Guide to taking photos, Learning and expert's opinion's Options

[Rusty]

Carry on from this thread GUIDE: How to get your car to calendar


This isn't a smarta$$ thread to people to laugh at, its to help people improve their skills.

taking photo's
Guide to taking photo's
Guide to taking photo's
those sites do explain alot and are worth a good read.

I'm no professional or anything, so this what camera I'm using a Kodak C743 (7.1 mega pixel, 3X optical zoom)

>>(apart from getting a "better" camera what else can help?)

OK when I took these photo's at was about 11am (which apperently you shouldn't do between 10am and 4pm)

so I chose a simple place, tidyed it up abit (You dont want a distracting background that takes the focus any from your celica.)


and now add a clean(ish) Celica, washed yesterday




doing a bit of photoshoping I tidyed up the lawn (not perfect, but does look nicer)



Changing the exposure compensater (or lighting*?)




this is apperntly another no no having the sun in front of your celica, too much glare and shadows.

will put more up

[Tigawoods]

but take into consideration that everyone doesnt have a camera capable of changing the aperture.


for those with point and shoots check your camera and see of it has

OPTICAL ZOOM or DIGITAL ZOOM

for those with digital...sorry i cant help you
but nowadays cameras are using optical.


to get a decent depth of field with a optical zoom
have you car in a set spot and step back quite a bit to the point where you have to zoom in all the way to get the car to fill up the frame.
the settings (depends onthe camera) should stay the same. If you zoom in, you have a large focal distance (space btwn u and the car) but the same aperture. and the dof will be greater rather than if you are closer to the car with the same aperture level.


honestly i hate explaining things lol i suck at it. ill see if i can borrow a friends point and shoot and give it a try