Tips for taking Car pictures, great for the family photo Album! Options

[coustoe]

First off, Coomer sorry bout that posting in the car pic contest thread, didnt read your whole post.

I wanted to start another thread on tips for taking car pics. Ive had some practice in potrait and landsccape and a little macro photography, but havent really tried taking car pics.

Any people taking their car pics or people with exp with taking good car pictures, please post your advice or discussions about the photography contest here.

Thanks

[Coomer]

It's alright coustoe. I think I've probably deleted at least 25 posts from that thread because people don't read.

Anyway, I've taken 2,136 photos of my Celica and they're all taking up about 430 mb on my hard drive. A few of the best ones are in my profile. As far as suggestions for taking photos, I suggest taking night and sunset and low-light without a flash. Though flash makes it easier to take sharper pictures in low-light, it often makes the lighting look very bad. See my example below. The left photos were taken by me with the flash on, and the right were taken with it off.



Also, when taking pictures, I try to make sure that there are no other cars in the photo, unless they're my friends' nice cars and we intend to have the cars in the pics for added effect. I try to take pics without houses and busy backgrounds as well, because it draws more attention from the car. Sometimes, however, a photo of your car with a city skyline or an industrial plant in the background looks incredible. You just need to experiment and take lots and lots of pics. I usually take 50-100 pics whenever I go on a photo shoot drive, because I can fit 200 or so 1280x960 pics on my camera and then I can delete whatever photos I don't want.