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W113 Pagoda SL Group => Photo Gallery => Topic started by: AGT on June 18, 2008, 10:28:09
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Michael's e-mail of today has reminded me that I need to get going on my photographs for the book.
I recall that some time back Douglas (I think) posted a link to an article with some good ideas on taking photographs of motor cars. I have failed to find this post/link using the search function. Can any one recall the post or, better still, pop it back up to the top of our photo Gallery page?
Regards
Andrew
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http://www.hymanltd.com/photographing_classic_cars.htm
http://mattwatkinson.com/tutorial/
http://www.geofflawrence.com/photography_tutorials.htm
...that should keep you busy for a while... ;)
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Keep in mind that ideally you would want a high resolution image or else you may encounter pixelization when it is enlarged. To make it worthwhile, the photos need to be as close to perfect (from a resolution standpoint). You'll never find pixelated professional photobooks out there (unless it was intentional, of course).
Cheers,
Michael
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Here's another site about taking good car photographs...
http://www.cobracountry.com/fototips/
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The current issue of Popular Photography--just this one issue--has a tremendous amount of "how to" suggestions for either better photographs, or how to achieve certain looks. It has sample photos and how to do it. You can even visit their website for some of the information: http://www.popphoto.com/howto/
The subscription, at about $10 per YEAR I think it is money well spent, even if you just take "snapshots" of your family and the various other Kodak moments in your life. You'll probably pay about $5 at the newsstand for each copy but there is a wealth of information available in each one. While I don't know for certain, I'm sure there are similar magazines in the UK and on the Continent in native languages that will help those so inclined to "create images" as opposed to "take pictures".
By the way, I've already received photos from 3 contributors, none of whom are professional photographers. They look great, and will add to make this a fabulous book of everyone's photos.
Mike Lara--Sigman--makes good suggestions. You ought to see HIS photos. But, don't let resolution scare you. Use the equipment you have, I'm sure it will be fine. While my current camera is a 10MP DSLR, my 9-year old daughter has a Nikon L4--an inexpensive, tiny, "point and shoot" 4 MP camera--and this gem has produced publication quality images. So, don't worry about the camera--concern yourself with what you see in the viewfinder and with the lighting and composition!
(http://www.sl113.org/forums/uploaded/mdsalemi/200862093039_2006%2009%2024%20075_edited-1.smaller.jpg)
Taken by a 7 year old (at the time) with her new 4MP point and shoot camera. What you see here has been reduced to 80K in size, so more than 75% of the image has been thrown away! I think you can see that even a small point and shoot camera will allow you to create nice images with extraordinary detail.
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good
I have one taken on my iPhone!