Dino and Alpha photoshoot.

normally for obvious reasons I would say great looking Dino, but with the Ferrari decals and the Cavalino on the front grill its spoiled, so Great looking Alfa ! must have been a treat to have them both side-by-side.

 

mikeyr: I agree, but I bought it for my wife and SHE WHO CAN NOT BE DENIED demands them because, my other cars came with them...... once the novelty wears off, they will slowly disappear.

 

i freaking love the pics, this is a great thread!

 

cool shots

 

Very cool Dino.

 

The Alfa SS was always a favourite of mine, beautiful.
Dino looks great aswell. Thanks for posting

 

Lovely cars! Perhaps you need to explain the label situation to your wife in terms she can understand - "It's like putting Jimmy Choo labels on your Manolo Blahnik's !" the she might understand the faux pas...

 

Ken,
very nice pictures! i didn t know well this two cars but they are pretty nice.
The Dino color is lovely.
thanks for posting.

 

awesome photos - I love (alFA's - check your thread title - no more AlPHa!!!) I love spider's....Fiat, Alfa, and F-car spider's!

 

Just beautiful. Simply beautiful!! Thanks for posting some classics.

 

VERY nice SS! It's in a super condition!
Thx for posting.

 

Ken, i like a bunch of these photos. The one thing that's bothering me is the rule of thirds. don't take this the wrong way, but it seems like you are breaking this alot. If you don't mind, i respectfully submit a few crops i did to illustrate what i'm thinking. a polorizing filter on the lense would be a good idea on the ones with a lot of sky too. Again, great shots. here is what i would do with some of the compositions. hope this is not out of line. My favorite is the one you posted 4th from the last.
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i was trying not to be too critical because i didn't know how you would take it. But, since i know you, i thought i would take a shot. normally i wouldn't touch anybody's work and i don't like it when people touch mine. just looked to me like alot of them had the horizon and the subject right in the middle of the composition. I was taught that was a critical no-no. i thought some of the shots were really nice if they were cropped a little differently. and the best way to show that was to crop and repost. especially the first one i posted. What looks good is very subjective and also depends on what the photag is trying to accomplish. these are my opinions only and do not reflect on your work. i am by no means a great photagrapher. a new set of eyes on any project is always good. I love it when someone sees something different than me and points it out. I miss points of view all the time.

as far as the bizzarrini goes, i was playing with a new lens i picked up on a whim used from the camera store. It is a 50mm 1.4. I bought it mainly to shoot people indoors without a flash. Which i found out in that pic of nate and his wife from the same shoot is very difficult because of the narrow plane of focus. you'll notice she is in focus and he isn't.Without looking up the pics, they were probably shot at 1.4 on ae. on the processing, i usually go into selective color and jack up the neutrals and blacks. i also use a little unsharp mask. but each one is different. i play it by eye. i mess with it in raw first then usually auto levels then selective color than unsharp mask. i'm sure there are better ways to do it, i am not trained in ps.

i understand about posting low res pics on the net. i'm sure they look awesome when professionaly printed. I need to start printing more of mine.

 

WetPet: My wife has a different version of your rule of thirds - three cars in the barn, one is hers, the Dino Spider is accordingly not mine. I do not like this rule.