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This week's task is to take photographs of shiny things like new cars, glass stuff, metal things, etc. The idea here is to learn how to use light to an advantage and avoid the effect of reflected light or glare. It just so happens that I was near a car dealer the other day and stepped in to perform my homework, (as well as drool over the gorgeous new cars). I selected for my subject a magnificent red sportscar. It was a Corvette, I think. After walking around for some minutes, while fending off agressively charming young sales guys, I selected what I thought would be the best angle and made my shot. I shot in Auto Mode, AF, fine resolution, no-flash, matrix metering. I choose a slightly tilted, eye-level vantage to the car. There was so much light in the place, I don't think the flash would have fired in Auto, anyway. I was so pleased with the way it came out, that I didn't take anymore pictures of this particular car. I looked around for another car to shoot, and didn't really see any others that lent themselves to the reflected light challenge that the red one did, so I left. This photo needed little editing in terms of it's sharpness or contrast, but the background didn't do it justice. So I decided to see how I could produce a colorful background to bring out the color and the line of the car. The subsequent thumbnails, are a result of those efforts. All editing was done with Paint Shop Pro. All edited photos were resized (after background removal), and given new backgrounds. All edited photos were saved in jpg format at 35% compression.
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