Automobile 101

**Ryogenetic** · 3rd March 2012, 12:05 AM

Terry, here is an early shot I did with my GF2:

In hind sight its a bit over board but I was trying to mute the backdrop.

**gerryquiff** · 3rd March 2012, 01:55 AM

Originally Posted by Loose Canon

Both the photos and the vehicles are a bit dated. About a year and a half on the photos.

I shot a car show and then tried a bit of compositing with them. I thought though they have not been shot recently, they would be fun to add to this fine thread.

Some nice cars and images in this lot, mate.

**gerryquiff** · 3rd March 2012, 03:06 AM

I might as well contribute after seeing some great images

My little Consul (I'll eventually drape a model around it for a shoot)

This one showing more of it's character

With the fog and the old garage, this scene was just waiting to be used (a point and shoot with dusty lens to give the image an old feel)

Others from around the UK, more often than not, using a 11-18mm on my Sony A700

**Ryogenetic** · 3rd March 2012, 05:19 PM

Gerry those are some great images, I think you are right on the Gas station, a little magic and that would look very retro. BTW is that a custom Grill on your Consul, looks very GM-ish.

Today to I was playing in the rain trying to capture some atmospherics, to that end, I have these edits:

I think all three work, and I also think that it is because of converging lines towards the subject. I might be wrong. Any thoughts?

Thanks
Ryo

**gerryquiff** · 3rd March 2012, 07:52 PM

Originally Posted by Ryogenetic

Gerry those are some great images, I think you are right on the Gas station, a little magic and that would look very retro. BTW is that a custom Grill on your Consul, looks very GM-ish.

Ryo

Ryo,
Thanks, I work hard at my photography
The custom grill is Morris Minor 100o bumper over-riders. I'd NEVER put a GM part on it

The gas station image...I'm happy without the PPing, the car war unfinished at this point. I've a couple where I've re-created early 60s images. (It's a 1959 based on early 1950s style)

Gerry

**Loose Canon** · 3rd March 2012, 08:43 PM

Originally Posted by Ryogenetic

Terry, here is an early shot I did with my GF2:

In hind sight its a bit over board but I was trying to mute the backdrop.

Nice, Ryo. I don't think its overdone at all. In fact, that's exactly what I see every time I look in my driveway! Its just that I am told that what I see and what is actually there are two different things!

Originally Posted by gerryquiff

Some nice cars and images in this lot, mate.

Thank you, Gerry.

**Loose Canon** · 4th March 2012, 12:29 AM

Tomorrow is Sunday.

That is the day, once a month, I take my AMC Viper/Gremlin out from under the tarp, which is in the garage, shine her up good, and take her out for a spin! But only if there is not a cloud in the sky!

I drive her just slow enough so that the wheels glint in the sunlight! Gun her engine at the stoplights.

I leave my turn signal on at all times because I am olde enough to be qualified by the State of Missouri to do so. Says so right on my driver’s license. I will change lanes opposite my turn signal on a moments notice. I will do this from the extreme left lane and time my Classic Multi-Lane Drift four lanes over to the off ramp on far right which I should have already missed! Fortunately, I will be driving slow enough to clog all traffic and this will maneuver will come as no surprise to anyone who is already pi**ed at me.

Which will be everyone!

I love Classic Automobiles!

**gerryquiff** · 4th March 2012, 11:01 AM

Originally Posted by Ryogenetic

Gerry those are some great images, I think you are right on the Gas station, a little magic and that would look very retro. BTW is that a custom Grill on your Consul, looks very GM-ish.

Today to I was playing in the rain trying to capture some atmospherics, to that end, I have these edits:

I think all three work, and I also think that it is because of converging lines towards the subject. I might be wrong. Any thoughts?

Thanks
Ryo

The car is too modern for my taste, but its a great subject here, and the setting works well.

Number 3 is the stand out for me.
The converging lines work, the colours of the containers are better in this one also, but the winner for me is the framing with the subject at this angle.
I like it

**Ryogenetic** · 5th March 2012, 01:49 AM

I was working with individual curves today. Keeping on track with the last subject I chose the middle edit to work with. Here are the results:

Here are where the curves ended up at:

Thanks
Ryo

**Ryogenetic** · 10th March 2012, 05:18 PM

Good read and great idea by Richard Hammond of Topgear:

Original link: Here

The arrival of the digital camera has done many things for many people. Granted, it's buggered the job up pretty badly for the companies to whom we used to send our films for processing, and it has rather killed off the glorious anticipation of waiting for the returned wallet of freshly minted snaps to drop through the letterbox - before turning out to be a load of blurry shots of rainy days in Cornwall.

