Nissan 350Z, 240SX, 510, Old School GT-R

[Jackson Pennell]

Last thread for a while, sorry about the post whoring, I've had all of these pictures for about 4 months now just sitting on my harddrive. Please keep up the agressive critique.

Don't feel obligated to critique them all if you don't feel like it, critique whatever ones you feel like dissecting.

1)http://www.team-blend.net/jacksonphoto/jvphotos14a.jpg
2)http://www.team-blend.net/jacksonphoto/jvphotos14b.jpg
3)http://www.team-blend.net/jacksonphoto/jvphotos14c.jpg
4)http://www.team-blend.net/jacksonphoto/jvphoto510b.jpg
5)http://www.team-blend.net/jacksonphoto/jvphoto510c.jpg
6)http://www.team-blend.net/jacksonphoto/jvphotoskylinea.jpg
7)http://www.team-blend.net/jacksonphoto/jvphotoskylineb.jpg
8)http://www.team-blend.net/jacksonphoto/jvphoto350za.jpg
9)http://www.team-blend.net/jacksonphoto/jvphoto350zb.jpg

EDIT: wow, I oversharped a few sorry.

Thanks,
-Jackson

[Keith Schoeler]

Any chance of putting me in contact with the owner of the KPGC110? I assume that's stateside, right? Curious if he got it through Canada or any of the logistics. I'm definitely jealous of your opportunity to shoot it. ;)

Regarding the photos... I'd say overall you need to watch the backgrounds intersecting with the lines of the car. Lots of conflict there. I like the first location for the S14, just needs a better angle to work with/around the fence.

[Jacob Leveton]

did you purposely go for the cookie cutter look? all of the car angles look almost exactly the same... same 3/4 shot with the wheels turned. That seems to be your 'safe' shot. Push yourself to get more creative.

what is the difference between the first 2 shots? other than you cropped the lights and cranes in the background in the second one. If you shot it from an ever-so-slightly higher angle, you'd have seperation between the car and the black bench-like thingys in there, I think that would help your shot out.

I like the train location a lot. Good call. Again, get more creative. different angles... shallower DOF... etc.

for the 510 - don't like either shot. they both look really cluttered and there isn't much working together as far as backdrops and the car.

the other datsun - not a good candidate for the tilted angle. Garages / structures like that which have a lot of vertical definition will just look 'tilted' instead of stylishly angled. Also, i would have shot from 3-5 steps to your right so that the structure takes up the entire background and not the carport / overhang thingy and the heavy machinery on the right.

350z - good shot from an exposure and framing standpoint, but bad background. Doesn't get a 2nd look from me.

make sense?

[Jackson Pennell]

perfect sense, I'll make sure to implement them in my future shoots.


I hadn't noticed the "cookie cutter syndrome" since you guys pointed it out, something I definatley need to work on, it's weird because now that I think of it, I really cant think of any other angles I shoot anymore.

You just saved me from getting stuck in a rut bad.