Why are there so few car photographs?

[smcquill]

A picture of the wedge tonight...

[Martyboy84]

rottie102 said:

I don't normally take photos of cars but went on a nice little roadtrip last weekend

What a car!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wow.

[Jame5]

RobbieKB said:

GFWilliams said:

So many corkers, but this is pick of the bunch for me.

Agreed, wonderful stuff...

P1 was the course car at the Goodwood Members Meeting at the weekend...

[roadman]

Brands hatch on Sunday


REDLINE RACING Carrera Cup 2014 by pistonsandcogs, on Flickr


REDLINE RACING Carrera Cup 2014 (2) by pistonsandcogs, on Flickr


IN2RACING Porsche Carrera Cup Great Britain by pistonsandcogs, on Flickr

Edited by roadman on Tuesday 1st April 18:51

[kman]

Doing the rounds on my twitter feed at the moment, this lovely 230SL Pagoda...

[richtea78]

Im not sure why but that looks like a model car to me!

[satans worm]

richtea78 said:

Im not sure why but that looks like a model car to me!

I think using a tele lense with small depth of field gives that appearance

[Robb F]

Some more amateur efforts! Any advice is always appreciated.

[smcquill]

another pic from Monday nights Wedge shoot...

[rottie102]

Robb F said:

Some more amateur efforts! Any advice is always appreciated.

Get a faster lens

[Robb F]

rottie102 said:

Get a faster lens

I am somewhat 'budget limited' at the moment. Thanks though

[boxsternoob56]

you don't need better lenses, I have seen some very professional pics with kits lenses...you need to know how to use them...pics seem generally ok to me...you just need to practice more

[rottie102]

boxsternoob56 said:

you don't need better lenses, I have seen some very professional pics with kits lenses...you need to know how to use them...pics seem generally ok to me...you just need to practice more

That doesn't mean that spending money on better lens wouldn't open up new shooting opportunities and improve the existing ones.

Faster lens would allow shallow depth of field in posted photos, this would make them better by making the background less distracting.
You are more then welcome to show me how to achieve that with a kit lens at f/5

[Robb F]

boxsternoob56 said:

you just need to practice more

Now that I can do!

[ExPat2B]

rottie102 said:

boxsternoob56 said:

you don't need better lenses, I have seen some very professional pics with kits lenses...you need to know how to use them...pics seem generally ok to me...you just need to practice more

That doesn't mean that spending money on better lens wouldn't open up new shooting opportunities and improve the existing ones.

Faster lens would allow shallow depth of field in posted photos, this would make them better by making the background less distracting.
You are more then welcome to show me how to achieve that with a kit lens at f/5

[trackdemon]

ExPat2B said:

rottie102 said:

You are more then welcome to show me how to achieve that with a kit lens at f/5

[markmullen]

ExPat2B said:

Is that some comedy fake shallow DoF going on?

[ExPat2B]

trackdemon said:

ExPat2B said:

rottie102 said:

You are more then welcome to show me how to achieve that with a kit lens at f/5

It's very heavy handed, and you can see some artifacts, mainly because I spent all of 2 minutes on it, but background blur is easy to add to pictures. If you are a pro and have 200 pics to sort in an hour, it is impractical, sure, but it is in reach of an amateur with an f5 kit lens

[trackdemon]

markmullen said:

Is that some comedy fake shallow DoF going on?

Forgot the windscreen

[rottie102]

ExPat2B said:

Sure