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Picture taking advice?

My 240 on the road

I think i made every single mistake pointed out in this thread but i still think it looks cool :-P

I took in the middle of nowhere between Chile and Argentina.

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I've got some old instant camera photos that I have tried to scan, but they came out real grainy. What is the trick to doing a better job? How much resolution should i use and what size should the picture be to post on this forum through Photo Bucket or is it just trial and lots of error? I have no negatives. How about just taking another picture of the photo with a digital camera?
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Here is a digital photo of a picture, much better than scanning.
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This was actually done in total darkness. I did a 15 second exposure and ran around with a manual flash "painting" the car. I did this with a point and shoot too.



 
here is a tip, try to leave off background objects out of the picture.

in this one the blue barrel ruins it. Also polarisation filter helps a lot when taken pics of a car and in other situations.
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This picture is taken with polarisation filter
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also small aparature can help you, leaving the background more out of focus.
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Im trying to take cool pics. Sometimes I've got some luck :lol:

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Here focus is in the ground, looks nice, but didn't got what I wanted.
 
Opinions are like _______.

I think i made every single mistake pointed out in this thread but i still think it looks cool :-P

I took in the middle of nowhere between Chile and Argentina.

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You think your picture looks cool because it is! While you have not made the car the subject, like most people are giving advice for, the narrative (sorry, I'm an art major) is great. You are showing the viewer a piece of your journey in South America and the landscape is just as important as the vehicle.
Also, you pulled off the road; good move, especially on that blind hill.
I like that the horizon line is just below or at the bottom of the windows. Not sure if you did this on purpose but having the sky in the windows brings the (under-lit) car into the viewer's attention. I do think it would be worth brightening the car a little in Photoshop; just a little.
BTW, who the heck were you gonna call when it broke??
 
Taken with an 8sec exposure:
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...and with a 15sec exposure:
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There was ~20ft between the cars, but the light wouldn't reach the black Golf.
 
Taken with an 8sec exposure:
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...and with a 15sec exposure:
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There was ~20ft between the cars, but the light wouldn't reach the black Golf.
 
Bigger aperture produces less depth of field(Stuff that will be in focus). Smaller little aperture camera eye creates a greater depth of field, but it flattens the image.

This is all basic film photography stuff if you ever took any real film camera classes. Now days with the digital cameras, it still applies if you can adjust your aperture with your digital camera.

There is also the circle of confusion that every lens has...
 
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