car photos? Where?

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gravymaster

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1,857 posts

248 months

Monday 22nd March 2004
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Hi all.
Some advice please:
Am going out with a buddy and his 360 modena to take some good photos of said dancing donkey for him. Does anyone know any good locations between reading and oxford to take the photos? Last place i did was an esprit on brill hill outside of oxford (which i would recommend to anyone http://www.gravynet.com/photos/cars.html to see the photos, but its too often used.)

Any advice would be really appreciated!

Cheers

Matt

gravymaster

Original Poster:

1,857 posts

248 months

Monday 22nd March 2004
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just noticed the photography forum. Oops.

LotusACBC

2,591 posts

284 months

Monday 22nd March 2004
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Great pics of the Esprit! It is my new desktop background

david010167

1,397 posts

263 months

Monday 22nd March 2004
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I know this is not what you are after but:

Anywhere that does not detract or distract from the car too much, such as:

An interesting brickwall.
A Church.
Country Road with no distracting road signs.
Field.
River backdrop.
Old Quarry
Old disused factory or ruined building.
Near old industrial heavy equipment, such as an old rusted train.
In a scrap yard with the stacked cars behind the nice shinny car.

The trick is to try and isolate the car from the background but still give the picture meaning.

I hope that helps and if it does not, just ignore me.

Have a look at the Gallery at:

www.tvrcc-surrey.co.uk

There might be a few ideas there. Also have a look at the past events list as there are a lot of photos in there as well.



David

david010167

1,397 posts

263 months

Monday 22nd March 2004
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and I almost forgot.

Do not be constrained by camera angles, have a play, get down low on the ground, get up high, the rear of most cars are also very nice and often over looked.

Have a look at my profile for a pic that is very low, but I quite like it.

David

DustyC

12,820 posts

254 months

Tuesday 23rd March 2004
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What filters did you use on the sunset ones?

gravymaster

Original Poster:

1,857 posts

248 months

Tuesday 23rd March 2004
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I didnt use any filters for the sunset photos. I set the exposure using the spot setting: You set the exposure on a spot of the thing you are taking a photo of, then lock it, recompose the photo and shoot. Took me forever to get the white balance right too, and by the time i got it sorted my hands were so cold i could hardly press the shutter anyway!