You can't really do much about positioning so it looks like the CCTV is on it, the gap is too small.
I would like to have seen a shot taken 3ft to the left so that the road blocks take you to the centre of the car.
I'm a tad confused as the original image goes with the rule of thirds for the position of the car, that leads the building and road to differ from 50/50 of the frame.1st thing i notice is that there is too much road between the car and you and then you have the same with the building , i was always told to be somethign like 30 70 so lets say building is 70 percent of the image and 30 percent for the road
at the moment it is more like 50 / 50 take away most the road not all and re post and lets see what it looks liek it looks kind of lost at the moment
Just tried the crop on the original and I don't like how tight the car becomes on the image. It makes the building more the focus of the image which misses the point.hope you dont mind had a quick crop will delete the image once you have seen it
to me this looks better but i dont have the original so try a crop yourself and see what you think with it been smaller doesnt give the impact but when i zoomed it it does look better
5321384741_09ac7cb079_b by wegotitugetit, on Flickr
Thanks rob, glad I'm not going mad with my compo.I'm not convinced the crop works, it's a little too tight at the bottom, I kind of like the lead-in that the paving gives in the original.
You can't really do much about positioning so it looks like the CCTV is on it, the gap is too small.
Daz, hotspots can be fairly easy to sort out and those look fixable to me, drop me a msg in FB if you want a hand.
I prefer the roadway in view.
The geometry of the blocks blends nicely with that of the buildings and nice to see a contrast in the buildings, but I would like to have seen a shot taken 3ft to the left so that the road blocks take you to the centre of the car.
Nice depth and contrast though.
You have caught some good colorising of the RH windows.
Nice set of wheels. What is it?
Thanks for that. I can easily edit that out and will do it now.I think the original shot is fine actually. This may sound silly but if you can change the dark patch of road in the bottom left corner so that it is the same as the rest of the road it may work much better. At the moment it's playing a trick on the eyes making the car look like it's on a dodgy angle which it's not.
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obviously you'd spend more time cloning than me, I just did it very fast to show you what I'm trying to explain. I also took a little chunk off the top rather than the road so it's closer to the composition you wanted in the first place. I hope you don't mind...
as all your photo's darren i think its spot on!
The 'Other shot' is good and if I hadn't seen the more distant shot would have been happy with it but the shot from further away has a particular punch and the edit done by 'ANDWHYNOT' seems better balanced than before.
Your car I assume. Nice one.
I have a mere G11 GTE 2.0 Nordic Primera.
It's the best way to lift the car from the surroundings I find. I do get what you mean and I think the only way to show the car hasn't been photoshopped in would be to show the lightspill from the flashes but the lightspill just makes the shots look messy I find.Altho this is a great shot I can't help but feel the car is too light and colourful for the dark background I know it needs to pop and stand out but at my first look I wondered if the car had be photoshopped into the background
Thats a nice car!
It's the best way to lift the car from the surroundings I find. I do get what you mean and I think the only way to show the car hasn't been photoshopped in would be to show the lightspill from the flashes but the lightspill just makes the shots look messy I find.
What about a high powered flash from high above and beyond the car - would cast a shadow of the car onto the ground this side. Then take yourself and the flash out of the shot with a separate BG layer.
Thanks Luke. They are Rota GTR's on mine.Lovely S14a on rota's mate...grids are they?
I personally love the shot! Look forward to the rest
It's a good point you've raised though which Andrew has helped with now so I'm glad you brought it up.Oh don't get me wrong it does lift the car beautifully just in my opinion maybe a little too much, at the end of the day it's still a great photograph
I work in architecture as my main profession and can assure you the building is ugly lol.I think that the road looks great, tbh I would get rid of the car
The structure of the building is great and compliments the road structure perfectly.
Unfortunately I am not a car person, but like the first comment about the cameras watchin it more. However you would need to PS or crop the right camera out as that is looking the other way completely.