^^ For fucks sake thank you Jim. This is what I was looking for, I know or I damn well hope you know that anything “negative” I say is nothing personal, nor is it in anyway meant to degrade your work. You know I LOVE what you guys do and I constantly want to get together with you two just to get some more experience in and learn a thing or two. You guys are much better at this than I am. Like I said before, it wouldent matter if I was fucking Picaso or just some fuck on the street, its an opinion, not telling them what to do or what they could do better, because I don’t know… I’m not as good as they are, nor do I have the experiences in the different situations they do, I’ve hardly been doing this as long as they have.
Sometimes part of the problem is that I don’t know the situation, I don’t know the vision when your pressing the shutter because I was not there nor was I the one taking the picture. After seeing the original and your explanation, I completely understand it and it makes sense and it works, without that flare it is somewhat boring, Do i still think its a bit distracting? yes… but I do see that if it was not there it would have made for a more “boring” image.
I need to get out and shoot more and get more experiance, I unlike you can only shoot my car so much before I lose interest and motivation to pick up the camera. I need new things to shoot, I need some vision otherwise I don’t even feel like taking my camera out of the backpack. I am very vision oriented when I want to take a picture of something which is why myself im probably never happy with most of the shit I do, because what I see in my head hardly is what makes it to the memory card. Maybe your the same way, I don’t know thats just me. Its why I constantly want to get together with you guys, to learn and to do something new, unfortunately I’m hardly out as much as I was a few y ears ago so I don’t know a lot of people nor do I get to all the events, the past 2-3 shoots I setup fell through for whatever reason…
Anyways thanks for the explanation Jim, really appreciate it
I used and still use my own cars as test subjects, theres no pressure, you can have fun, go where ever, and shoot how ever you want. Before there was a Brochure Truck there was Brochure STI, close to 200 shots, some suck, most are “meh”: 2008 Subaru STi | Flickr
The first shoot I ever did for someone: Chevrolet S-10 "Orangedime" | Flickr
We’re all human, no one is perfect.