VW car show, Cruise for the Cure 2011

[Justin McDonald]

These are a couple of my favorites that I took, but please give honest feed back. No BS required. Thanks

[pburness]

I'd crop in close on the Golf, so it looks like it's jumping out the picture at you, and try and add some blur to the background which is a little distracting (be careful not to blur the grass at the bottom or it will look fake).
In future, try and isolate the subject from the background in situations like this by using a small apeture f2.8 - f4 (you can experiment and check on your monitor the effect).
The beetle will be harder work because the car to picture right is too close - it might have been better if you could have been more square to the front of the car as the low angle is good.

Phil

[Justin McDonald]

Thanks I will try to fix the top one, That van on the right of the bug had a huge orange construction cone I had to clone out, maybe I will try to clone out the whole van.

[Justin McDonald]

version 1
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[Justin McDonald]

and the quick touch up of the Jetta

[pburness]

looking better in my eyes

I prefer version 1 of the beetle, but I may be a bit picky on number 2 - I think if you reduced the crop on the top (show more tree's) and reduce the foreground a bit may help.

Importantly though - what do you think of the changes Justin?

Phil

[Justin McDonald]

I like them a lot better too, way less distracting from the subject.

thanks.