Thanks for your comments, Bob. Actually, I thought I did a pretty good job of hiding my reflection. I was so busy doing that, however, that I didn't notice the man with the sunglasses visible through the windshield!
Also, as I said upstream, I was trying to depict the car while at the same time showing a bit of the event in which it was displayed, by including some of the spectators on the sidewalk and the car passing by. In retrospect, I should have picked one of the other, and modified the image accordingly. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Bob W <p...@web-options.com> wrote: >> From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of >> Bruce Walker >> >> I'm afraid busy is what this one says to me too. My eyes don't know >> where to go. I like the little touches though, like the collection of >> flags in front. >> >> I feel that, faced with this scene, I'd either pull back, go wide and >> take in more surroundings or go in close for details. My own tendency >> is to go for details as I don't have the chops yet to figure out a good >> wide angle composition. I'm hoping that Bob Walkden will publish a book >> on that subject. >> >> > On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 9:17 PM, Daniel J. Matyola >> <danmaty...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=16453772 >> >> > > Well, that's very flattering, but unlikely to happen. If I know more than > other people about composition it's only because I'm a couple of pages ahead > of them in the book, not because I'm any great expert on it. > > I've never been one for car photography - Paul Stenquist's your man for > that. The only car I've ever tried to photograph was my MGB Roadster, which > I photographed from a distance on a coast road. The pictures weren't very > good. > > In the case of this car, you have to take what you can get where you find > it, and Dan's done a good job in the circumstances. In ideal circumstances > you'd take it out into the countryside somewhere and photograph it in > action. Failing that, I think you can probably get something by getting > further back and photographing it with a long lens from a relatively low > angle. I wouldn't photograph it close up with a wide-angle lens because I > don't particularly like the distortion it causes, or the fact that you can't > hide your reflection, but it depends on what you want to show. > > B > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
