Why are there so few car photographs?

[Andy M]

trackdemon said:

Inspired pic!

Ha! Excellent.

I shot myself in the foot (photo-wise) by getting the car caked in mud prior to taking the photos, and so had to resort to shooting the car from further away than I'd have liked. The photos have ended up being more of a record of one of my final drives of the car prior to listing it for sale.

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[trackdemon]

Knowing the area well, that would have been an epic final drive!

[Tickle]

trackdemon said:

Andy M said:

I took these while out on one of my final drives of my current car before I sell it. I'm not a natural when it comes to car photography but these were the best of a fairly average the bunch.

Inspired pic!

Great place

[8bit]

Andy M said:

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I love this one, something just looks right about the car with the mud caked up behind the front arch.

[Andy M]

8bit said:

I love this one, something just looks right about the car with the mud caked up behind the front arch.

Cheers.

Around 2003/04 I was on holiday in Monaco with my family, staying at the hotel situated at the famous race corner. At the front of the hotel there were the usual spotlessly clean Ferrari's, Lamborghini's etc, but by far the coolest car was an original Audi RS6 estate on Italian plates covered every inch in a layer of dirt and grime.

My car gets cleaned every week, but I'm probably most proud of the car when it shows the signs of a long journey

[Fallingup]

No need to name this one. Pity about the people but it was swarmed:

[droopsnoot]

Nigel_O said:

From the exotic, to the mundane - my leggy (237k) Alfa GT in the snow just before Christmas - photography trip with my eldest son to Lake Vyrnwy in North Wales - first image is mine, second is my son's

They look very good, the snow adds to the scene. Not sure I'd be brave enough to drive around that back road first in that much snow.

[Fallingup]

A mates new project. Looks like a money pit but there's something about them:

[STIfree]

A nosey round the Mercedes museum in Stuttgart. Amazing place if you're ever in the area, but plan a few hours atleast as I really really rushed round in an hour and a half.

[lowdrag]

Lent the car to French TV to compare the ancient and modern.

11 by Tony Brown, on Flickr

[kman]

Aston Martin Vantage (2018)

Aston Martin Vantage 2018

Aston Martin Vantage Interior

the backplate is from a stock library

[lowdrag]

1997 for the Beeb's "The Car's the Star"

Beeb 1 by Tony Brown, on Flickr

[8bit]

Took some photos of a friends' Golf R last week. Just as an experiment really I did this as HDR. I did it manually, seven exposures from -3 to +3 stops (1 second up to 10 seconds), just blended in Lightroom 6 and white balancer corrected slightly (took the neutral value from the front number plate). I'm not sure if I like it, the lighting at the location is actually quite pink. Happy to hear any suggestions for improvement?

[SpeckledJim]

My Two-pennorth:

The glare from the windows on the left is the most attention-grabbing thing in the photo - can you dial that back?

[8bit]

SpeckledJim said:

My Two-pennorth:

The glare from the windows on the left is the most attention-grabbing thing in the photo - can you dial that back?

Thanks - I'll give it a go, dodge and burn have not been my strong point to date but I'll see what I can do. I might have used a polarising filter but I haven't got one for that lens yet.

[trackdemon]

I'd also tone down the bright windows: pull from the shortest exposure, decrease highlights in LR if needed. Overall the pink colour is too much and the car has absorbed a lot of that on the r/h side, so toning that down would be good. The yellow lights in the b/g clash, so if you can adjust that hue to something cool/neutral it'll be stronger.

[8bit]

trackdemon said:

I'd also tone down the bright windows: pull from the shortest exposure, decrease highlights in LR if needed. Overall the pink colour is too much and the car has absorbed a lot of that on the r/h side, so toning that down would be good. The yellow lights in the b/g clash, so if you can adjust that hue to something cool/neutral it'll be stronger.

Thanks for that. The lights really were that pink, I realise there's a cast/reflection on the nearside of the car but I sort of wanted to capture the car with the lights as they are. I didn't really do much by way of balancing highlights or anything, that's pretty much as Lightroom rendered the finished image from the constituent exposures - I'll maybe play with it some more this evening. One question - what do you mean by "pull from the shortest exposure"?

[leggly]

GFWilliams said:

A couple of shots from Abu Dhabi a couple of days ago... Bit rusty doing shots like this so good to get some practice in!

Excellent, they look like screenshots from Wip3out to me.

[8bit]

OK, had a quick play with my HDR image just now. Managed to pull all the saturation out of the yellow and orange channels to neutralise the horrible streetlight in the background. Took a bit of the glare out of the shop windows to the left but I can't get any more out really without them looking washed out. They're actually darker now than they are in the darkest exposure so I guess I maybe just didn't get enough range in the exposures I shot. I've desaturated it a bit as well to take the pink out. It's better I think but still not great.

[scoobydude]