Vehicle Interiors - Critique Please

The one thing I noticed immediately is that a nice clean windshield would help. Next time, I'll take the cars to a car wash first.

1. Remos GX

s1a1om wrote in post #18221759
The one thing I noticed immediately is that a nice clean windshield would help. Next time, I'll take the cars to a car wash first.

4. Acura TSX - stopped.

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Generally, they look pretty good to me except for the last one. In that one, the sunlight makes the contrast is a little high, the windshield is distracting, & I'd like to see the key on to light up the gauges & radio.
And if these were for a client, they would probably not want to see scenery in the mirrors & through the windshield.

Are these HDR? They seem a bit over processed to me. But if this is your style thats great. I find the 'look' distracting, and I'm not focused on the interior, but more the outside and the processing/effect itself.

I like the motion one the best, but I'd do two exposures, one exposure on the interior, resting, for sharpness, then take a picture in motion, exposing for the exterior, and blend the two. I'd still leave the window view slightly over exposed, but not extreme.

1 - yeah, they overprocessed so much, it makes the eyes bleed.

2. Distortion is rarely accepted in motor/car photography. I cannot say, I did much myself, but I have worked on A TON of motor images as photoshop guy for magazines, retouching some top car photog's work. The value is in the detail and the sleek. Things should be clean, understandable and only moderately distorted, if an image asks to. Also clean all dust, dirt and whatnot. Of course, you can go here and put it all on your artistic vision, but in that case... I dunno. It seems just too much without purpose :]

p.s. hope this comment will not get deleted, because I said something bad about above photographs... all I said that time was that people with photoshoped wings on look stupid...

s1a1om wrote in post #18221759
2. Subaru Outback

I really like this one. The HDR-ish style doesn't bother me at all.

All of them are too hdr for my taste but the last one is just plain overcooked

Thanks for all the input guys. It gives me things to think about for my next attempts.