On 24/10/04, Paul Stenquist, discombobulated, unleashed: >I had to shoot a car this morning. It was a "64 Dodge with a 393 and a >4-speed manual trans. One of only three made with that engine and >transmission combination. It's a survivor, with only 18,000 miles on >the odometer, so it's worth big bucks and is a suitable subject for >collector car magazines. i set out to shoot it this morning for a >magazine that features older Chrysler Corp. products. At dawn there was >beautiful light, but my location was too low to get any of it due to a >tree line. By the time I had any light at all, a heavy cloud cover had >moved in. So I shot and made the best of it. The sky was gray/white so >the reflections in the top of the car were horrendous. And the light >was muddy. I shot RAW and pumped up the contrast and saturation while >warming the color temperature before conversion. After conversion, I >went to shadows/highlights to kill some of the white light on the roof >and hood. It's not great, but I think it's okay. We'll see. I put two >shots on PhotoNet. The head on is with the A 400/5.6, the profile is >with the K 135/2.5. These two shots are radically different. That's >partly a function of the changing light. But also the position of the >car in respect to the brightest part of the sky. Most of the shots I >took resemble the profile. But I could move them more toward the long >lens head on shot. Which do you prefer. (I'm really hoping to get some >feedback here. In other words: Help!!) >Paul > >http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=2816809 >http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=2816802
Personally, I'd go for the front view but then again it's such an archetypal view that everyone's seen before and expects that the side-on view really breathes a breath of fresh air onto the car and let's face it, that's such a nice profile and the landscape really adds some appeal but then again it's not giving up the complete 'charm' of the car that one gets from the front shot where a safe visualisation of what a car really looks like comes into play but then again the side shot really puts the car into a setting and engenders a 'wide open' aspect that anyone who drives and loves cars will relate to but then again on the front view you have that fabulous license plate which speaks totally for itself and man is that a beautiful car but then again AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRGGGGGGHHHHHH you have a problem here. Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=====| http://www.cottysnaps.com _____________________________
