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July 14, 2010
Awesome Photo Contest: Mirror Photography
By Jen Dunnaway
Editor
The duPont Registry is running a contest involving one of our favorite kinds of automotive photography: mirror shots! Check out the entries on their Facebook page, and submit your favorite photos there through July 19th involving a car and any reflective surface. Don’t forget to link back to your ride page!
March 11, 2010
Giant White-Trash “Where’s Waldo?” Panorama
By Jen Dunnaway
Editor
My friend Jim calls this a shot an “R-rated, ski-bum ghetto-white-trash version of Where’s Waldo.” Click here here to see the complete, gigantically blown-up 12mb panorama that reveals every detail of every vehicle on the lot, as well as a variety of characters–Jim claims there’s an abandoned child, a topless woman, and a guy taking a piss, but I’m pretty sure he’s just trying to make you look. I spied a vintage Airstream, a box of Coors Light, something that looked like an inflatable date left out in the rain for a few days, and Jim’s own moldering 318-powered RV, a dead ringer for the mobile meth lab I photographed on Aurora a few weeks back. Anyway, it’s your turn: have at it!
October 6, 2009
Three Simple Tips to Better Photos
desert-motors.com
While part natural ability, photography, like many things, is largely knowledge and persistence. In this case, natural ability is the photographer’s artistic vision and eye: their ability to look at objects and a scene and compose them in a way that is interesting and appealing. While lucky few are born with this ability, fortunately for the rest of us, most of it can be learned and much of it comes with experience. However, compositional understanding isn’t the only important knowledge for a photographer. Understanding how the camera’s settings, the environment’s lighting and any number of other things will affect a shot is equally important. The other most important part of the puzzle is persistence: simply getting out there, trying new things and taking photos. The number of photos I’ve taken over the past several years is well into six digits and I’m still learning new things and improving my abilities almost every time I get the camera out. If I didn’t feel like I was, I would stop taking photos.
Regardless of the situation, subject or what you’re shooting with, there are a number of often overlooked, simple things that can drastically improve your photos. The three of these that I address in this article and how they directly apply to automotive photography are: the rule of thirds, being aware of your background and varying your photo height. Check out the full article along with examples of these tips in practice and more in Desert-Motors Magazine.
August 3, 2009
Automotive Photography is a *&^%$
By Alex Vickers
Katakuna
This is why I don’t do event coverage for CarDomain, I suck at taking pictures of cars. I’ve got a thing for photography, but anytime it involves a car, the angles always come off wrong, so I decided to park my mother’s Saturn in the yard and practice. I used a file photo of a Subaru WRX STI as an example of something to shoot for, and worked with what I had. I personally think some of them are alright, what’s your opinion?
May 4, 2009
JDM: Stories From Japan Coming Up
By Steve Neill
Steve Neill
I’ve just worked out an awesome deal with a photographer friend of mine, and I’m going to be starting a new series of articles not just about cars from Japan, but about some of the nicest and most beautiful landmarks in and around Tokyo. We’ll visit Shibuya in an R34 GT-R, check out the mountains in and around Tokyo in a Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution, and see all sorts of other unique areas from the general viewpoint of a JDM historian. My good friend Colin is to thank for all the wonderful pictures that will be provided. Here’s a hint of what is to come.
April 29, 2009
Cool Junk In The Desert
By Jen Dunnaway
Editor
Patrick Dempsey (no relation to the actor) spends his time cruising the California-Nevada desert on his dirt bike, photographing piles of abandoned junk he finds off backroads and around abandoned mines. The pictures are pretty cool, though Dempsey has become convinced that the often burned and bullet-riddled hulks he finds–along with similarly-dilapidated mattresses, toilets, washing machines, and other detritus–are in fact the sacred offerings of a clandestine American Indian religion. More junk below the jump, and check out the full image series and accompanying weird essay here.
January 30, 2009
Nostalgic Drag Racing Photos from the 70s
By Rob Einaudi
Editor-in-Chief
Dave Milcarek has been photographing drag racing since the mid-70s. Check out his nostalgic photos from the 70s. He’s also got tons of recent pics, too!
January 12, 2009
Photos are fun…Nikon?
Weston Henderson
A couple of guys over here at CarDomain picked up some new Nikon DSLR’s over the holidays and we’ve been snapping photos like crazy. Its amazing how much of a difference there is between SLR and point and shoot pictures. While nature scenes and the like look a whole lot different, the difference is night and day when it comes to automotive photography. You can control so much more of the environment and create some sick effects.
January 2, 2009
HDR Charger
By Rob Einaudi
Editor-in-Chief
I don’t know much about photography, but I know what I like, and I really like this HDR image of a ’68 Charger taken by my Moparts buddy Mark Brooks in Sacramento. According to Mark, “HDR Images are created by taking several photos of the same exact scene, using the same f-stop, but bracketing the images with different exposure values. Then, the images are combined in a program like Photomatix, so that a broader tonal range can be seen.” You can see a bunch more of his HDR car pics after the jump, or check our all his stuff at flickr.
August 17, 2008
Cool Photo of a Cool Car
By Rob Einaudi
Editor-in-Chief
Darrell has a very nicely modded Mustang, and he definitely knows how to take a photo. Be sure to check out his ride page for the full specs and a ton more awesome pics.
