*********** 2010 Calendar Voting

[GTO Assassin]

Really? You can't even get 14 pics? What are you people, blind? Even if they aren't pulizer prize winning or nomination material, there are 14 pics to choose from. Yes there is quite a bit of crap to see (poorly lit/positioned photo's) but seriously, it aint hard kids.

Scotty

[Adollarwodbnice]

Originally Posted by GTO Assassin

Really? You can't even get 14 pics? What are you people, blind? Even if they aren't pulizer prize winning or nomination material, there are 14 pics to choose from. Yes there is quite a bit of crap to see (poorly lit/positioned photo's) but seriously, it aint hard kids.

Scotty

I hear ya... not THE BEST pickin's but it's not terrible... I picked them just fine.

[Buckeye Stealth]

Originally Posted by Stealthee

Hate to double post, but that was the problem with me. There were some cars that are definitely not calender worthy. Some colors are just not appealing to the eye. Then there were some beautiful cars that looked like a 4 year old took the picture.

I second this thought. It took me three run throughs to get 14 that I thought wouldn't look out of place on a calendar. A lot of sun in the camera, car in shadow photography along with poor composition and backgrounds that are too busy.

There are exceptions to the rules when the undesirabled effect is properly used as part of the composition. As always, this is just one person's opinion, but the attached submission takes the sun in your eyes and the car in shadows and uses it perfectly with the setting to create a very nice composition. I then took the liberty to do a composition crop to make a photo that I would like to see as a calendar car. Again, just my opinion of what makes a good photograph, others may differ. There were several others that just didn't cut it because there was a total lack of composition. I think that the suggestion that folks read MOBO's write up on how to photograph a car is a very good one and I'll add that they should print out the pertenent sections and go practice taking several hundred photos of their car.

Tips that I will add from my experience: take a lot of photos, mutiple angles, different distances, different exposures. Digital is cheap, take a 100 pics, choose a dozen nice ones and erase the rest. I'm pretty sure most of the photo guys on 3SI will agree that a high dollar camera is no guarantee of a good photograph and that a good photographer can take very good pictures with a WalMart disposable. Develope an eye for composition and color. Many books and magazines are available to develope decent photography skills. It is a very enjoyable hobby that can reap many benefits.

[vr4tune]

Originally Posted by Buckeye Stealth

I second this thought. It took me three run throughs to get 14 that I thought wouldn't look out of place on a calendar. A lot of sun in the camera, car in shadow photography along with poor composition and backgrounds that are too busy.

There are exceptions to the rules when the undesirabled effect is properly used as part of the composition. As always, this is just one person's opinion, but the attached submission takes the sun in your eyes and the car in shadows and uses it perfectly with the setting to create a very nice composition. I then took the liberty to do a composition crop to make a photo that I would like to see as a calendar car. Again, just my opinion of what makes a good photograph, others may differ. There were several others that just didn't cut it because there was a total lack of composition. I think that the suggestion that folks read MOBO's write up on how to photograph a car is a very good one and I'll add that they should print out the pertenent sections and go practice taking several hundred photos of their car.

Tips that I will add from my experience: take a lot of photos, mutiple angles, different distances, different exposures. Digital is cheap, take a 100 pics, choose a dozen nice ones and erase the rest. I'm pretty sure most of the photo guys on 3SI will agree that a high dollar camera is no guarantee of a good photograph and that a good photographer can take very good pictures with a WalMart disposable. Develope an eye for composition and color. Many books and magazines are available to develope decent photography skills. It is a very enjoyable hobby that can reap many benefits.

Thanks you for the compliment. I'm glad someone likes my submission. I didn't even think that I would get that noticed, with all the nice cars on this forum. I would have cropped some of the pics myself but they barely meet the pixel requirement as is.

By the way you car was my desktop wallpaper in 2005 well before I was on this forum.

[Buckeye Stealth]

Originally Posted by vr4tune

Thanks you for the compliment. I'm glad someone likes my submission. I didn't even think that I would get that noticed, with all the nice cars on this forum. I would have cropped some of the pics myself but they barely meet the pixel requirement as is.

By the way you car was my desktop wallpaper in 2005 well before I was on this forum.

You're welcome. Minimum pixel size problem noted. I realized that my cropped version was under the minimum requirements, I just wanted to used it as a composition example. One big problem is the hi rez requirement. For those without the high dollar 10+ mega pixel cameras getting a good composed shot is a challenge, any serious cropping puts the pic below standards.

About TWC (that's what I call it -The White Car), that was before I owned it. Hats off to Matt and Von, they created a beauty that I get compliments on all the time everywhere I go. I found out that up to just recently, TWC was a Cianci website car showing off the vented WB fenders and Victory hood. I wish I could have grabbed a screen shot of that.

[ifithas2be]

Nice selection

[ja3gt]

voted!
nice pix

[Alan92RTTT]

If you have not voted yet do it. I probably won't have time to do anything till the weekend.

[J-Groove]

Late voting, but voted.

-John

[HotelKilo06]

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