Yes, use your longest lens from a distance. Shoot on asphalt or concrete with a clean background like trees or hills. Position the car as far away from the background as possible. Camera height for your key shots should be about headlamp level. Shoot 3/4 and 7/8 front and rear as well as a full profile. Then shoot all except the profile from eye level. Finally shoot some 3/4 front and rear from a height of about 12 feet with a 50mm lens. Use a polarizer on all shots to eliminate reflections. With the low angle shots you will want to adjust the polarizer to eliminate reflections in the side of the car. With the high angles you may want to dial out the sky reflection. If you want to go all out you can shoot with two different polarizer settings and composite the results. Shoot the interior with your widest lens and a flash with diffuser. If the headliner is white or grey, bounce the flash off of it. Use the flash and a medium wide to shoot the engine.
Paul via phone > On Oct 3, 2016, at 5:27 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > > This question is mostly for Paul, but some other people might have some good > suggestions: > > My neighbor is trying to sell his 1970 Challenger R/T. He's had it for 40 > years and it's generally in pretty good shape (340 engine). He does not, > however, have good photos of it. I've offered to take some for him. Are > there any tips and tricks I should know about to avoid mistakes ahead of > time? I.e. long lens from a distance rather than close up with a wide lens? > > The car needs to be buffed out, would I be better of getting some shots of it > before hand so that the color shows more than the reflections? > > What about shooting the interior? Natural light? Maybe some flash to fill > so that the view outside the windows isn't blown out? > > Polarizers? Critical or not? > > Larry > > -- > Larry Colen [email protected] (postbox on min4est) http://red4est.com/lrc > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > 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 [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
