On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 17:20:02 -0400, Paul Stenquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 >
I like the photo of it's pretty face, both in terms of the composition and the lighting. That bland bland sky really does not work with the profile. The full frontal shot seems to have a patch of bright green grass in the background, which gives one the impression (illusion?) of a sunny day, even if it's not. But, there don't seem to be any hotspots on the car. So it all works very well, imho. Make sense? cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
