portfolio... 56K you've been warned

portfolio... 56K you've been warned

so I've decided to put together a portfolio to send out to potential sponsors, SOOOOOOO I took a trip up to redrocks park and took about 50 shots with my craptastic digicam. EJNOY! (this an't all of them

that car is so clean man I wanna hump it

i love that place. Why didn't we think of taking pics of our cars at that place?

UMMM I dunno its like 4 miles from my house... could have done that insted of the alpine slide...

1. never take pictures using flash, use longer shutter speed instead
2. always use a tripod
3. do not get your reflection in the picture
4. taking head-on pics, try not to use headlights, it just blows it out, instead, turn on only fog lights or parking lights

sponsors are tough to come by, good luck

dude the pics are fine I dk what you're tripping about......

dude when you start taking "real" photography and not just random clicks of your car..come back and talk to me, there are so many flaws with those pictures i can point out

dude I don't care about real photography if you do that's fine but dude they're only random pics of the car, we don't need to get all technical about it, jeez.

well he is submitting the car pictures to hopefully get sponsored, and a company would probably like to see some above average to professional style pictures

there is so much difference a picture can make a car look

that's a sexy drop

If its a "portfolio" he needs to have professional looking pictures...he was just trying to give pointers on how to achieve the look that would catch the eye of a possible sponsor. I dont know why youre tripping, jeez.

1. I said my camera sucked... I cannot change the shutter speed on my digicam... if you want I can take out my Nikon film cam and take some for ya.

2. I did use a tripod... again my camera sucks ass

3. please let me know where my reflection is I looked on all 50 pics that I took yesterday and didn't see my self once.

4 in the head on shot, that was the look I wanted... they did not blow out they did exactly what I wanted them to. actually all the pics I took turned out how I wanted them to... well except the second one... these are raw photos tho.. I have not done any editing to them.

I am not trying to denounce your advice, I am just saying that until you talk to somebody about how they wanted the pictures to be please try not to criticize ones artistic view of his own car.

For knowing your camera and knowing what great pictures you can take with a good camera, I think they turned out great. Wanna do some of my truck this weekend?
:You_Rock_

my bad, didn't read the cap there ehehe, my bad...... yea red rocks is a great place to take car pictures at. Kris took some shots of this r33 skyline in that same location too and damn they looked great

why not just gather professional pictures from toyota? since your car is stock....

this one looks good, looks like youre in some sort of cave w/ water reflecting off the wall

another thing that is too distracting is the license plate, if it's just to block your plate on the forum, thats fine, but dont send that blue green yellow beehive pattern to the sponsor

when i say blown out, you can CLEARLY see that it is on pics 1, 2, and 4, the side reflection on the car isn't really a reflection anymore, it's just TONS of light making the car look white..no more reflection

the headlights make it too distracting, if you wanna take pics of headlights, take them during sunset, when the sun is up, and you're taking pics head-on, it tends to brighten up one side it looks like ass

and NEVER TAKE PICS against the sun

and if you say you could take better pics with the nikon film, why not do that instead, why would you want to take pics with a crappy digicam that doesn't show the better of the car

the last picture is the best out of all IMO, side of the car isn't blown out, reflections are clearly visable, only thing i would change is turn the headlights off and sharpen the picture a bit

The pictures are alright, but what does your car have that would make a company want to sponsor you? As far as I can tell, its only lowered, stock wheels, stock kit on it, stock lights all around, stock grill, etc... it's not an ugly car (I personally like it alot), but a sponsor will want someone who was already put some cash and time into their car (they know the person is serious), you have a good start, but I doubt that its even near enough to entice any *real* potential sponsors...

well dude not necesarily, I've seen close to stock cars that are sponsored dude.

The first year they come out...

I meant to say sponsored by aftermarket parts companies dude

...What else would I be talking about other than aftermarket part companies? What Im trying to say is that most companies will look past a stock looking car if it isnt in its first year of production(body style wise). If he would have tried back in 03, I would say he had a chance, but now, its very unlikey.

eh who knows dude might happen. I bet his car is got a good chance.