Any Of These Pics Calendar-Worthy?

[blueskana]

If its right at your back the car's lines and color will be washed out and flat. It will be hard to not overexpose and you'll get more hot spots where the light is basically shining directly off of the paint into the lens. Off to one side or the other will allow you to pick up on the shape/lines and get rid of some of the glare. Fill-flash is especially usefull if the light is behind the subject and/or its a bright day. It won't take much light from the flash to catch and highlight off of the cars paint. Depending on how strong your flash is will dictate how far away you can be and get the desired effect. I would use a tripod as well, even with plenty of light. Depending on how limited your exposure range is, some camera shake, indescernable to you, may be effecting clarity/sharpness.
Best of luck, and nice car.

[Kaotic Lazagna]

Originally Posted by blueskana

If its right at your back the car's lines and color will be washed out and flat. It will be hard to not overexpose and you'll get more hot spots where the light is basically shining directly off of the paint into the lens. Off to one side or the other will allow you to pick up on the shape/lines and get rid of some of the glare. Fill-flash is especially usefull if the light is behind the subject and/or its a bright day. It won't take much light from the flash to catch and highlight off of the cars paint. Depending on how strong your flash is will dictate how far away you can be and get the desired effect. I would use a tripod as well, even with plenty of light. Depending on how limited your exposure range is, some camera shake, indescernable to you, may be effecting clarity/sharpness.
Best of luck, and nice car.

hahaha, i only have a table top tripod. so that's why i switched from using that to just holding it. yeah, it's impossible to have a clear cut shot when you're holding the camera. hmmm, i think i'll play around with the location of the sun on my next photoshoot. thanks for the pointers and comments.

[Kaotic Lazagna]

Originally Posted by PK198105

thats a great explantion blueskana gave you, if the sun is behind you then there is no need for fill in flash.also what you could try put a polarizing filter on your lens and you will be surprised at the awsome effects.if you dont have a filter use your sunglasses in front of the lens

hahaha, the lens on my friend's camera is not a telescopic lens. the filter must be a stick on and pretty small in diameter. hahaha. but yeah, i played around with photo/lens filters when i had photo class back in the day.