Autoshite photography thread.

[Cavcraft]

 

 

 

 

 

[Pillock]

Different car, same ideas

 

 

 

(Stoke-on-Trent car show, June last year)

[Guest Len H]

Any pictures of the whole car?

[Guest]

Any pictures of the whole car?

 

Haven't you got a whole other forum to be filling?

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Dunno if you remember that chap who posted up on Retro-Rides during the scrappage scheme? He got a proper studio effect by draping a shower curtain over the windows! Astonishingly successful.

 

Oh my, that's good. Did you save any other pictures?

[Guest]

Some great work going on here. Does anyone have any tips for getting a decent interior shot? Any suggestions? I'm talking about a bright, good-looking 'practical' photo like, not an arty one, or at least not one that looks obviously arty.

 

I shall experiment in the next few days for you, O Testes. I reckon some kind of off frame lighting and a wide angle lens might be the ticket. And folding one's seats down flat to increase the power to weight ratio (drier skip wanker).

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Dunno if you remember that chap who posted up on Retro-Rides during the scrappage scheme? He got a proper studio effect by draping a shower curtain over the windows! Astonishingly successful.

 

Oh my, that's good. Did you save any other pictures?

 

Yo, heres the thread:

 

http://retrorides.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=70843&page=2

[Guest Len H]

 

Seats folded down is the way to go for interior shots. Maybe stick a couple of cheap torches in the foot wells.

[tonedepear]

9k is my favourite instrument cluster in the dark, ever.

[Guest]

 

Seats folded down is the way to go for interior shots. Maybe stick a couple of cheap torches in the foot wells.

 

I shall get some suitable 9000 Carlsson shots when SCTSH_ANDY's is cleaned and working again.

[Pete-M]

I shall get some suitable 9000 Carlsson shots when SCTSH_ANDY's is cleaned and working again.

 

Will there still be an Internet?

[mattblack]

This was taken with the 'red' setting on the camera, I think it give a 70's photo look. The lack of wheelie bins, satelite dishes ect in the background was pure chance!

 

 

And anther one done with Tintii:

 

[Guest]

Matt, those shots are boss - but you can easily get the same effect by adjusting the colour balance in GIMP. Better off just to take a standard shot in colour so you have every possible option available when you come to edit.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Yo, heres the thread:

 

http://retrorides.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=70843&page=2

Thx! They're great photos, although they brought back that gloomy scrappage feeling.

[dollywobbler]

 

Seats folded down is the way to go for interior shots. Maybe stick a couple of cheap torches in the foot wells.

 

Rule number one. Get the steering wheel straight!

 

Seats down can be good. I sometimes lower the passenger one and shoot from the LH rear door.

[Cavcraft]

Matt, fantastic pictures they look superb. As you said without modern items in the photographs it really sets it off and looks very 'seventies'.

[Jon]

Hey Mr. B, I think the trick to most doctor-style photography is to really take your time and make sure everything is perfect, such as steering wheel straight, carpets immaculately hoovered etc. etc. Unlike the shot of my old AX GT below:

 

 

See if you can spot an AX achilles heel on the left hand side of the interior. I only wanted £225 ono for it at the time though!

 

This one of our 9000 taken about a year later actually saw my standard slipping. 5/10 if I'm being kind.

 

Wide angle lenses do help but don't go overboard, as distortion makes things look pretty bad.

 

 

I liked this shot for the (lucky) use of natural light which was coming in from the roof panels. I hadn't had my digital SLR very long at this point, hence why the photo itself is a bit soft and I probably could've edited the colours a bit better. Plus tractors aren't very interesting.

 

 

 

I'd just managed to get the Imp back on the road after 5 years laid up and it was used as my wedding car 6 days later. This victory photo makes it look much better than it is (or was, as M'coli will no doubt confirm).

 

 

Having the front wheels turned adds a bit of interest and seems widely used in promotional photos, though possibly not on full lock. Still could've done with getting rid of the crap in front of the back window though and the godawful grow-house behind it.

