Noble at Sundown

[joust]

Comments / feedback?

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[Nighthawk]

some great pix, 3 is my fave there though.

I like the light trails against the stationary car

[matt (gravy)]

Hi Joust,

I think the location in the first one doesnt work, the tree, growing through the roof, signs and blurred light in the background are all distractions, aside from that they are all quite badly underexposed. I guess you shot these on auto metering and the brightness of the sky fooled the camera, second one is probably the best example of that, you can barely see the car there. 3rd one is a nice concept but didnt really work IMO, as there is too much going on: the light, signs, lights etc. and the car is so dark, you cant see any detail in it.

Shooting car photos at sundown can often be fruitless as you have to expose for the car, which potentially means blowing out any nice sunset, best times are about an hour before when there is still plenty of light but it is soft and warm, same at about 6:30-7am at this time of year.

Just a matter of taste here, but Im not so sure such a low sporty car looks good on grass full stop...

Matt

[joust]

Thanks for the comments. It was just a bit of fun, I was actually out for a 'blat' and parked up after a good long run and just shot off a few where I'd parked.

The first one was just me playing with the contrast post shot - the sky was there in the original. I quite liked taking it out though as it brought my eyes to the car, but then I normally do have bad tastes.

Interestingly at work I see what you mean about them all being too dark - I think my monitor may have got seriously out of calibration at home now I look at it as they looked much lighter when I put them up and you could clearly see the car in the second one.

I'll re-run the monitor calibration and see if I can't get things a bit lighter (they were bracket shot in RAW so I have a lot of flexibility).

J

[joust]

Replaced the middle one with a lighter version and changed the first one as well.

J

>> Edited by joust on Wednesday 7th September 12:05

[F1sh]

Needs more wax mate.

Fish

[_dobbo_]

one and two are much better. Did you use flash on 3? Or was the car lit from behind you?

[joust]

I used a flash. I've a few different exposures of that one so will have a play tonight, but for now really need to get some work done!

J

[mindgam3]

joust said:

It was just a bit of fun, I was actually out for a 'blat' and parked up after a good long run and just shot off a few where I'd parked.

There's a time and a place for that sort of thing, the roadside isn't it

[V6GTO]

Justin,
I know what lenses you've got, but which body and which flash do you have? And was no.3 taken with the in-camera flash or with an on-camera unit? It seems to me the flash in no.3 wasn't powerful enough. They all seem a bit too contrasty as well(which I quite like actually) Bloody nice subject though

Martin.

[Tall_Paul]

for number 3, i'd try the shot without the flash, i've got some nice shots almost identical to that, but without using flash. on your shot you've lost all detail in the car, and the wheel seems to jump out of the photo

one of my shots:

[CVP]

My personal favourite is number one, but the grass does let you down a bit. I do like the slightly higher contrast look though - suits the Nobel well.

This is one of those times when I think you need a location such as a slightly broken down old office block or industrial unit as the modern Noble goes well with these more broken down backgrounds

Just my 2p

Chris

[joust]

V6GTO said:

Justin, I know what lenses you've got, but which body and which flash do you have? And was no.3 taken with the in-camera flash or with an on-camera unit? It seems to me the flash in no.3 wasn't powerful enough. They all seem a bit too contrasty as well(which I quite like actually) Bloody nice subject though Martin.

EOS300D
Speedlight 550EX (so not much chance of more power)

The contrast is "fake" in that I did it in the raw processing and used the OptikVerve 'landscape' filter, but like you I happen to like the effect.

3 was in almost total darkness by the time I got around to it (I couldn't even read the focus distance on the lense). If I'd got it earlier I wouldn't have needed to use the flash, but as I said, it was an opportunistic bit of playing around after a blat

J

[joust]

CVP said:

This is one of those times when I think you need a location such as a slightly broken down old office block or industrial unit as the modern Noble goes well with these more broken down backgrounds

- I'm not *that* happy with the grass effect and prefer stuff like this.