Yup, not mundane, not what you see while living your life

nice

 

I liked the first pic, but the horizontal rails and vertical seams on the building exterior sort of clashed visually and drew my eyes away from the car.

Sharper angles may force the perspective, but good composition has a lot of other important factors: lighting, contrast, visual flow, topic focus, color, etc.

A good place to start is a photography 101 sort of webpage... a tripod will certainly help (as mentioned), too.

FWIW, cars are almost as hard to photograph as the human form. I think they look pretty good, personally, so give yo-self a pat on the back!

 

here we are, a few select pics from my shoot today (i took 80 some pics)

i just cropped a few up a bit, i dont have the energy to stay awake a mess around with PS right now, i'll mess around tomorrow.......here they are...

 

I noticed the cloud peeking in that last pic so I checked the weather for Chardon, OH. It explains some of the diffused lighting.
You might consider incorporating thunderclouds as background for some pics. Of course, it's a personal preference, but sometimes rough weather can make for some dramatic shots, as was evidenced in the lightning thread a while back.

What do you think?

 

also Rednwhite....that last series of pics...

let me tell you how I would have done the different....and maybe you can add it to your tools/thoughts for the next shots...

the first one...right away I thought that I woulda put the mini in the right side of the pic...maybe angled the nose up more in the frame....other that that ...its great...

the second one...same thing...I just am not feeling the position of the mini...the area in the pic is fine...but the angle...it's not quite 3/4 front or back...it's not perfectly sideways...it's just there...again...good shot..just refinement in my book

the third one...I woulda liked to get close...low angle with extreme angle on the mini and the build/sky in the back...mini in the lower third but still majority..

the fourth....again..too square for me...I like to see wider shots...like the one above...or this one...



see how it's "wide"

again these are just thoughts...


when I take photos...I think about what I would do if I could change the scene how I was...I.E. the frame...people laugh at me cause I hold my hands up making an L with each hang like you are going to call someone a looser...but if you turn your right hand on it's side (thumb pointing down) and left pointing thumb up then touch right index to left thumb and visa versa you get a kewl little widescreen frame to try some shots to help vissualize...and if you want to square it up a litttle just seperate your hands a little in a vertical direction...


I hope I am not babbling too much...have fun...keep shooting...look at alot of car photography from people around the world.....in the end...that's all it takes is practice...

 

The close-up against the brick building (not the carport shot) is good - I would crop towards the opposite side, though - have more negative space leading the car, not trailing it. Looking good!

 

This is to be constructive and informative

First pic good lower angle. good pn rule of thirds, white sky is distracting, Id crop that out

Second pic, the two veritical pipes got to go. same iwth the white sign.

Third pic you can see too many oil stains on the tar.
distracting.

fourht, best shot. the yellow behind the rear looks like its growing out of the boot but you could photoshop that out.

This one got excellent potential

 

Excellent shot! Love those white wheels!

 

heres another, it needs some touching up tho, i dont like the pole in the backround...

 

Hey Rick, when did you put the S-Lites on?

 

hehe, just recently.

Jeremy (Sarcux) traded me for my 16's, he wanted a smaller wheel for winter tires.

 

That's a nice location and you hit it at a great time of day. Nice work.

Hope you don't mind, but I did a quick edit to the photo and wanted to pass it along.



BTW, do you have a version of that shot with the lights switched off?

 

ooh, that looks good, but to me it looks wrong because i know theres a big building over there and it looks off to me, lol

its probably only me cause i'm the only one who really knows whats there, lol

i have a few more but they came out blurry cause i didnt have my tripod. i'll get a few more next weekend when i go again.

 

yeah, that corner isn't perfect either. Like I said, quick edit, but post processing will help it. Post up your post processed version when you get a chance.

 

just had a quick(ish) go at this

i agree with DiD that left corner is a bit of a git to make less detailed as your eye is going straight there trying to work out wot the heck is behind it car/garage - sod all that keep it simple!

bit of cropping/saturation/color and there you go

 

I REALLY like the diner composition (I really like diners) but think that it's competing with the car for attention.

I would try a shot where it's more obviously in the backgound, and specifically a different focal depth.

I also think that while you have the image in PS to lose the pole, you may want to adjust the sky color to something more dramatic... like dusk - this will really make the colors pop.

Just my $.02 - I'm glad you're having a good time with it!

 

Something like a Graduate filter eh?
I like the composition
Makes it easier to work with.

 

Toldja my wheels would look good on the Cooper!

I'm liking the photography - MINI Corporate seems to like to use the industrial theme as well. I usually use a more backroads theme (aka, mostly shoot at the Dragon), but night-time city can be fun as well. Why not take it down into the Flats at night and shoot? We could have a club meeting so we wouldn't have the fear of getting mugged, lol.

 

Vertigo, that's very much what I was thinking... maybe even a little darker... more dusk, less sunset. Great PS job, though... you guys must be frequent FARKers.

 

haha sounds like a plan to me,