 

I've no idea how I managed to acheive such sharp focus in the foreground and pleasing soft focus elsewhere, as I wasn't trying to get this effect. Still very happy with the result, though there's a fair bit of lens distortion (see the MGB) from using the wide angle lens on too wide a setting.

 

 

One last tip is to invest in filters, as they really make all the difference in many situations, especially bright light. The one I used here is graduated softly and was held in place while I took the shot, as I don't have a filter holder (yet). The back wheel looks a bit JDMDRIFTYO but actually I'm parked on a bit of a dip, so details like this can spoil things a bit.

 

On cameras with smaller lenses, sunglasses in front of the lens may give an interesting effect, especially the massive windscreen-like efforts that some women wear. Also play around with making the flash on your camera a bit softer, like a bit of tracing paper in front of it or something. It won't be as powerful but that's not always what's required.

[mattblack]

Some from a small show/tractor run that we went to today...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[trigger]

I popped out eariler and took some time photos of the 'Scort, I'm still playing with them but this one's came out good.

 

IMG_8099 copy by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

[dollywobbler]

Liking those Matt.

 

Trig - that Escort shot's great. The tones make that feel like a really old photo!

[RedSparrow]

Hey mattblack, what had the 'autronic' sticker on it out of interest?

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

I had a go at 'shower curtain studio' (well, bedsheet studio). It came out okay considering all I had to light it with was a table lamp with the shade removed, waved about to avoid shadows (I think the two white spots are me getting in my own way with the bare bulb).

 

[trigger]

That looks really effective Peter, I must try that, He's a couple more I've done today, apologise that they are all of the Escort.

 

1984 Ford Escort 1.3L Mk3 by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

 

1984 Ford Escort 1.3L Mk3 by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

 

1984 Ford Escort 1.3L Mk3 by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

 

1984 Ford Escort 1.3L Mk3 by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

[Cavcraft]

Cool stuff! How did you get the sort of 'cartoon' effect please Trig?

[myglaren]

 

I used to do that professionally in the 70's. Special graphic arts film and process, lots of hard work for the intermediate stages, all done from black and white negatives, usually 4x5".

End result cost a fortune and was rarely predictable.

May still have some transparencies kicking around.

[dollywobbler]

Trig - the sepia one may benefit from tweaking the contrast up a little - makes the darker bits darker and gives it all a bit more definition. Love how this thread has got people in the creative mood though - nice work Cavette!

[mattblack]

Hey mattblack, what had the 'autronic' sticker on it out of interest?

 

A Massey-Ferguson tractor. Some sort of auto transmission I belive.

[Cavcraft]

Hey Ian, cheers but this thread would be sod all without people like yourself helping and the classy pictures people have posted so far.

 

Todays efforts, pretending to be posh...

 

[Guest]

Last picture is class Billy. Watanabe_father had a Mk3 Cavalier as a company car (but with the first-gen nose). It was an 1800 CIH and could not be killed. It was the same colour as yours, or very close to it. DVLA check says its well dead. That's because an Artic twatted it from behind on the M62 two weeks after a mate bought it from my Dad. He'd bought it cheap from the gas board because it never seemed to go wrong.

 

Matey got out in one piece as the driver's door still opened. When the recovery team came to sweep it all up (car and lorry had smashed into the hard shoulder armco) the low loader driver found the car still started and was able to drag itself on to the wagon with the front stoved in and the back end of the car almost completely flattened. I suspect that had it survived unscathed and been entered into a banger race, it would have shit on all and sundry and tried to take on several HIAB trucks just to make a point.

 

I think that perhaps it was aware of how chronically unreliable it was when new, and was trying to make amends right up to the end. The 130,000 faultless miles that preceded the accident had sort of patched things up, I have to say.

[Justin Case]

I'm very impressed with the photography and the stunning effects shown in this thread, especially as my own very modest efforts are usually spoilt by someone wandering into the shot just when I think that I have a reasonable composition set up