Hi Everyone

With the lockdown seriously effecting photography commissions at the moment, I thought this would be a good time to start a new Tips for Photography today.

As a professional event and corporate photographer operating in Scotland, I have undertaken many commissions which involved photographing cars, from supercar events, to vintage cars and scrapyard and general car photos as part of my infrared in Scotland project.  I thought this would be a good time to give you some tips on photographing cars.  To keep it simple I will concentrate on outdoor photos without any flash or artificial light and I promise not to get too technical.  So here we go:

1. Its all about the weather, stormy skies, or sunny days with with blue skies and cloud are ideal, especially for infrared photography

2. Dont be frightened to get in close when shooting a stationary vehicle

3. Keep an eye out for interesting close up detail, especially for vintage and scrap cars

4. Its not always the supercars that are best to photograph, scrap cars and old wrecks often have bags of character

5. Vary your angle, get down low if possible and include interesting backdrops ie trees, sky etc, otherwise, avoid clutter in the backround

6. Use a tripod if you want good depth of field

7. Cars are a great way to showcase other genres such as architecture, weddings, urban photography etc

8. Use people in the photo if relevant ie a driver or someone behind the story of the car

9. Shoot through the window, sometimes the interior of the cars can be interesting

10. If shooting moving vehicles, change your angle, get down low and high and pan your photos now and again to get some motion blur

Hope this helps.

Stay safe.

Until next time

Colin

www.colinwqrightphotography.co.uk

www.edinburghphotographer.com