Feedback on Car photos

[jonsalty]

Hi all.

Went to Silverstone race Circuit today and took a few pics. Would love to hear your feedback.

 

[KmH]

I would only call one of the 3 a 'car photo' - the BMW that is under exposed because it is back lit and no fill lighting was used.
A CPL filter on the lens can help control the reflections in the windows of the car.
A speedlight or 2 in the car would also have helped make the image stronger.

Because it is in focus the helmet becomes the main subject of the photo and loses a lot of visual weight being crammed to deep into the upper left corner of the frame.

For me, having sufficient DoF and framing so the whole word FORD is in the frame and in focus would have made a stronger image.

I did some dodging (lightening) on the car, sign in the background, tarmac in front of the car, cloned out debris on the tarmac, selected just the car, made an Vibrance adjustment layer and added vibrance, selectively sharpened portions of the car and the Silverstone sign.
I added a global +.25 of exposure using an Exposure adjustment layer.
I cropped the photo and added a thin black border.