Paul
On Oct 26, 2004, at 6:52 PM, frank theriault wrote:
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
