What is the best time of day to take pictures of car? So the color looks the most vibrant..etc?
You can take a photo of a car anytime during the day, or night even. It all depends on the look you want to achieve. Shooting under a blue, slightly cloudy sky is great for closeups of details, especially chrome, since you can get dramatic reflections.
If you want the most accurate color posible, shoot under shade. This will keep unwanted reflections that can change the look of a car to a minimum. Park your car on a light colored surface. This will make your tires look darker and help underlight the carriage. Also park away from anything, such as light posts and signs, that will put weird reflections on your car. Depending on how you want your car to look, you might want some sky reflecting off the top of the car as this will accent the curves. The point where the top of a building stops and the sky starts looks great when reflected on the fenders.
Check out http://www.jw-photo.com for ideas on the set up. Notice almost all the photos were shot in the shade, but they use light and reflections to exagerate certain parts of the car.
Car photography is all about using reflections that exagerate the curves of your car, and blocking the reflections that make your car look bad.
picture i got that i made into a video
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i got a private number plate for my dad as a birthday gift. It’s too late to get the plates made up beforehand and I thought instead of printing out a picture on card of his car with the chosen number plate from the DVLA website and getting it laminated to give to him as a kind of clue to what i have bought, However, I have just realised that I should have printed out the picture before I got the plate because now I can’t choose the plate in bought to see what it looks like on the car as it’s already been bought! Please help- I have good ideas, but never know how to go about doing them- I don’t have a printer and was wondering if anyone would know of a place where I can get this done and also how to get the picture in the first instance?
Send me the pic of the car and of the license plate and I can make it for you. I can send it back as a JPEG image and you can print it yourself or print it at Kinko’s or any other print shop (Office Max, Staples, etc…) by taking it to them on disk.
I need to see a picture to find the parts I need to place the old ones.
Some parts listed on www.autozone.com have pictures for them. Enter your vehicle make, model, and year and then search for the part. If they do not have an image available, you could also try a search on www.ebaymotors.com for the part you need. If some one has an auction for it, they may have a picture posted.
Singer-songwriter, musician, producer and pilot.
*** LYRICS ***
Here in my car
I feel safest of all
I can lock all my doors
It’s the only way to live
In cars
Here in my car
I can only receive
I can listen to you
It keeps me stable for days
In cars
Here in my car
Where the image breaks down
Will you visit me please?
If I open my door
In cars
Here in my car
I know I’ve started to think
About leaving tonight
Although nothing seems right
In cars
*** Released : August 1979 ***
According to Gary Numan, the song’s lyrics were inspired by an incident of road rage: “I was in traffic in London once and had a problem with some people in front. They tried to beat me up and get me out of the car. I locked the doors and eventually drove up on the pavement and got away from them. It’s kind of to do with that. It explains how you can feel safe inside a car in the modern world… When you’re in it, your whole mentality is different… It’s like your own little personal empire with four wheels on it”.
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Gary Numan (born Gary Anthony James Webb on 8 March 1958) is an English singer, composer, and musician. He is considered to be one of the pioneers of commercial electronic music and has been described as the “King of synthpop.” Gary is widely known for his chart-topping 1979 hits “Are ‘Friends’ Electric?” (with Tubeway Army) and “Cars”. His signature style combines gloomy themes of depersonalisation and alienation accompanied by energetic synthesizer work.
Early life.
Born in Hammersmith, West London, Gary Webb’s father was a British Airways bus driver based at Heathrow Airport. Gary was educated at Town Farm Junior School Stanwell, Ashford County Grammar School, Middlesex, Slough Grammar School and Brooklands Technical College. He had an early ambition to be an airline pilot, but did not gain any academic qualifications; however, he did go on to join the Air Training Corps as a teenager. He then briefly did various jobs including fork lift truck driver, air conditioning ventilator fitter and clerk in an accounts department. A guitar was purchased for him at an early age and he began writing songs when he was about 15 years old. He played in various bands, including Mean Street and The Lasers, before forming Tubeway Army with his uncle, Jess Lidyard, and Paul Gardiner. His initial pseudonym was “Valerian”, probably in reference to the hero in French science fiction comic series Valérian and Laureline Later he picked the name “Numan” from an advert in the “Yellow Pages”.
Personal life.
Gary married a member of his own fan club, Gemma O’Neill. In 2003, after some pregnancy difficulties, the couple had their first child, Raven. In 2005 they had a second daughter, Persia. In 2007 the couple had their third child, Echo. He published his autobiography, Praying to the Aliens, in 1997 (updated edition 1998), in collaboration with Steve Malins (Malins also wrote the liner notes for most of the CD reissues of Numan’s albums in the late 1990s, as well as executive producing the Hybrid album in 2003). Gary has recently moved to East Sussex from Essex.
Gary is also known for his love of flying, a passion which has featured in some of his music videos (”Warriors”, “I Can’t Stop”). He has owned several small aircraft. He is one of a very small handful of flyers with the credentials and qualifications to train aerobatic instructor pilots. Gary guest-starred in “The Power of the Crimp”, an episode of the BBC TV series The Mighty Boosh, where a major character, Vince Noir, is a huge Numan fan. Gary recently stated that he likes to go sailing from time to time. Gary was also a member of the Air Training Corps. Numan’s brother is also an accomplished pilot.
Gary has Asperger syndrome, an autism spectrum disorder which causes restricted social and communication skills. In a 2001 interview, he said: “Polite conversation has never been one of my strong points. Just recently I actually found out that I’d got a mild form of Asperger’s syndrome which basically means I have trouble interacting with people. For years, I couldn’t understand why people thought I was arrogant, but now it all makes more sense.”
Gary Numan – Crazier http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pca85HaAn6Q&feature=response_watch
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Hello.
I got a question. I am looking for a good place to take a picture of my eclipse for an automotive magazine in Buffalo NY area.
here are 2 examples:
http://www.thetorquereport.com/2009_mitsubishi_eclipse_1.jpg
http://image.caraudiomag.com/f/9319753/0701_caep_01z+1998_mitsubishi_eclipse+rear_left_view.jpg
Does anyone know a good spot for that?
Hot chicks in the background works for me
Jeremy Clarkson reviews the new Audi R8 supercar and claims it to be one of the best supercars in the world – only to be interrupted by a competitive Richard Hammond in a Porsche 911. Which one is better – the Porsche 911 or the Audi R8? The only way to settle this argument is through a Top Gear special drag race! Who will win? Watch this clip in full to find out.
Don’t forget to hit “view in high quality” at the bottom right of the video to see the car review in full at it’s best! Visit http://www.topgear.com for all the latest news and reviews.
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what is the speed???
That’s a good question. I keep watching top gear and they have tested many different types of cars going up to 160mph, and a little bit above, and they have yet to beat the speed camera, so it’s a work in progress still, I believe.
I want a real good, big, close, and full picture of a Police Car from the NYPD or Nassau County Police Department that I can put as my desktop background. I can’t find any good ones. Thanks for your help.
http://lh3.ggpht.com/_omYD4HQ50_Y/RzMp3pShQkI/AAAAAAAACfM/aQJaxVDS3mU/IMG_1535.JPG
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4d/New_york_police_department_car.jpg
Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond are given a tight budget to build their own police cars. Watch this video, part 1 of 2, as the boys creations are put to the test in a speed lap around the Top Gear test track. Great challenge clip from BBC motoring show Top Gear. Visit http://www.TopGear.com for all the latest news and car reviews.
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