Boat tail racer

[cbrunberg]

Hey does this fit in this category?

[lvolkjr]

It gets you from point a to point b. It's transportation

[cbrunberg]

My friend builds hot rods and restores these antique pedal cars too.

[Lilikoi the cat]

Carl,
Those look neat, try some more.
Pick a nice background and bring the camera level to just below the wheel top or just around the height the the top of the steering wheel.
Look at Isam250 here and his car shots

[cbrunberg]

I had this one already. I have more I can upload. I'm building a trailer for this car. It gets pulled by a '53 GMC pick up truck...pedal car...It's bright red. I'll take pics when they are done. He displays these and quite a few more at the auto-rama.

[cbrunberg]

[Lilikoi the cat]

Exactly! Background is uniform and not distracting. A little light off of the sky for highlights and the underside of the car looks smooth.

Boy, you are quick. Keep sneaking in those photos before I reply :-)

[lvolkjr]

That last one looks blueish compared to the one just above it. I believe you said you are using Lightroom, I'm not familiar with that software. Photoshop has a temperature adjustment in the Camera Raw software that comes in Photoshop, if you have that try to make it warmer. What I mean by that, if there is a slider for the temperature the colder side should go down to 2000 and the warmer side should go up to 50,000. You should play with it to see the difference and find what makes you happy with the photo.

I'm sure Kevin or Roger would know where to find that control, if it exists. They might have another technique to acquire the same results.

Please ask any follow up questions if I have made this confusing or if I missed anything.

[lvolkjr]

Here is the adjustment I made to it.
Attachment 1178

[Lilikoi the cat]

Yup, that's it. You can also try using the eyedropper to click on a white/grey object to quickly adjust the white balance. It is the same in LR and CS as are quite a few items I think.
If you plan on getting LR/CS or any Adobe product and have a kid in school or are going then you can get the student educational discount which knocks off quite a bit on the price. ~40%+?? I think the full CS4 suite was ~$400 vs the $1k

[lvolkjr]

Originally Posted by Lilikoi the cat

Yup, that's it. You can also try using the eyedropper to click on a white/grey object to quickly adjust the white balance.

I just wanted to add one thing, your looking for something that is 18% gray.
Here is an article on it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_card

[windrivermaiden]

I'd pull the whole kit and kaboodle away from the garage door a bit, get down on the ground or near to it put on a longer lens if you have one and make some size relationship to that door by compressing the DOF. Right now you know it is a big car garage...and unless there is something to make that interesting...like the little bitty car longing to be a big car...it doesn't read as well as if you were to make that background and the drive surface more to scale to the little car.

As long as you are telling the story...get the story going, Where does this little car live? what's he doing? anything in the photo needs to be part of the story.

Its crying to go nostalgic...of course...just my never to be humble....

[cbrunberg]

Windy thanks. These were impromptu pics. I'll try your staging the scene when the weather clears up.

Thanks for all the suggestions everyone. I'll play with that eye dropper and yes it was blue cause the WB was wrong. The colors are pearl blue and pearl white I didn't post this one to flickr until yesterday. I only brought it in for the angle suggested. I was being lazy/expedient.