How would you take this?

Juice · Mar 20, 2012

I wanted to do a picture of my car in front of my house, and this is the only angle I ended up liking. Unfortunately, I can't move the driveway, so this is really all I have to work with. What do you think?

Austin Greene · Mar 20, 2012

I'm sorry, but I just don't see how you could pull this one off. The house and car in one photo are just too distracting, I have no idea which is the subject. Personally, I'd just take the car our somewhere nice and do a shoot for it rather than trying to cram so much into one photo.

Lowrider · Mar 20, 2012

I like the picture of the car and the picture of the house for that matter. Just not together.

SCraig · Mar 20, 2012

I think I would have shot it from a higher vantage point. I'm not sure though, I'd have to see how it looked through the camera. I might have played with the depth of field some to isolate either the car or the house and see how that worked to.

Trever1t · Mar 20, 2012

longer lens shot from further away to 'compress' and a higher viewpoint like SCraig mentioned.

2WheelPhoto · Mar 20, 2012

Turn the car wheel further to the right too

Trever1t · Mar 20, 2012

yeah, looking at your exif you shot it at 24mm....makes it look like the car is a mile away from the house. go 100+

OscarWilde · Mar 20, 2012

It looks like that house is tiny... definitely take the advice above^^ the house is just to much for the photo! You need a more neutral background! Or at least less obtrusive

mommy-medic · Mar 20, 2012

Pull the car further out of the driveway so you get a side profile or at least less frontal and more side?

480sparky · Mar 20, 2012

The proportions are way off. Either the car had too many steriods, or the house belongs to Barbie.

Step back, and use a longer lens.

Frequency · Mar 20, 2012

480sparky said:
The proportions are way off. Either the car had too many steriods, or the house belongs to Barbie.

Step back, and use a longer lens.

Sparky... you are wonderful :lol:

Frequency · Mar 20, 2012

Let us put this way..OP wants to include the house and the car in a single frame...that cannot be questioned...now comes the next question, how to do that most successfully

Actually i like the composition....

I really appreciate the suggestion by Trever1T

Regards

thereyougo! · Mar 21, 2012

The Mustang is an iconic car and the house is better exposed than the car which is making it compete more. I agree about more distance between the two subjects. It would be nice to see more detail on the car including the mustang badge on the front grille.

Joey_Ricard · Mar 21, 2012

STEP LADDER - shoot downward

Juice · Mar 21, 2012

Wow, thank you for all of the responses!

I suppose I will just have to scrap the idea. Directly behind where I had the camera is an inaccessible hill, so that is as far back as I could go (which means no zoom).

I'll try the higher vantage point and shallower DOF, just to see.

Thanks again!