Thursday Night Meet Pics

[grasshopper]

Damn, why you guys gotta hate?!?!?! These pictures are better than most amatuer photos i have seen out there!!

[quickdodge®]

Damn, why you guys gotta hate?!?!?! These pictures are better than most amatuer photos i have seen out there!!

First off, no one is "hating" (and misusing the word hate is grossly out of line). Secondly, your photos are exactly like amateur's photos. They are only better than early cell phone cameras. Personally I don't care about "crystal clear" pictures, myself. My main two critiques are that the pics are too dark and the unnecessarily (and unnecessary) large watermarks.

Take what you want from it, man.

[Nerdsrock22]

Damn, why you guys gotta hate?!?!?! These pictures are better than most amatuer photos i have seen out there!!

I'm no expert, but here are some tips to improve on your photography.

1. If you are shooting at night, you need to use a tripod. It looks like you might be, but there is still some motion blur. You can avoid this by using the timer on your camera to steady your shutter.
2. The white balance on your photos is completely off. See how everything looks yellow cast? Find some grey or white to use in the images so that you can correct it when editing. It looks like you are using a flash in some of the pictures. Is this off-camera? Unless you can light the whole car with the flash, just avoid it. You will never be able to get the white balance correct.
3. You've either overboosted the contrast, or oversaturated the images to the point where you have lost a lot of detail. This is especially obvious with the red cars.
4. Whatever editing software you are using as destroyed the file integrity of the pictures. Every single one of the images has horrific JPEG artifacts. What is your current work flow? Maintaining file integrity is the least you can do if you want to be taken seriously.
5. Both the composition and depth of field in the images is boring and amateurish. I suspect you are using a point and shoot, so you might not be able to get much DOF, but you can certainly improve on composition. Give us the whole car or either get tight on the details. No one wants to see a Camaro with the back wheel cut off.
6. Just stop with the watermark. That font is moronic and the size is egregious. If you want to put your initials in the corner thats fine, but worrying about people stealing your images is the last thing I'd concern my self with at this point.

Keep working and stay busy.

[Western.]

I'm no expert, but here are some tips to improve on your photography.

1. If you are shooting at night, you need to use a tripod. It looks like you might be, but there is still some motion blur. You can avoid this by using the timer on your camera to steady your shutter.
2. The white balance on your photos is completely off. See how everything looks yellow cast? Find some grey or white to use in the images so that you can correct it when editing. It looks like you are using a flash in some of the pictures. Is this off-camera? Unless you can light the whole car with the flash, just avoid it. You will never be able to get the white balance correct.
3. You've either overboosted the contrast, or oversaturated the images to the point where you have lost a lot of detail. This is especially obvious with the red cars.
4. Whatever editing software you are using as destroyed the file integrity of the pictures. Every single one of the images has horrific JPEG artifacts. What is your current work flow? Maintaining file integrity is the least you can do if you want to be taken seriously.
5. Both the composition and depth of field in the images is boring and amateurish. I suspect you are using a point and shoot, so you might not be able to get much DOF, but you can certainly improve on composition. Give us the whole car or either get tight on the details. No one wants to see a Camaro with the back wheel cut off.
6. Just stop with the watermark. That font is moronic and the size is egregious. If you want to put your initials in the corner thats fine, but worrying about people stealing your images is the last thing I'd concern my self with at this point.

Keep working and stay busy.

Now there's some useful advice if I ever saw it. +Reps.