Good place to take car pic's?

[Anquetil]

My new digital camera has arrived, so I want to take some pic's of the car and some friends car's.

Any suggestions for a nice quiet spot with good backdrops?

[krawler]

southbank!

Apparently you need a pass, but ringing southbank should give you permission if its for personal use only...

Another good one is riverside, mt gravatt lookout and kangaroo point cliffs.

[krawler]

http://www.autech.net.au/gallery_-_artech.php

Specifically: http://www.autech.net.au/images/gallery_-_...wallpaper04.jpg

And a little one:

Hmm, there are a few more of the skyrice at southbank... I just cant find them. NismoGirl?....

[Oz]

dam that is some very nice shots of erins car yeah looks like south bank is the good

[NismoGirl]

We were at southbank at like 12:30 or something at night and we got told to leave by a security guard Then at work, I have one of those photos on my desktop and one of the managers asked me how the hell I got my car into southbank without a pass! I'm like "*shrugs* we just drove in"

Another nice spot, depending on where you want to go, is down at point danger. Theres a nice grass field where you can get into if you know where it is. Thers a gate with no lock and you can open it up and have access to a big green patch of grass right on the waters edge. VERY nice.

[NismoGirl]

Heres another southbank one. My favourite

Point Danger - the spot I was talking about

Another at Point Danger

[krawler]

Way to **** up the IMG tags darlin

[Oz]

hey erin I can see why thats ur fave that a really nice shot

+ the point danger ones r beautifull scenic shots :aroused:

[krawler]

I should have been a photographer

[Anquetil]

Ta Guys.

I reckon Kangaroo Point with rocks light up behind would be sweet. I wonder what time they close the gates?

Now to figure out the best camera settings for night shots....

[krawler]

Kangaroo point is always open.

Very hard to find a spot that takes in the cliff and your car without being full of other "stuff" (ie: toilet block, swings, dirty bushes full of homeless people and rubbish)

Erins got some photos of kangaroo point on her computer I took too, but none with the car in it.

With something like an EOS, you could park the car in the widest open space you could and zoom in from the other side of the river to take the long exposure shot Tricky dicky.

[japtaxi]

Just take lots and lots of pics at different places I guess.

Still worth a read of this old article..

http://www.autospeed.com/cms/A_0931/article.html

cut'n'paste from the conclusion part:

Conclusion

There are five major biggies to think about when shooting a car:

Location (eg background)

Lens focal length (eg wide angle, standard or telephoto)

Lighting (soft/harsh, position)

Camera angle (high, normal, low)

Movement (long shutter sped, flash)

[Spook's_Skyline]

damn erin, nice pic

i tried to take some artisticy lit pix at the kangaroo point cliffs (nice red behind the car) but my camera doesnt have good enough exposure control, so they turned out a bit shit

its a nice spot though, if u got a good camera, its pretty as