A few Ferrari shots, opinions please :)

[2jamesl]

Hello all, I recently attended a ferrari fun day show at highclere castle and took lots of photos, i thought i would share them with you and get some C&C whilst im at it.


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Thanks

Edited by 2jamesl on Wednesday 22 August 18:17

[davidd]

I like number 7, if you could have shot it a little more head on it would be excellent.

What I do not like is the font and lettering stuff you have all over the pictures.. A suble watermark is one thing...

D

[HeavySoul]

davidd said:

What I do not like is the font and lettering stuff you have all over the pictures.. A suble watermark is one thing...

D

What he said.

It really distracts and is hard to read also.

I really like the interior shot.

[Goochie]

Which interior shot? The way the other car blends in to the mirror of the other in number 10 is poor IMHO.

[HeavySoul]

Goochie said:

Which interior shot? The way the other car blends in to the mirror of the other in number 10 is poor IMHO.

It was 10 actually - and your quite right, I did not notice the blend...my bad...

[2jamesl]

Oh right, so there not exactly good then

[HeavySoul]

2jamesl said:

Oh right, so there not exactly good then

I wouldn't say that James - now I am not at work I can give you a proper opinion (non-technical may I add!):

1.Nicely set up, could of been taken from a lower angle to get a perspective of the stance of the CS.
2.Good - although the top of the roof intrudes a bit on the top left-hand side.
3.Nice - I like
4.I don't like the coloured backgrounds personally and red on red means the colour 'leaks out'.
5.A good shot but again would benefit from being taken from a lower angle to give a true idea of the cars height.
6.Lovely shot, really like the simple colours and the fact the shadow is on the floor - really like this one.
7.Nice idea - looks a bit of an odd angle though?
8.I like this one too - good grouping.
9.Again I don't like the solid colour background - too dominant. Nice photo and good detail of the glasswork.
10.See previous comments on this one.
11.Odd looking Ferrari
12.Good, a tighter focus would make this better.

Hope this helps more - and as said previously you want a decent watermark on them rather than illegible script as it detracts from some good work.

HTH

Edited for poor speeling.

Edited by HeavySoul on Tuesday 21st August 19:02

[2jamesl]

HeavySoul said:

2jamesl said:

Oh right, so there not exactly good then

I wouldn't say that James - now I am not at work I can give you a proper opinion (non-technical may I add!):

1.Nicely set up, could of been taken from a lower angle to get a perspective of the stance of the CS.
2.Good - although the top of the roof intrudes a bit on the top left-hand side.
3.Nice - I like
4.I don't like the coloured backgrounds personally and red on red means the colour 'leaks out'.
5.A good shot but again would benefit from being taken from a lower angle to give a true idea of the cars height.
6.Lovely shot, really like the simple colours and the fact the shadow is on the floor - really like this one.
7.Nice idea - looks a bit of an odd angle though?
8.I like this one too - good grouping.
9.Again I don't like the solid colour background - too dominant. Nice photo and good detail of the glasswork.
10.See previous comments on this one.
11.Odd looking Ferrari
12.Good, a tighter focus would make this better.

Hope this helps more - and as said previously you want a decent watermark on them rather than illegible script as it detracts from some good work.

HTH

Edited for poor speeling.

Edited by HeavySoul on Tuesday 21st August 19:02

Thank you for that, helps me further improve!

You mean spelling

hahaha

Will edit them to include watermark soon, if i have the time

thanks again

[Gemm]

I think some potentially great images are ruined by unnecessary post processing (title/name of the car & coloured BG in particular). My favourites are the 2 430 images, but I really don't like the 'Ferrari F430 (Spider)' especially the font. You should also lose the border on the last one too.

[2jamesl]

haha so is this and the stuff on my site above average for a 16 year old?

Go on tell me im good, tell me im good

haha


EDITED TO ADD TWO MORE

I haven't had the time to clone out the mans jacket on he one below

Edited by 2jamesl on Tuesday 21st August 20:49

[2jamesl]

any more for any more?

Before i let it sink into the depths of pistonheadoldstuff

[HeavySoul]

2jamesl said:

haha so is this and the stuff on my site above average for a 16 year old?

Go on tell me im good, tell me im good

YOUR GOOD!!!
To be fair your a young chap starting out on hopefully a lifelong hobby - it's all about learning and taking constructive criticism in a postive way to make your art as best as it can be mate. I should imagine many who use this forum have picked up invaluable tips from listening to fellow snappers criticisms

As for the pictures of the Enzo - really like the perspective on the rear shot, looks like a mild fish eye effect? If you could get rid of the bloomin' man it would help clean it up a bit.

With regards to the frontal shot, I am going to repeat myself again and say a lower, straighter shot would of been even better (perhaps lying on your front to take it...) and also you seem to have cut the roof/sky out the shot so it looks a bit rushed.

HTH

Edited to adjust awful quoting skills!

Edited by HeavySoul on Wednesday 22 August 08:57

Edited by HeavySoul on Wednesday 22 August 08:58

[Goochie]

I really like the first interior shot - lose the writing you've added to it and it'll look great.

[davidd]

yes, lower and straighter...

[TonyHetherington]

I REALLY like some of those shots! Especially the detail shots; fantastic (the Lambo name and CS stripe particularly)

I think it's a nice idea to have your web address on them when appropriate but do it more subtley and; this is key...a font you can read. I honestly can't work out what your web address is.

The cut out shots on plain background feel slightly un easy to my eye, but nevertheless some cracking shots and the colours came out really nicely - they do the car's justice.

I like

(and I am very amteur by the way)

[pastrana72]

i like the shots they are very good, i like the others were not to keen on text and borders, but i think you have some good skills, so welldone,

very nice pictures.

[2jamesl]

Awwww you guys!

Thank you so much, i have got time now so i am going to re-edit all of them again (oh god now) to include a nice watermark for you =P

Im also going to give a brief explanation of the two enzo ones, they are not fish eye they are actually two shots stitched together, you could call it a car panorama or a caranorama

I will return in a couple of hours : /



Watermark more like this? I can definitely see what you mean, it looks much better!

Does anybody know how i can make it set so it automatically prints it onto every picture?

and another one

Edited by 2jamesl on Wednesday 22 August 19:42

[cw42]

Great photos, agree with the comments on the watermark, and good to see you've taken the constructive critism and improved the pictures

To set the mark on all your photos, I'd recommend irfanview: http://www.irfanview.com/ which I use for our club all the time here: http://www.scoobysmacs.co.uk/gallery/gallery.asp?d... You can put any type of mark on a whole batch of photos, resize, sharpen and lots of other stuff, with just a few clicks And it's free!

[2jamesl]

Thank you

[CY88]

I'm sorry to say that I don't like any of the writing at all, whether it be watermark or not. If I thought I had a really commercial shot and was worried about someone stealing it, I just wouldn't post a hi-res copy of it in the first place. Really really really distracting and unnecessary! All IMHO.