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I tried. I am trying to make my photos to look more professional, but I ain't doin too well. Anyone who knows wher their doing (not me ) please critique me. Thanks!
William
The pics are WAYYYY to big to post on the thread. Here is a link to the dierectory. If it asks for a username or password, the user is NAM and the pass is NAM
One thing i would play with if you decided to give this another try:
1) LIGHTING - Wait until later in the afternoon, or for a 'mostly cloudy' day. Shooting in harsh light (9-4) can make it tricky to get proper lighting. It makes the shadows very pronounced and it washes out all of the nice colors. One of my favorite times to take photos is around 7-8:45 on these summer nights. The sun is nice and low, isnt too bright, and it often has a rich yellow tint to it.
One thing i would play with if you decided to give this another try:
1) LIGHTING - Wait until later in the afternoon, or for a 'mostly cloudy' day. Shooting in harsh light (9-4) can make it tricky to get proper lighting. It makes the shadows very pronounced and it washes out all of the nice colors. One of my favorite times to take photos is around 7-8:45 on these summer nights. The sun is nice and low, isnt too bright, and it often has a rich yellow tint to it.
I'll take some more pics at that time and post them. Maybe that will do the trick!
I think you're framing is great. They're all a little over exposed though. I think the lighting would work. But the frame is filled with mostly dark areas which tricks the camera into over exposing the bright areas.
You could put the car in more even lighting or you could try to zoom in and fill the frame with a bright area, push the shutter button half way down to get the camera to get an exposure setting, then zoom back out to frame the car correctly and push the shutter the rest of the way down.
I've had good luck taking car photos with late afternoon light shooting directly onto the car. They're not MINI photos (our car is on order), but you get the idea:
Same here. Probably due to my work firewall blocking access to port 8100. Any chance this server could use the standard port 80 for http?
Dave, the making Mini photographs is a good thread. Any chance of making it Sticky?
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Same here. Probably due to my work firewall blocking access to port 8100. Any chance this server could use the standard port 80 for http?
Yeah, that was my problem too. They work from my home though.
RE: the photos
I'd say RallyMINI already identified the primary issue being the time of day. The other one is to be careful of the background in terms of what gets in and what is getting partially cropped out.
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Originally Posted by speednut
Dave, the making Mini photographs is a good thread. Any chance of making it Sticky?
Anyone who knows wher their doing (not me 
) please critique me. Thanks! 
