Car Parts - Add yours

[Photo-John]

Chunk-
If you want to start a sharing thread, you should do it on the ViewFInder forum. This is the only board that I want to be pretty rigid about. If we aren't kinda uptight about keeping this forum about critiquing, it could quickly spiral out of control. The car parts thread is a great idea, though. Maybe you could redo it on ViewFinder?

That said, I owe you a critique now

I like the old, chitty-chitty bang-bang feel of this image. But I feel like it's sort of conceptually vague. I want itto be either tighter or looser. I want to see more car, or focus on one detail. This one is teasing me, and not in such a good way. It's sort of frustrating. Especially that little glimpse of grill. I keep looking at the headlamp and thinking I want to just see a closeup of it. Or the whole car.

I think this is a suggestive photo. It's a good sketch from which to start exploring the old car. But it seems like you weren't really sure what you wanted to shoot. It feels like the first shot. I'm thinking the 25th one might have started to get good. That's what happens for me a lot of the time.

Hope that critique is useful. And thanks for understanding about the car parts thread idea. It is a good idea and I hope you'll try it on the ViewFinder forum. And if people post them here anyway, I guess we'll survive

[Jezz]

heres my addition, my cute little bug.

[shesells]

heres my addition, my cute little bug.

That bug is cute! What year is it? I've had two bugs and I'd love to have one of the new ones.
They rule. Nice shot.
Kit

[Chunk]

heres my addition, my cute little bug.

That makes me homesick for my own past bugs, but I won't be in the middle of winter!

[Chunk]

Chunk-
If you want to start a sharing thread, you should do it on the ViewFInder forum. This is the only board that I want to be pretty rigid about. If we aren't kinda uptight about keeping this forum about critiquing, it could quickly spiral out of control. The car parts thread is a great idea, though. Maybe you could redo it on ViewFinder?

That said, I owe you a critique now

I like the old, chitty-chitty bang-bang feel of this image. But I feel like it's sort of conceptually vague. I want itto be either tighter or looser. I want to see more car, or focus on one detail. This one is teasing me, and not in such a good way. It's sort of frustrating. Especially that little glimpse of grill. I keep looking at the headlamp and thinking I want to just see a closeup of it. Or the whole car.

I think this is a suggestive photo. It's a good sketch from which to start exploring the old car. But it seems like you weren't really sure what you wanted to shoot. It feels like the first shot. I'm thinking the 25th one might have started to get good. That's what happens for me a lot of the time.

Hope that critique is useful. And thanks for understanding about the car parts thread idea. It is a good idea and I hope you'll try it on the ViewFinder forum. And if people post them here anyway, I guess we'll survive

Sorry John, I guess I should have thought it through better. I just happened get the idea from punkJunkey's post here. You are right of course. I'll restart it on VF tomorrow.

With regaurd to your critique, I have often wished that I had included about half or a little more of the radiator with this for much the same reason you stated...and then sometimes I think I like the mistery a little more. I do like the repeated shape of the radiator and the back of the hood as well as the angled brace that lets the eye slide back and forth between the lights. I also like the leather strap that hasn't been on any production car lately. Thanks for the critique.

[Elysian]

If you want to start a sharing thread, you should do it on the ViewFInder forum. This is the only board that I want to be pretty rigid about. If we aren't kinda uptight about keeping this forum about critiquing, it could quickly spiral out of control.

I was writing a suggestion like that until I noticed your post. But what about the other way around? A few times I've seen pictures beining critiqued that actually belong in this forum, heck sometimes they are critiqued/posted in both forums... kinda confusing don't you think?