weird place for a photoshoot but I like the pics.

 

Good camera, I shoot with an xsi.

 

One thing that's akward is turn the tire towards the camera. Typically you want to turn the wheel towards the camera or keep the wheels straight. Usually the only time you'll see shots with the tire facing the camera of for tire ads in magazines. Having the wheels facing the camera, to me atleast is easier on the eye.

Other than that just practice on composition, framing and try new things. Even if it's breaking the rules. Rules are just a guide line. While they're good to follow and will almost always create a good photo, ignore the rules from time to time. Try to be a little creative.

The rule of thirds (again a rule) is one of the most important that I follow, but not always important to follow.

Not much you can do with an 18-55 but once you can afford it, get something like a 50mm f/1.8 or an 85 f/1.8... These will give you less depth of field, but can also make a photo less sharp. It's all in learn how to get the best combo of shutter speed and apature to make a photo have a nice DOF.

http://www.dcviews.com/tutors.htm

Also, you don't ever want to steal another photographers style, but looking at others photography can be insiring and give you ideas

Some of my favorites:

http://ruji.net/
http://www.eastonchang.com/
http://www.stevedemmitt.com/
http://www.marcadamus.com/

 

Talk about waking the dead! lol

 

Super weird place for a photo shoot, but looks nice.

 

I don't think a graveyard is an odd place for a car shoot. It's pretty ideal in terms of the convenience. No one there to bother you while you shoot--everyone's dead!

I like it. I think if the shots were executed in a more gloomy dark way then these pictures would be very dynamic.

 

how grim!

 

are those rivets on your SE lip?

 

Here, I did an edit to show you how I would have gone about doing it.
I put my watermark in my edit because I'm a creature of habit.






To me that's a dynamic picture.

 

THANK YOU!!! SO much.
Ill definitally save those links,and study up!

But the tire turning wasnt anything intentional, i was just turning to go to a different part of the graveyard, and thought to myself "this might be decent, the trees behind me, lets take a look!" so i did and snapped a few!

Thanks everyone for your critisizm, and editing! It makes me look at other peoples through process about pictures what how u owuld change them! and it really helps me out!



Thanks!

-Don

 

Yeah kinda,
This is my winter setup, and this is my winter front lip. It got ripped off last year when i hit a chunk of ice that fell off a truck infront of me.
The clips that you screw into from the back of the front bumper ripped off, so i saved the lip and decided to drill through where the clips used to be and fasten it with nuts and bolts that i bought at the hardware store, and painted black.
I do kind of like the look myself, it looks cool :P

 

Fishstix,

I like the second picture, really sharp. The background definitely highlights the car without actually looking washed out. Is that done in Photoshop?

 

Thanks man. Yup, Adobe Photoshop CS4. I had like 8 layers when doing that edit and a lot of masking.

 

Careful on the sharpening, look at the hood of the car, you kind of overkilled it.

Cool effect non the less.

 

The halo you're speaking of is not from the sharpening. It's from one of my layer masks to make the car itself correctly exposed. I have to feather the layer, which results in the highlighted halo since feathering softly diffuses the selected layer into the outlying layers. By doing so I avoid much worse effects, but this was a 10 min edit on a photo that was underexposed, so there's only so much one can do.

Sharpening on CS4 does not create a halo like it does in other programs. Oversharpening just makes an image look fake because it's too pixelated.