Car Photography! Feedback always helps!

[LoganSwearingen]

 

[Shipman]

In a couple the sky is overexposed, and the sunglare in the first one is really distracting. The others are ok but nothing overly great. The car in the first couple is a tad ricey for me though in my opinion.

 

[Stevepwns]

I think the composition is good. The ideas are good. The lighting kicked your ass though. The Tiburon is nice shot, my favorite of the group, the car needs to be a little brighter. The second Celica shot is good but the sky is completely blown out, I dont know if you can save that or not.

 

[12sndsgood]

1. doing a car shoot clean the car, front rims look super dirty. I would have gotten lower to put the sun behind the car, its not adding anything how it is and pulls away from the car because it is the bright spot of the photo. I would have used some lights to light the car up so its not underexposed.

2. looks a bit blurry to me.

3. not a fan of the processing on this one

4. my favorite of the bunch. i'd like to see a little more light on the car.

5. driveway shots are something I wouldn't show personally.

 

[Shipman]

driveway shots are something I wouldn't show personally.

In automotive photography....location location location. Driveway and parking lot shots almost never look good from a photography perspective. To show a new addition or something its fine but when trying to showcase photography skills it almost never works.

 

[gconnoyer]

driveway shots are something I wouldn't show personally.

In automotive photography....location location location. Driveway and parking lot shots almost never look good from a photography perspective. To show a new addition or something its fine but when trying to showcase photography skills it almost never works.

This 100%
Location, location, location. You can take the exact same composition shot, with two different settings. One in a driveway, and one anywhere else. One image will just look like a cell phone picture and the other will be something people "wow" at.
Also, the subject is HUGE. The silverado, ranger, and part of a hyaundai, not interesting subjects. The celica (to me) isnt interesting either, but I understand that people do like rice.

Clean cars! The front wheels of the celica look like they have never been cleaned.

Keep the picture level. Canting (dutch angle) a boring, bad picture, doesnt make it good or interesting. It just hurts to look at.

1) I'd like to see the shadow side of the car a little brighter (whether you use a fill light, or overexpose it and bring the background back)
And a different angle. It looks like you were just standing and took this shot. Which almost never works with cars because we see them from that exact perspective all day, every day. Crouch, kneel, lay down, anything but stand.
Also, the composition. I'm not a huge fan of the car being in the very center of the picture, with ZERO space above, below, left, and right of it. It needs put off to a corner or something and not cropped/zoomed in so close.

2) Seems out of focus to me.
Same composition fix from number one.
It would add alot to the image, IMO, if you had the guy and the car in the bottom right third of the image with some space off to the left so we get drawn out that way to see where/what he is looking at. Also, you cut off his feet and the bottom of the car.

3) Its a dirty silverado. Having the sides, bottom, everything cut off, looks bad and is really distracting. Unless you're doing a detail shot of an emblem, logo, etc.. and are going to fill the frame with the car, try and always include the WHOLE car.

4) Its a hyundai. And just part of it. The power lines, and background are really distracting.

The last one, Its just a driveway shot of a ranger lol.

 

[JohnnyBlack]

The one that really jumps out at me is the Tiburon, like the sky and reflection off the car.

 

[Braineack]

nothing exciting.

the celica needs an undertray.

 

[KmH]

When posting multiple images, it helps to number the images.

A very handy accessory for doing just about any kind of photography, but very helpful for car photography is a good, high quality, Circular PoLarizing (CPL) Filter.

A fundamental concept of the visual arts that applies to photographic lighting is "Light advances, dark recedes."
In other words, you can direct a viewers attention by using light. People mainly look at the brighter parts of an image.
In #1 that is just about everything in the image except the car, your intended main subject.

Another fundamental, of visual art composition, is the concept of 'visual weight'.
The visual weight of a subject can be enhanced:
By making the subject sharper than the background (selective focus, which results from using a shallow depth-of-field)
By making the subject(s) brighter than other portions of the image (light advances, dark recedes).
By framing the shot so the subject occupies a majority of the scene.
By placing the subject(s) at the end of leading lines.
By contrast. By color. By lots of ways.

Visual weight in art - Bing