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Anonymous
I has a Volvo. Tips for getting better results on the parking lot? Or am I shitoutta' luck without a better setting?
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>> slim !yE5LOsLjxQ
take it mud boggin'. dirty that motherfucker up good.

setting is everything when photographing cars. your old car in your parking lot basically cannot be photographed with any kind of interesting quality. it's really hard to take an intereting shot of a car without augmenting its qualities by placing it in different surroundings. but the bright side is that it's a vehicle and is designed to move itself to other locations. so you have your work cut out for you, really.

come to think of it, your post is ambiguous enough that i'm starting to think you clicked /p/ instead of /o/. you in the right place?
>> Anonymous
Thanks for the constructive criticism. Now, when I say "I has a Volvo" I mean "One of my neighbors has a Volvo", it's just the /b/ in me taking control of my speech center. I myself is car-less, so /p/ is the place for me, I think. I see how you make a good point with the surrounding area matching the qualities of the car, but in my part of the world that "has already been done" each and every month by every car-magazine in either printed- or online form. I find myself bored when shooting the Audi Quattros, Cosworths and Pulsar GTi-Rs in the quarries and on the dirt roads and the Nissans and Toyotas on the track, sideways. Not that the typical "snapshot of the car on the parking lot" hasn't been done to death either by the people knowing nothing about photography and their P&S's shooting for that for sale-ad...
>> slim !yE5LOsLjxQ
>>48926
ah, i see. unfortunately though, photographing cars is just One Of Those Things You'll Never Be Able To Do With Originality. Since photography is about presenting a subject in a way that catches the eye and communicates a series of ideas, the problem you've got here is the subject and its popularity. Cars are everywhere, and they're also kinda simple. They Go, and they Look Nice. It's virtually impossible to pick an angle, setting, action, or anything else to attach to a car photo that isn't cliché by now. if you want to take a stimulating shot of this (or anything else, really) you need to think about what it is that you want to tell us about the car through your photo before you press the shutter. It's possible for you to present this car in this parking lot well enough to make for a good photo, but if you do, I'll be really, really impressed.
>> Anonymous
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Alright, thanks for the input. I guess I'll just have to "keep at it" until I reach some form of inspiration. I'd like to shoot a car at an airfield or in front of some foliage with an IR filter, but unfortunatly most, if not all airfields is off limits and I don't have a Hoya R72 lying around. I guess it's at this point inherit creativity and/or talent comes into play? That, or just shoot thousands of images and hope for the best...

In closing, please enjoy this R33 I shot at a local circuit meet last year.

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>> Anonymous
>>48963
I know Photoshop Elements has something that will convert a photograph to look as if it were an infrared photograph.
>> Anonymous
Yes, I've semi-successfully produced images that look IR-ish using CS2. But it's a time-consuming process that's far from ideal; the noise also has a tendancy to go through the roof when doing things this way.
>> Anonymous
parked next to jet aircraft, poised on a mountaintop, even hanging a car from a balloon was already done by MG.

my favorite is probably for the Ford Sportka
>> Anonymous
>>48985
Elements does it with three clicks, not counting opening the file.

I wonder why they don't have that in full on CS2; I would like to have it. (I have Elements 5.0 because I own the one camera that Camera Raw will only work for on CS3 and 5.0 and I had an old copy of Elements on a computer and would rather pay the upgrade for that than to CS3.)

But yeah, the noise does get sometimes. It's usually fine, though.