Paul
On Oct 24, 2004, at 5:44 PM, Cotty wrote:
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
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