Quote Originally Posted by down_shift
I think some more practice with camera will give you better images to work with. The stronger the original image the easier it is to get a strong finished image. I think the use of filters its too much in some like the porsche. Try and uses other ways to draw attention to the car other than trying to blur it out.

Just take a lot more pictures and get to know your camera.
on the porsche the picture was great.. the reason for the blur and the black and white is because I was trying to really get across just how hectic that scene was. The people themselves were slightly blurred already cause they were running around.. literally the car was the only thing that was sitting still, and I really wanted to emphasize that. When I'm doing just straight up auto photography, I leave the filters at home and just get nice shots at good angles, displaying the car itself (like the dark burgundy civic with the doors up from nopi). The ones that are all filtered and stuff like the porsche and the cars coming down the hill were for a more artistic approach, and because I was trying to flex my photoshop muscle a bit. Trick worked.. the porsche pic is hanging in my ergonomic design professor's office. He loved it. Thanks for the pointers, though.