Thats one so far I have more on my computer at home I will post later. What do you think?

 

 

Interesting Photography.............

Computer effects or angle of the sun causing the color distortion?

 

All natural thats the sun reflecting off the water what do you think? Nice huh?

 

Interesting shots, but in all of them, the camera is exposing for the sun/sky, leaving much of the car lost in the shadows.

In the last picture in particular, the entire sky, most of the water, the back end of the car and the side windows are all completely "blown out", while the underside of the hood, the tread in the front tire and the front wheel well are all completely shadowed. Essentially, the only parts of the picture that are properly exposed and have their details preserved are the lower half of the door and the gravel. EDIT - I just noticed that the lower half of the door is overexposed as well - the reds are completely blown out.

Of course, that's a really challenging setting to begin with. There's just too big of a dynamic range between the brightest and darkest parts of the scene to really capture all the details using only natural light. Short of using a tripod and taking multiple shots at varying exposures, then "stitching them together" into one properly-exposed picture, the only other thing I can think to try would be to lower the overall exposure a little bit to keep the sun/sky from blowing out and using a strong flash for some "fill" light to illuminate the front of the car and bring out the details. The flash wouldn't be enough to overpower the light coming from the sun, so you'd still get the neat coloration and reflections.

 

First, congrats on the car. In terms of PHOTOGRAPHY, you shots are very over exposed, and the focus points seem off. This is clearly seen in your last two photos as your Chili Red car clearly appears to be orange. Granted it may be caused by the resize, but unlikely based on the rest of the image. As Scott said, you may want to adjust your shutter speed and be sure your ISO is also properly set. I cannot see your EXIF info to suggest possible settings.

The shooting conditions are very tough. A nice wide angle lens positioned just to the left of your car in the first shot may have also truly captured the Mini and Sky equally. If you are good at photoshop, you can rescue the first image, kind of. The last three, unfortunately, you cannot save. I hope you do not mind, but I edited the tiny picture you had. Took me all of 2 minutes to change a couple things, but given it's tiny size and resolution, I was quite limited. I believe you were going for this look?

 

awesome backgrounds for your mini .

The only thing is, ..seeing crooked license plates makes me all itchy! -OCD-

 

Not to mention, your wheels are pointed the wrong way in all the shots but the first. Second, horizon could be more level. I like the first one tho!

 

nice shot....... glad to see anothre MINI near me...

 

Seriously, level.... It's not about being level

 

As this thread is about photographic technique of a JCW I moved it to the camera and video section so you'll get a little more response.

Great location, have you tried using reflectors or multiple exposure techniques to prevent the car from getting lost in the shadows?