Horta

Hey All

Well I finally got around to waxing my car and taking some good pictures. I wish I would have done this in time for the contest but oh well maybe next time.

By the way I need some advice from you Pro Photographers out there. My Pearliest paint was just shining like you would not believe but for some reason that does not show up in the picture just clean whit paint but no shine?? Can I do something different?

Thanks
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SharpLS-96

Nice pic's Horta!! Looks like something you would find in an LS promotional advertising catalog with the beautiful backdrop/background IMO. Extremely classy like the LS is.

Job well done.

Pagong

Good looking LS.

To make the car shine has something to do with the sun and the angle of the shot. You just have to get it right while the sun is shining on your car, without having the glare when you take the shot. And one thing is try taking your pics at a lower level...IE lay down on the street and take the shot even with the car.

JeffO

Looks awesome dude! There's a few reason why your pearlized paint was so hard to photograph:

1) The texture of the pearlized look is tiny and granular, and while you really notice it when you're a couple of feet away from the car, you don't see it very well when you're 20 feet away like you were with the camera.

2) The resolution of your digital camera lens is terrible compared to my Nikon or Hasselblad, so it is physically impossible for your camera to show that granular pearlized pattern. The real hint is if your lens is plastic. Remember, on digital cameras, they put all the effort into the electronics and not the optics. In cameras like My Nikon and Hasselblad, it's the finest glass on earth, and it's the same glass lenses that NASA uses on the moon and space shuttles.

3) Try playing around with a star filter or a polarizer filter. I use polarizers all the time to make the sky darker blue, remove haze, and bring out details in the clouds. I can show you some awesome shots I took where the polarizer makes all the difference. Maybe that will help. There's a lot of humidity and haze in florida and we often get dull photos.

4) Try shooting much closer, and catch the paint at an angle where you know the sun is behind you, and you get a bright reflection off the car. In most of your pictures, the sun is directly overhead, so you get almost a shadow effect on the side of the car, with no angled light bouncing off the hood to the camera, because the sun was straight up over the car. If you don't see the pearlized effect in the camera, you won't see it on the photo. I prefer to shoot late afternoon between 3-5.

5) Lastly, the exposure is incorrect on most of the images. The bright white of the paint is overexposed, so that you can't see any detail, even if it was there to be seen. It's called whitewash in the photo circles. The shot where your driver's door is open clearly shows this. If you look at the right side of the photo, you can't even see the dividing line of the rear door because it is whitewashed right out. If there was any pearlized pattern to be seen there, it got bleached right out. Try playing with your contrast settings and see if that helps.

The best thing for you to do is to try shooting on a slide film. This is one of those situations, where the digital cameras cannot compare in quality to 35 mm cameras. For example, on my camera I can bracket the exposure, which means I shoot the shutter speed that the light meter says to shoot at, then I shoot one f-stop above, and one f-stop below to get the right exposure.

Sal Collaziano

Very nice LS.