Photos of static rally cars?

Quackles

Hello all..

I read through the thread on here a week or so ago giving advice on how to take shots at the forthcoming WRC here in the 'sunny' northwest, and I'm really looking forward to trying it out! However, I'm just wondering what sort of things I should be shooting in the service area? We had a bit of a tour of it today, I've uploaded some of the (unedited) shots on to http://pix.ie/quackles .. They just all seem the same to me, a non-petrol head. Any advice for my next trip down?

Thanks!

Fenster

Here's some I shot earlier

City-Exile

Quackles, try to get more interesting angles.
Get down lower, or up higher as required.
Also, try to isolate your subject.
To be fair, the images will only be of interest to a certain audience.

il gatto

Sorry Fenster. A Ferrari is a thing of rare beauty. A small family car with loads of stickers on it is not.:D
Try getting a few candids of the crews with the cars as a backdrop. It's hard to make a Mitsubishi Lancer or a Citroen C4 appeal to anyone but young men of a certain age with no girlfriends who's only hobby is "cruising" around town ad naseum listening to "bangin' dance". They've ruined a sport I liked when I was a kid. Tw@ts.

Quackles

Fenster wrote: »

Here's some I shot earlier

Holy smokes, now THAT is what I'm talking about.. see, I'm not into cars, but they are sexy photos

Will try shooting from low down.. up high may be difficult, there is only 5'8" of me at the end of the day.. But I'll try that, different angles.. Pity you can't photograph the noise of them

ThOnda

And tell those kids to get away from your view :-D

Technically good, but I am missing some people. I just like people in photos, if the photos are not special in other way.

My personal attempt to shoot cars is here.

evilhomer

Fenster wrote: »

Here's some I shot earlier

How did you get into my garage?????


But as others have said, down low usually works great, taking photos at strange angles can also produce interesting images.

Browse any of the car enthusiast magazines in a newsagents and you will get tons of ideas.

Good luck and show us what you get

Kali

Two main options for something different for static cars:

Details, details and more details... you're taking photos that anyone can take.. spot the details that make each car individual and snap away. See Fensters photos for perfect examples of this.

more examples from flickr..
http://www.flickr.com/photos/donroberto/250498417/in/set-72157594296250839/

Otherwise as already stated, try different angles, again for something slightly different maybe down low and wide-angle... examples:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kevinwhite/401195590/in/set-72157601294484851/

Sebzy

Quick and simple

If you wan to sell your images to the crew make sure their in the shots..
A great pic of a car up on jacks wont sell as much as a shot of the team around it or the driver in it.

Quackles

Sebzy wrote: »

Quick and simple

If you wan to sell your images to the crew make sure their in the shots..
A great pic of a car up on jacks wont sell as much as a shot of the team around it or the driver in it.

No intention of selling images, they're purely to try and improve my photography and get a pretty picture!

Thanks a million for the advice folks, lets see what I can do with it The including people thing is definitely fantastic advice. The angles thing may be tougher, you can't really get too close to the cars, but I'll try! I can see the headlines now... "mad woman arrested in sligo for jumping on top of rally car"...

Quackles

However difficult the static cars were, the moving ones were nigh on impossible

mikeanywhere

At least you gave it a go, thats the main thing!!

eyeball kid

The moving cars were pretty hard to get alright. This was the best I could do. It was 4 O'Clock in the evening and already getting quite dark which made it very hard to get anything.

Sorry if I'm not attaching the image the correct way. First time I've added a picture.:o

City-Exile

Quackles, did you try panning?
You could have done with a faster shutter speed.