You guys/gals are the best! This is exactly what I needed. I took a little time to go through all the pictures I had taken then and tried to figure out if I had snapped off a better one. I'm happy to say that I can see a LOT of very obvious, amateur mistakes in these (but that's fine, I'm still very amateur, but hopefully identifying some things I did/do wrong will help me to improve). Anyway, here's another that I ended up with that I think shows some promise, but I was unhappy with how I didn't get down low to get a good, dramatic shot. It looks really bland.
I'm pretty sure I'm only supposed to put up one critique shot here, but this at least shows off the actual car itself a bit better. Don't feel obligated to critique this one.
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Originally Posted by Sterling
I think I might tone down the saturation of the brick wall. The car is the star, not the bricks.
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That makes sense to me. I'm colorblind, so saturation can sometimes come out really weird and I don't even notice it. Most of the time, I don't modify it from the original capture unless I convert to black&white, and this wall is exactly how the camera saw it.
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Originally Posted by mike1187
I think I would like to see a bit more of the right side of the car. Not much, but just enough to show that the entire car is trashed.
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Totally agree, see the image above
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Originally Posted by navcom
I'm hoping this wasn't the picture you sent to the insurance company!! 
(couldn't resist!...back to seriousness)...I agree with the comment that you need to see more of the car. A head-on shot kind of leaves the car looking 2-D. Maybe get lower to the ground at a 45 degree angle to the front-right corner of the car (looking straight at the turned tire)? |
I have no idea whose car it was, how it actually ended up there, or what kind of theft/shenanigans may have happened shortly before it ended up there ... but I love the idea of lining up to the broken wheel instead of the horizon line. Unfortunately, I couldn't find any that I took along those lines. You have a better eye for shots than I do/did. I came pretty close, but ended up taking a really boring, ho-hum picture of that very wheel:
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Originally Posted by APAPHOTO
Go black and white with a nice vignette
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But that's my go-to! I'm trying to break away from that, because it seems like it ALWAYS works.