how to use a camera..

[cleong]

One guy (google for Easton Chang) started out with a point and shoot like you, and lots of Photoshop work, doing automotive photography. Now he's a professional car photographer for some major magazines in Australia.

So don't get too cut up all you have is a "Girly" camera. It has more megapixels than my first digital DSLR already.

What was said about zooming in - it "flattens" the car while taking it from real close distorts it. The Yaris is egg-shaped. Depends whether you want to play that up as "cuteness" or flatten it to show a more purposeful, line-drawing form.


Shot at 200mm


Shot at 17mm

The best thing you could do is flip through the magazines and get an idea of what works, critically assess how far off your photo is from that, and spend some time figuring out how the shot is done. Though it could be real easy to just write it off as them "using pro equipment" try your best. Especially with the static shots.

Be warned - getting serious about photography can mean lack of mod money for the Yaris.