Weirdest car photo on a selling website?

[HTP99]

Reminds me of that awful home made Pagani Zonda, however this seems slightly better but it's difficult to tell with all those lines and differing patterns.

[Driver101]

Blib said:

That's been up for sale for ages. It looks awful.

[A1VDY]

Roaringopenfire said:

A1VDY said:

jamoor said:

FA57REN said:

Wacky Racer said:

Advertising your cars in the middle of a lake.

That's also poorly composed, one key point when shooting reflections is to ensure that no other features intersect with the subject's reflection. In that instance they've managed to merge the chimney with the car...

Little things like that and the general framing of the subject give away that they're not using an experienced photographer, so what else are they skimping on?

Do any car dealers use photographers? I’d expect a car dealer just to take photos with an iPhone or similar high quality phone, which is more than adequate.

Phones don't produce great quality pictures no matter what make they are. We use a Canon D200 dslr which gives much improved pictures.
Even so though, pictures are all taken on site with other cars sometimes in shot.
Dealers who take with a reflection or white background studio shots always come with a 50% increase over other identical cars elsewhere..

50% increase in what? Cost? Sales?

Cost as in price of the vehicle.
KGF cars are a prime example.

[A1VDY]

Stussy said:

SD_1 said:

Like the watch people who have staged photos with other very expensive objects conspicuously in the background

Scroll down, you’ll soon work out which post it is

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

PMSL.
How cringeworthy some people are. Much better than that pcp'd BMW would be a huge pile of cash in the background

[AlexRS2782]

LaurasOtherHalf said:

Auto810graphy said:

AlexRS2782 said:

Similar theme to the Hartley pic at the top of the page:

Any of the big dealer groups that (badly) Photoshop images of their cars onto different backgrounds in a failed attempt to provide an upmarket / posh setting to promote the car & try (well fail) to hide the reality of the dire / boring location of where the car / dealer is actually located

Examples normally feature:

- The car is always well out of scale compared to the luxurious building, golf course, country club, forest, etc, it has been superimposed into
- If it was parked in the way it was, with a real background & not the fake one, it would actually be parked halfway through a wall, hedge, etc.
- Whoever did the image crop, forgot to edit out the tarmac in the photo around the wheels of the car that indicate the car is in fact parked in a disabled bay, or no parking zone, not the posh, country club estate featured in the background

A few examples from a couple of the prolific dealer groups on eBay

Edited by AlexRS2782 on Saturday 30th May 01:35

Good bit of software as no photoshop needed, just upload the images and they come back without any background cars or Dave from service photobombing.

They all look like they're about to cowp over!

Another one that popped up whilst i was on AT yesterday. If it's such easy software to use, as referenced above, why doesn't anyone appear to be able to use it correctly

[rodericb]

A1VDY said:

Stussy said:

SD_1 said:

Like the watch people who have staged photos with other very expensive objects conspicuously in the background

Scroll down, you’ll soon work out which post it is

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

PMSL.
How cringeworthy some people are. Much better than that pcp'd BMW would be a huge pile of cash in the background

A pile of cash sitting randomly on a table, next to a watch sitting randomly on a table with a BMW in the background parked randomly across a disable parking bay. It screams wker but, sadly, a lot of people would think it's the best thing ever....!

[giltranator]

Bizarre third photo....
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/124216181839

[Brads67]

giltranator said:

Bizarre third photo....
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/124216181839

I'd be worried about Dag hair in that motor.

[MDMA .]

giltranator said:

Bizarre third photo....
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/124216181839

And a time waster has brought it!

[Dog Star]

giltranator said:

Bizarre third photo....
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/124216181839

ebayer said:

All belts and service done bushes done 2006

So some work done 14 years ago is considered a selling point?!

[thebigmacmoomin]

giltranator said:

Bizarre third photo....
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/124216181839

I hate it when they upload screenshots of photos like this rather than the actual photo they took so you only get in in a tiny size.

[carinaman]

rodericb said:

A1VDY said:

Stussy said:

SD_1 said:

Like the watch people who have staged photos with other very expensive objects conspicuously in the background

Scroll down, you’ll soon work out which post it is

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

PMSL.
How cringeworthy some people are. Much better than that pcp'd BMW would be a huge pile of cash in the background

A pile of cash sitting randomly on a table, next to a watch sitting randomly on a table with a BMW in the background parked randomly across a disable parking bay. It screams wker but, sadly, a lot of people would think it's the best thing ever....!

I didn't know that watch people were into Casios so at least it was informative.

[Calmchap]

Great lens used here:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/MAZDA-MX5-1-8-SE-MK3-5/...

[DickyC]

Calmchap said:

Great lens used here:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/MAZDA-MX5-1-8-SE-MK3-5/...

Supplied with multi colour wheels.

[alorotom]

A1VDY said:

Phones don't produce great quality pictures no matter what make they are. We use a Canon D200 dslr which gives much improved pictures.
Even so though, pictures are all taken on site with other cars sometimes in shot.
Dealers who take with a reflection or white background studio shots always come with a 50% increase over other identical cars elsewhere..

That’s just not true at all though and hasn’t been since 2016/7 ... plenty of review out there pitting the iPhone against high end DSLR (into the $7k region) and there being minor/small to nil discernible difference to the average consumer. Combine that with the compression that all sites use when images are uploaded there becomes no need for anything more than a flagship phone.

Curious on stats on the 50% increase and examples of like for like - seems excessively steep to be “always” true.

[Calmchap]

DickyC said:

Supplied with multi colour wheels.

I'm surprised they're not charging extra for them!

[Ambleton]

i give you a photo of a monitor on a desk, displaying a photo of a part built kit car.



https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/kit-car-vindicator-spri...

[CRA1G]

Ambleton said:

i give you a photo of a monitor on a desk, displaying a photo of a part built kit car.



https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/kit-car-vindicator-spri...

It's a rubbish photo....

[Roboticarm]

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/303592566178

[smn159]

Roboticarm said:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/303592566178

A broken Renault owned by a giant dustman - excellent!