Enjoy Guys. Any photography tips appreciated :thmsup:
Camera: Nikon D80
Lens: Nikkor 50mm f/1.8D & Nikkor 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6
Location: San Francisco State University/Oracle Arena

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Please note I do not mean to offend you in any way, my criticism could be harsh. Sweet 8th gen sedan.

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Great shot, seems like the car is fading into the darkness.

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Not sure where your focus is on this one.

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Not sure if you intended the curb to be in focus, I would have assumed that you would have focused on the car or even the bushes and used the same aperture.

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Learn to move, you have tons of degrees of motion, that trash can in the background ruins the photo. You could have at least cropped it.

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Remove the handbag/bag from the hood next time... Otherwise beautiful shots.

I should shoot a roll or two of my car on some nice B/W film and take my digital along for a nice photoshoot.

Well, it does not seem appropriate to have a photo of a tripod with background diffused, but your last shots of your car, look great. Perhaps you could do advertising photos for HONDA. Since you are in Bay Area, perhaps some Bullet type shots of your car going down some of those famous SF hills, like Steve McQueen. That type of photo might sell cars. Your second to last photo of drivers side, shows your car fit and finish off well. Best MOD is a highly reflective surface after a good waxing. YOU have it. Good job. Regards

Richard

KaliKal:
Thanks. Yea i'm still trying to learn to focus on big targets correctly, for example the picture of the curb, bush, and car. I should be photoshopping/crop the pictures a bit more to finish it off. But the picture in the garage, i was trying to focus on the HID cut off line. Its hard to move around on a 50 mm fixed lens btw. Oh and i honestly forgot that the handbag was even on the car. lol. Again thanks for the comments/criticism i don't see that they are harsh at all.

Regard to searich07:
The photo with the tripod and the blurry background was done on purpose. And thank you for the compliment.

To both:
My next goal is to take some rolling shots going through the Bay Bridge tunnel and and some on the actual bridge. Do you have any advice as to how to do that? i know you slow the shutter but anything else?:notworthy
And
Do you guys know how to minimize that little green flare?
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General comments:

The simpler the better and more effective. Pick your subject for every shot and develop around that subject alone. "Push" the limits on aperture and shutter to enhance the subject. Another way of putting it: Develop and use control over your depth of field. The tripod shot for instance, tells immediately what the subject is. Next would be to tell why it's there. Imagine that same shot with just the tripod with a very out of focus background...or even plain white in back...now it's implies it's there to fill in that "space" as a tool.
- If something distracts from the subject, take measures to make it go away. Change position, adjust depth of field, etc. as mentioned for the handbag, trash can, etc.
- Once you get more accustomed to isolating your subject, use the depth of field and framing/position to illustrate its relationship to its surroundings. For instance on the tripod shot, you could make it slightly out of focus, put a specific subject (car, person, etc) just behind it in shallow focus. Now the tripod is telling us why it's there.

Just ideas...you can reveal tremendous amounts of feeling and information by the way you frame your subject and it relationship to its surroundings. Push to extremes with position and settings and explore what comes back. You'll find a signature of traits that you appreciate. With the endless amount of potential shooting images in digital...go out, have fun, and shoot, shoot, shoot! (If I could have about five lifetimes with a camera in hand, it still wouldn't come close to all the images I want to work to translate.)

Yea i'm still trying to learn to focus on big targets correctly, for example the picture of the curb, bush, and car.
2 words: manual focus.

To both:
My next goal is to take some rolling shots going through the Bay Bridge tunnel and and some on the actual bridge. Do you have any advice as to how to do that? i know you slow the shutter but anything else?:notworthy
And
Do you guys know how to minimize that little green flare?
http://i710.photobucket.com/albums/ww108/dennisho18/DSC_2874.jpg

I think you'll need a small aperture, and that would exaggerate your slow shutter speed. Best thing to do is expiriment, I've gotten some rediclous shots that I wouldn't have gotten if i've haven't tried. I've actually been wanting to get some rolling shots done, but none of my friends are game. Another fun one might be the Golden Gate. There's also plenty of tunnels and they all have different lighting, like the Caldecott, Webster, and Waldorf tunnels.

Hmm for that green flare, there's not much you could do in camera except physically move. Not sure how to edit that in photoshop.