Photo Shoot (Challenge Stradale)

Do you have a poll option for "right mouse button is worn out from clicking "save picture as"?

 

Nice shots!

Just my quick thoughts....

There are some interesting angles. But I'm not so sure about the background in many of the shots. I find a lot of them distracting (maybe too sharp due to plenty of DoF, and background looks sharper than the car in some shots). And I find trees, lamp posts and chimneys coming out of the cars quite distracting too. I'd prefer to see cleaner backgrounds. And for the shots of moving cars, I think slower shutter speed would have been better as the car looks too static (unless that was your intention). But this is purely my personal opinion/preference.

 

I thought that they were very good photos! I know you havent been a photographer for a long time, but I really gotta say, your pictures are really coming out nicley! Im in the same boat as you (new to photography) and I dont hesitate to say that you have a better eye for setting up shots than I do!

Keep shootin'!

 

those are some of the best pics I've ever seen great job Mike

 

Good job.

Understand getting low for the stationery shots but with the foreground tiles I thought it was a model for the first few photos.

With only 10 minutes to find a location please take this criticsm as both trivial and constructive.

 

great shots man, you've got some talent

 

I voted good, although there are some great shots. Maybe just a bit dilumted by the fact that there are so many.

I'm not a pro, so take this FWIW, but in general I perfer shots that convey a sense of being there, not a snapshot of the car, but something that makes me feel like I am in the scene, about to step into the car and drive it. Keeping the car out of center and working in the setting helps. It is tough to describe, I don't just mean good scenery, but rather putting the viewer in that setting.... Conveying the sense that I might be about to turn the key of this thoroughbread. Does that make sense?

My fav shots are
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DSC_0133 * best
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Have you ever worked with a polarized filter? I've seen some great shots done with those.

Keep up the good work, and keep the pics coming

 

That's where the fun really starts.

 

These are nice shots Mike! Keep up the good work!

 

great shots! the only criticism i have is the location. To me the colors of the surroundings do not do the car justice, but everything else was great.

 

GREAT CAR GREAT PICS.
I love it.
Does the CS has xenon headlights?

 

Mike, great shots! I voted excellent. Not your best, I've seen much better ones from you (like Streetking's) but I think that's a) the location as mentioned and b) because red cars are really hard to take good pictures of. I like the ones with the lights on best

 

Very nice. There are a few real outstanding compositions. real nice equipments too... nice job.

 

nice. I love the close-ups of the ornate details.

 

Mike excellent job, you take great photos. There are a few guys here who really are fantastic photographers, Frank and Jay from CC come to mind as well.

 

I like them a lot...though I'd say a lot of your extreme worm's eye view shots are worthless from both a technical standpoint and an artistic/appealing standpoint.

As far as the rest...I'd try next time to tone down the exposure because your reds are blwon way out on most of them. If you used a shorter exposure, you'd get some sharper shots, and you could always go in and do some color adjusting in PS afterwards.

Past that, great work.

 

Most were pretty good. I definitely remember seeing a lot better from you before though[ur pics typically rock].(unless there is another mike running around posting pics then I feel stupid.)

 

Hey Mike, pretty good shots there. A couple of observations:

It looks like you were shooting around noon so the colors are going to wash out quite a bit in that light. Would be interesting to see the same shots taken at dawn and/or dusk.

Not sure which lens you were using, but in general, the further away you get from the car and the more telephoto the lens, the better the look of the resulting pic. Especially if you want to soften the background. For your next shoot, try to force yourself to leave your lens on the max zoom to telephoto and back up until the car fills the frame. Or just shoot a portion of the car. You'll be amazed at how different the shots look.

Also, I'd try to be more conscious of the background and how the trees, especially, are positioned. Not as good when they are growing out of the car as when they are framing it.

Overall some really nice angles and composition, though. Keep shooting and playing around with it. You'll start to find things that work and toss things that don't.