Critique R50 Mini Cooper - First attempt at car photography!

[pamplemoose]

R50 Cooper by Pamplemoose, on Flickr

I've never taken photos of cars before and whilst this didn't turn out too badly (in my opinion!) there are a lot of things I feel I could improve. Can anyone give me some tips on how to not have the sky reflected so much in the rear quarter? I used a CPL to cut down on a lot of the reflections but as you can see it's still problematic!

Any other tips would also be much appreciated!

 

[Carlh]

More light nearside, especially the wheels, other than that, it looks good.

You could bump up the shadows to bring out more detail, but rather than do that, if you're able to take another photo but use some lighting, (better weather perhaps, different time of day).

 

[James.H]

Pretty good Paul. A few critiques would be to
1. bump up the shadows a bit
2. this might be personal preference but I would take a few step back and incorporate the beautiful background into the picture. If the car was heavily modified then I would not mind a close up of the car but that is not the case here.

As for the sky reflection, you might have to take 2 different shots. 1 shot where the front windshield has reflection and rear is not and vice versa. Then photoshop it in.

Hope that helps