what do i gotta do to take pics like these

hey guys i was wondering what do i gotta do to take pics like these i got a canon xs please help.

picture taken by my friend Joneysan from society.com

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Buy a telephoto and stop it down. Thats the quick answer.

200mm @ f/8

What is it about the picture that you like but cannot recreate?

krb wrote in post #11687122
What is it about the picture that you like but cannot recreate?

My guess was the DOF, but I might be wrong, in which case I digress....

first it looks so clean and the colors are so out there like looks perfect
this is a pic i took looks like ****

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Main difference is that he is shooting in a shady area with natural light so it's "soft" with no harsh shadows and no specular highlights, not a garage where you've got different colored lights and all of them are casting harsh shadows.

LiberationFrequency wrote in post #11687064
Buy a telephoto and stop it down. Thats the quick answer.

200mm @ f/8

how does the telephoto lens help making it look like this

The longer lens makes it easier to have a narrow depth of field. Notice how the car is in focus but the grass that is closer to the camera and the buildings in the background are all blurry and out of focus.

It also gives a more "flat" perspective since you will be standing farther away from the car when you use it.

Telephoto compression is that look you get from telephotos where both the foreground and the background are OOF and you get that isolation effect.

Besides what the guys have said, you have seen this, right?

A few Car Lighting Tips - Updated

lramirezphotography wrote in post #11687484
how does the telephoto lens help making it look like this

The perspective effect. Contrary to popular belief the depth of field doesn't change a significant amount because you have to step back which reduces magnification and undoes the effect - so neither does the blurring of the background - but the size of the objects in the background increases and makes them less distracting.

The reason your photos don't look like the one you want to emulate is that you're using a wide angle (ish) lens close up in a small environment. And the poor lighting at the location is doing you no favours.
You need to find somewhere that you can stand a good distance back with a telephoto lens and have a long distance between the car and any objects in the background.

To piggy back with others have said, use a telephoto wide open ... AND take it from a low angle. The photo of the OP, looks as if the photographer was squatting or laying on the ground.

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BlindGuyTakingPictures wrote in post #11708265
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x2 Good advice!

What lenses do you have? Use your longest focal length and an aperture that will give you just enough DOF for the size of the car, but nothing more. And +1 on the getting lower. I rarely take a shot from normal eye level.