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honez



Registered: August 2008
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Vintage Holden Utility. I just love the anthropomorphic "facial expression" of these older cars.
Again, I've been playing around with Photoshop post-processing. Lots of cloning -- especially having to remove me and my camera/tripod out of the many reflective surfaces.
I know the crop's a bit too tight -- I would have liked to have given it a bit more room at the front to move into, but there was another car parked right in front of it which is just out of frame. Ideally I would like to have placed the nearest car headlight on the right-hand vertical thirds line, but the original framing meant this wasn't possible. No amount of cloning work would have allowed me to do this without a complete background replacement, and with so many reflections, I think this would look too artificial.
Any comments, feedback and/or criticisms are much appreciated, so don't be shy.
· Date: Sat April 18, 2009 · Views: 3185 · Filesize: 106.6kb, 776.5kb · Dimensions: 1200 x 760 ·
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Kev

Registered: February 2008
Posts: 2,722
Sun April 19, 2009 12:55am

Your drier, cooler season will be coming up soon in Brizzie, so you should be able to get some car shots with bright clear, blue skies in the background. The overcast grey is a kind of neutral contrast to the red, but it does somewhat make the pics sorta too dull - kinda. I don't see any probs with the car itself...that never seems to be an issue. I guess, the main concern is 'where' it's parked and all the other stuff around it. I notice that they are often on grass. Might be a nice change if it were on shiny tarmac, or some interesting paving patterns...like ya get in a few places.
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honez

Registered: August 2008
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Sun April 19, 2009 2:24am

Yeah, the grass and other clutter in the background is the biggest pain trying to capture these cars at shows. I suppose it'd be even worse at Car shows in convention centres as people would be packed in around the vehicles like sardines.
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LollyLockhart

Registered: April 2008
Posts: 325
Sun April 19, 2009 4:09am

At the same time the clouds and a more rich color (verse brighter) gives the pic a feel of time travel, since it's an older car I think it helps the pic tell a story. I really like how the HDR looks. Nice job
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