But the digital revolution means I no longer have to endure long, cramped hours in the airless cupboard under the stairs, sloshing bits of photographic paper around in trays of developer and fixative to coax an image out of my poorly exposed rolls of Ilford Fp4 and emerge with the shots that would hopefully make my name as a creative visionary.

Anyway, point is, we can now take snaps on our digital cameras or our phones, blazing away without a care in the world, rather than cringing with guilt at the expense every time we hit the button and consume another frame on a roll that holds only 12, 24, or - if you were feeling flush - 36 opportunities to nail that award-winning shot.

I think this is a good thing. Our photos are freer, more innocent, less considered and - without wanting to sound like an art student - perhaps more revealing of our relationship with the subject and the wider world around us. Millions of different, disparate lives will be charted through a limitless stream of quality images detailing every party, glitch, loss, success and moment of joy, pain or boredom.

It is these seemingly worthless shots of everyday life that will probably more accurately recall our days in the future. All of this is well-known and certainly not news to the brigade of merry snappers who fill this magazine with finely crafted photographs every month. But I would contend that the greatest change effected by digital photography is not the way we take photographs, but how we store and look at them. I don't know about you, but my phone has little room left in it to store fripperies like telephone numbers, crammed as it is with photos.

I would contend that the greatest change effected by digital photography is not the way we take photographs, but how we store and look at them
These are the photos a chap would, in years gone by, carry in his wallet. Soldiers would keep a photograph of their loved one in the breast pocket of their tunic. Well, now they can carry a bundle of snaps that would, in old-school printed form, fill up an entire rucksack. I have thousands on my phone. There are some of my wife and kids, a couple of my home and one, for reasons best examined elsewhere, of James May and Jeremy Clarkson bending over a sofa together while a South African nurse bears down on their exposed backsides with a syringe.

But the majority of the 2,986 photos on my phone are of my cars and motorcycles - both currently owned and those long since passed into other hands. And not just one shot of each, there are dozens. Each vehicle has its time with me recorded in staggering detail: beauty shots profiling the car or bike's best angles and most tantalising details, shots of us on holiday, at home together or engaged in some intimate act of maintenance or repair. I consult these photos often, using them to illustrate points in conversation or for reference - much to the delight and fascination, no doubt, of those with whom I'm talking.

Given the impressive storage capacity of digital devices, I think we're missing a trick here. I carry pictures of my car with me, so why don't our cars carry pictures of us? What a fabulous and useful reference it would be if we could, when considering buying a used car, take a look at images of every previous owner stored on a chip, perhaps as part of the dash. That little old lady might be revealed as an altogether racier creature who cared rather less about service intervals than the advertisement would have us believe.

What if you recognised someone? Or they looked like you? It would be mega. And it would put the car into context, give it some meaning and give it a past all of its own. I would love to see every one of the people who have owned my old E-Type since 1962, if only to admire the moustaches and flat caps. A car would come to you rich in history, the more the better. It would prop up the used car market and save jobs. This system must be introduced. It will probably happen this year.

Figured I would share;
Ryo

**Ryogenetic** · 19th March 2012, 12:45 AM

So I finally got out this weekend to shoot cars, I worked on details only here are my results:

Thanks
Ryo

**mstrozewski** · 19th March 2012, 01:49 AM

Porsche looks sweet! nice job!

**Ryogenetic** · 31st March 2012, 08:10 PM

Figured I would post up a Composite:

Daimler Conquest

I noticed that these work really well for bringing out the detail you want on a car and the whole auto...

Side note, need to slow down on the editing, going to have to save this as psd and re edit....

Thanks
Ryo

**Ryogenetic** · 3rd April 2012, 12:22 AM

Porsche Handle:

Thanks
Ryo

**Ryogenetic** · 3rd April 2012, 08:19 PM

I have been on an absolute blitz with the details, I got some good feedback from the owner on this set of his Porsche. I may have stumbled on to something, for all of these there was something that the owner modified or installed. I think that he likes them because I have captured those modifications. If you are reading this please give me some feedback about what you think of the following images.

These images are very selective edits, most are done with a black and white with color selectively masked back in. I was shooting in very poor light, but I think that it pushed my edits to where they are.

**Donald** · 3rd April 2012, 08:25 PM

Originally Posted by Ryogenetic

I got some good feedback from the owner on this set of his Porsche.

For a shoot such as this, that is the most important feedback of all. Well done, Ryo.

I see these are more technical than artistic images (sorry, if that's not what was intended). And give that is so, (if it is), getting the detail clear is what it's got to be about and you have, in my view, done that very well. These are going to appeal to the enthusiast and he/she is going to want to see the detail reproduced well.