Thanks.
Paul
On Oct 24, 2004, at 5:42 PM, cbwaters wrote:
Paul,
Despite the cool license plate on the front in shot two, I like the look of shot one better. Something about the car, posed in front of those trees on some country lane looks timeless. It could benefit from some better light but hell, ya works with whatcha gots, eh?
Nice car.
CW
was thinking today in the shower that he hasn't shot any motorsports in about a year :(
----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Stenquist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, October 24, 2004 5:20 PM
Subject: PESO: Fighting Bad Light and Needing Some Help
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
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