I went out for an early morning photo shoot and thought I'd share some of my results. It's my fist time using flickr (Motor_NAM) so let me know if the links have any issues. I plan on uploading more of my photos to flickr as I touch them up.

 

I love the last one. The reflection on the MINI is sweet!

 

Thanks. The reflection is one of my favorite features of the JB, when the MINI is clean the reflection is really clear, I usually think of the car as more of a work of art rather than transportation.

 

Awww... that's beautiful. JB rocks!

 

#1 and #4 are my faves.

#1 - It's a touch underexposed for the foreground, but the end effect is really nice. The sky detail is very well captured.

#4 - I'm not so sure #4 would be as successful in color. It feels a little tightly cropped on the top. Was there something you were trying to crop out? Regardless, the tracks in the sand add a lot to the image.

 

For #4 there was a trash can and grass I tr ired to get rid of, I didn't even notice the tracks 'til I climbed up the sand bank, the sand was very pale so it seemed almost natural to go B&W, then added a cooling filter in PS to add a little more contrast.
I think if I was a little more patient, waiting for just a little more light the front would be nicely detailed, and alas I had to tripod so longer exposure was almost completely ruled out, always next time.
I appreciate the critique, every once in a long while I get to do this kind of thing and I am yet to take a picture that meets my standards but feel like I'm getting closer with every book read, advice given and experimentation.

 

Love them all - I always love looking at MINIs near or on the beach...

Donna

 

Would you mind posting #1 and #2 here?
https://www.northamericanmotoring.co...ad.php?t=37950
Tripod is really required. Doesn't the light change quickly? I'm thinking of resurecting a video light, and placing it near the car. It's dirty, maybe not...

 

I just posted this in another thread... then I saw that you had more here... sorry to be spamming you - but my question still stands!

Hey motor on - where "on the motorway" do you live? I think I know where you took those pictures... pretty close to where I took these:

 

I live in Port Orange, I took the photo three beach parking zones north of the ponce inlet light house, if you check my gallery I have a pic in front of the light house at night, also mentioned it in another thread I'm amazed I haven't seen you in the area, seems like there are one or two new MINIs in town every week.

 

I wonder if there are enough MINIs b/w flagler and New Symrna for an area culb/ chapter of Sunshine MINIs

 

Why aren't you over at www.sunshineminis.org ??? I'm trying to get a regional club started for people like us - DAMM - Daytona Area Mini Motorists. There are a few around town, but not many active online. It's surprising to see you on here but not over at SSM.

I'm fairly new, only had Minvader for a couple months, I work in Daytona, so I'm around town a bit, but since I live north and you live south, our paths probably haven't crossed yet.

Let's get together & work on building a DAMM group! We're planning on heading to the track for the Grand Am race, and I might go for the 24hrs as well... lots of other SSM club events coming up too, check it out!

 

HA! looks like we're both thinking & typing the same thing at the same time!

 

I too am planning on showing up for the Grand AM and 24hrs. races, I'm acctually the last one to post there. Took me a while to learn enough about MINIs to feel comfortable posting, and I forgot I had the Sunshine account, went to use it last week and it said I was inactive and needed to have an stie admin. fix the issue, so I figured I'd just talk to someone while at the races. I would love to be apart of starting a DAMM, feels like i've been seeing MINIs all over, and even more on frappers and the registry, I think we just need to get the word spread.