Why are there so few car photographs?

[leggly]

This has been decomposing outside this house for years.
Rust in peace by Squiffy1308, on Flickr

[McAndy]

Which will decompose faster; the car of the window sills?

[leggly]

The R-send
Rust in peace 2 by Squiffy1308, on Flickr

[Rogue86]

McAndy said:

Rogue: I really like your style. If I ever obtain a car nice enough to warrant a photoshoot, I'm coming your way!

Alternatively, if you need a slightly less, erm, premium car for practising upon, I'm happy to provide FOC!

Thank you! I appreciate a lot of what I do often isn't to traditional tastes, so glad you like it.

Edit - One from last night, hanging around Leeds doing some filming.

Edited by Rogue86 on Friday 24th March 15:51

[TheRainMaker]

[JohnS]

McLaren 570S being pushed hard on track at Knockhill on Saturday.

[DannyScene]

First attempt at light painting something that isn't underground
Taken straight off the camera unedited as I don't know what the hell I'm doing when it comes to editing, any critique blunt or helpful appreciated

[mko9]

Lose the purple wheels.

HTH

[DannyScene]

mko9 said:

Lose the purple wheels.

HTH

It doesn't but thanks for taking the time out to comment

[DibblyDobbler]

Hi Danny - the first two are 'blown' in places ie too much torch work which give basically a white result. It's a bit of trial and error really but I guess you should aim for a nice even coverage. Do you have a photo editor of any sort? Even with a very basic bit of knowledge you could do a lot - eg getting rid of the streaks where the torch has pointed towards the camera. If you shoot in RAW you can recover a fair bit from highlights or lighten areas which are too dark - probably worth investing in Photoshop Elements if you are going to be keen

[kman]

Ferrari 246GT at Shelsey Walsh this weekend

Ferrari 246GT Dino

[DannyScene]

DibblyDobbler said:

Hi Danny - the first two are 'blown' in places ie too much torch work which give basically a white result. It's a bit of trial and error really but I guess you should aim for a nice even coverage. Do you have a photo editor of any sort? Even with a very basic bit of knowledge you could do a lot - eg getting rid of the streaks where the torch has pointed towards the camera. If you shoot in RAW you can recover a fair bit from highlights or lighten areas which are too dark - probably worth investing in Photoshop Elements if you are going to be keen

Thanks for the feedback mate, much appreciated. I don't have a photo editor, I did try a cracked version of photoshop but found the whole thing a bit daunting if I'm honest
I don't suppose you have any recommendations of a more simple editor than photoshop?

[Rogue86]

DannyScene said:

Thanks for the feedback mate, much appreciated. I don't have a photo editor, I did try a cracked version of photoshop but found the whole thing a bit daunting if I'm honest
I don't suppose you have any recommendations of a more simple editor than photoshop?

Dibblys advice is solid to be honest, but even with the best technique in the World you're still going to need an element of editing and Photoshop is the industry-standard. Lightroom is probably simpler to use.

[Craikeybaby]

DannyScene said:

Thanks for the feedback mate, much appreciated. I don't have a photo editor, I did try a cracked version of photoshop but found the whole thing a bit daunting if I'm honest
I don't suppose you have any recommendations of a more simple editor than photoshop?

Photshop Elements is the simpler version of Photoshop.

[SonicShadow]

[DibblyDobbler]

DannyScene said:

DibblyDobbler said:

Hi Danny - the first two are 'blown' in places ie too much torch work which give basically a white result. It's a bit of trial and error really but I guess you should aim for a nice even coverage. Do you have a photo editor of any sort? Even with a very basic bit of knowledge you could do a lot - eg getting rid of the streaks where the torch has pointed towards the camera. If you shoot in RAW you can recover a fair bit from highlights or lighten areas which are too dark - probably worth investing in Photoshop Elements if you are going to be keen

Thanks for the feedback mate, much appreciated. I don't have a photo editor, I did try a cracked version of photoshop but found the whole thing a bit daunting if I'm honest
I don't suppose you have any recommendations of a more simple editor than photoshop?

You are welcome You can pick up Photoshop Elements for £50 or so - it has plenty in it but with just a few basics you'll soon be up and running. Adjusting ahadows + highlights, cloning, cropping etc are not hard at all so don't be put off. Just ask away on here and plenty of folk will be able to help.

[DannyScene]

Dibbly/Rogue/Craikey thank you all for taking the time to reply
I'm going to download and play with elements and lightroom tonight, hopefully I'll have something worth uploading tomorrow

[silobass]

As a thought, if you don't manage to get Lightroom, it might be worth seeing if you can download Camera Raw for free. You'll be able to play with the sliders that can turn down the highlights and do some other basic stuff. I'm just not sure if you can download it free of charge if you don't subscribe or own an Adobe product. Should still work if you shot them in jpeg to a certain extent but if you shot RAW then it would be handy.

[LongQ]

DannyScene said:

Dibbly/Rogue/Craikey thank you all for taking the time to reply
I'm going to download and play with elements and lightroom tonight, hopefully I'll have something worth uploading tomorrow

Did your camera come with any software? Or the option to download and use some software for free?

[SonicShadow]

If you need a free raw processing solution try Darktable - http://www.darktable.org/