Lightning Shots (Ford)

love the smoke in the first one!! in 2 n 3, is that a real pan shot or a blur shot on PS? great pic! When I come to the US, I want to drive that beast!

#1. There's a lot of foreground and background there that aren't really doing anything for your subject. I would have liked to have seen the truck more from the side and cropped in tighter in the frame.
#2. Nice.
#3. Not crazy about the angle, but that's a matter of personal style. Again there's a little more foreground than necessary; I wouldn't have placed the truck in the center of the frame, but more towards the bottom.

My 2¢

Mostly done in camera, exxagerated in photoshop. Speed limits and road quality prohibited a clean blur shot in this case. Basically if you can get a decent blur from the camera, its 100 times easier to make it look better in photoshop than if you dont get motion at all, and the wheels are impossible.

#1- Point well taken. Only printing 8x12, so I will definatly crop.
#2- Thanks
#3- The angle isnt what I usually go for, but I decided to break out of the shell. I'm at that point now (at least I feel) that most of my critiques are just getting "nice job". That (to me) mean's either the person things I cant take critique, or I'm not advancing, but rather doing what's always been done, and "formula photography" or going off what's been proven OK. The foreground was there for the owner of the truck, I agree with you on that, but the angle+ foreground give you that race feeling like you're going around a turn I think.

Thanks for the honest critique.