere snapshot to a truly stunning image of your car. But down the road those stunning images will bring back much greater smiles and deeper memories than snapshots will. But I digress, I'm starting to sound like my marketing pitch....
Angles, angles make a big difference in how the final photograph is going to look. You did pretty good here, I like the angles, the approach. I also like the elevation. It doesn't appear as if you are standing and looking down on the car. It does look like you're squatted down a bit, at the car's level. This makes a big impact. Try it sometime, taking the same picture while lying on your stomach, while knealt down very low, while crouched, while standing, while on a step stool. Change nothing but elevation, see how much a difference it has on the impact of the image.
One thing I really like what you did was the perfectly straight front tires. You either want them perfectly straight, or noticably turned (with the wheel facing the camera, not the tire tread facing the camera). Too often you'll see the front wheels turned just a slight bit. It ends up looking "sloppy", whereas straight, or obviously turned, looks pleasing, looks purposeful, it doesn't look like a mistake or sloppiness.
Sorry to be so picky.
But Corvettes are beautiful cars. It takes a bit of extra work to move from a mere snapshot to a truly stunning image of your car. But down the road those stunning images will bring back much greater smiles and deeper memories than snapshots will. But I digress, I'm starting to sound like my marketing pitch....
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