My new car!! Critique this photo please...

I took this last night. It is of my Audi S4 Avant (a station wagon with a sport suspension, big brakes, and a pair of turbochargers strapped to the motor).

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I think the nose of the car to the front would have suited better, but I feel as though the building is competing with the subject!

Mid Life Crisis

Too many reflections of light on the sides too.

drdiesel1 wrote in post #11436982
Mid Life Crisis

Too many reflections of light on the sides too.

Well, if I were going through a mid-life crisis, a station wagon surely wouldn't be on my list (no matter how many turbos it had)...

Regarding the pic...not much car in the image, and too much of everything else. Perhaps a different angle, parking lights turned on, and maybe a bit earlier in the evening. Ditto the reflections comment. Also, try not to crop it so close to the edge of the frame. Take a look in the 'Transportation' forum for more ideas on shooting cars...

drdiesel1 wrote in post #11436982
Mid Life Crisis

Hahaha. They say 27 is the new 38.

I do agree that the building is very strongly competing with the car (probably overpowering it)

I hope to return to this spot one day. Everything was just right (even the moon was up at 5:30pm!). My biggest problem was that the camera was about 6 inches off of the ground in a dirty street, so i couldn't really get down there to really ensure I would get the details correct.

I think its better than nothing.

Oh, and BTW, this is actually 3 exposures merged together in CS3. Im not a fan of most HDR as i think it is overly abused, but i think this was a good candidate for it.

Here are the 3 shots:

Sadly the building looks far more interesting than Europe's finest estate car.

I too would like to see it from the front quarter angle with wheels turned slightly and if possible a bit more distance in between building and car.

Have you taken the chrome mirrors off ?

In retrospect, it appears the building overpowered the subject

The camera was only 4 inches off of the wet ground so I had to kind of approximate the composition

And on the B5 generation, only the RS4 received the brushed aluminum mirror covers The B6 generation of S4s would get those mirror (2004-2006 and all subsequent generations).