>>7432976I’ve been shooting cars for coming up on five years now, and I love seeing others who are interested in it.
I want to offer you some advice that I have learned that I can see in this image.
First off, the composition of the background is good, but you’re shooting at a pretty high F-stop, and it's cloudy out, so you’ve no doubt encountered the issue of which to sacrifice first; aperture, or shutter speed. In this case you went with shutter speed so that you could keep the f-stop high to keep the entire car in focus. The problem with this is that you shot it handheld, and at too slow of a shutter. Even your pulse would push the shot up and down a few pixels, and that seems to have happened here. It's not wildly apparent in the midground bricks, but those telephone pole wires are ghosty, and the area where the windows meet the brick are soft. Slam your cam on a tripod and maybe even use an external shutter button so you don’t even have to wobble the camera while pressing it.
Second, angle that car harsher. I know those headlights are sexy, but the back wheels mush right into the back of the car, and it ends up making the entire car look short. Either give it the business and go full frontal, or give it a nice 45 degree turn and go from there.
Last: If you have lightroom or whatever, grab those purples in HSL and desaturate them. The fringing of purple on the borders of the highlighted areas is from overexposure in sunlight. This pushes ultraviolet light into the sensor, but because humans cant see UV the camera displays it as purple.
I checked out your FB (not to be creepy), and your shots are generally dope, albeit have some of the same artifacts that I pointed out here. In the same album you have the car at a cleaner angle, which I creepily added as my photo here. But the 35mm you’re using is a good one, and with just a few tricks you are well on your way to making it.
