Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 1:50 pm
THis sounds like an excellent idea to me. I've got a couple of candidate shots of the Trav but none of the Saloon.
Could I make some comments?
Cars in interesting locations, and interesting angles on cars, always make these collections better I think. For example, what about this one and this one?
I would say that a Minor dragster on the strip makes a better photo than the same car in front of a house. It's in its element, which makes the shot more interesting. Here are good car photos: Link
A windswept Minor on Beachy Head would be cool too. Bill's photo of one car in front of another has nice positioning, but could perhaps be made more interesting by showing the distant car reflected in the shiny black paint of the nearer one.
Nadeslaus' shot of his van in the snow is nigh-on perfect, it just needs the whole car in the shot.
Closeups sometimes produce photos that are far more interesting than the thing being photographed. Here's an example - a closeup of the bottom of a swimming pool in the sun, that ends up far more interesting than a photo of the pool. Here's another example of a fascinating closeup of a mundane item.
Cars as dots in the distance are fine, as long as the rest of the distance is interesting. A splash of colour in the middle of a moorland would be quite a good picture, as long as the car is close enough to the camera that you can make out exactly what it is.
Here is an example of a photo where pulling back from the subject has turned a mundane photo of a navigation buoy into a wonderful photo.
Another: Link. Here the car is a small part of the photo - this would work even better with a Minor because of the constrast of old and new.
So, I'd say: Fill the frame, yes, but I don't think it has to be full of Minor. As long as it's full of interest it doesn't have to be full of car.
Here endeth Jim's "Scenic Photography 101"
Could I make some comments?
Cars in interesting locations, and interesting angles on cars, always make these collections better I think. For example, what about this one and this one?
I would say that a Minor dragster on the strip makes a better photo than the same car in front of a house. It's in its element, which makes the shot more interesting. Here are good car photos: Link
A windswept Minor on Beachy Head would be cool too. Bill's photo of one car in front of another has nice positioning, but could perhaps be made more interesting by showing the distant car reflected in the shiny black paint of the nearer one.
Nadeslaus' shot of his van in the snow is nigh-on perfect, it just needs the whole car in the shot.
Closeups sometimes produce photos that are far more interesting than the thing being photographed. Here's an example - a closeup of the bottom of a swimming pool in the sun, that ends up far more interesting than a photo of the pool. Here's another example of a fascinating closeup of a mundane item.
Cars as dots in the distance are fine, as long as the rest of the distance is interesting. A splash of colour in the middle of a moorland would be quite a good picture, as long as the car is close enough to the camera that you can make out exactly what it is.
Here is an example of a photo where pulling back from the subject has turned a mundane photo of a navigation buoy into a wonderful photo.
Another: Link. Here the car is a small part of the photo - this would work even better with a Minor because of the constrast of old and new.
So, I'd say: Fill the frame, yes, but I don't think it has to be full of Minor. As long as it's full of interest it doesn't have to be full of car.
Here endeth Jim's "Scenic Photography 101"
Seriously, everything you have writtenmakes sense, the only thing I would add is that landscape (not portrait) format photos will be better in this instance since the calendar is formatted that way. But all your photos are great, if you've got any that you own the copyright to and would like considred for inclusion please email me at gt7 at thomson555 dot fsnet dot co dot uk.
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- remember we're restricted to 13 moggy pics. You won't be held to it, but I will email you all on or around the 14th of October asking for cheques by 30th October. Given that I then get cheques to the value of 50 copies, I will place the order at the start of November and bank all the cheques at the same time. Phew!
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