Car shots, Austin

mercphoto

Hope this is a good place for the question. I picked up a Honda S-2000 last month and I've been dying for a good picture or two. All my normal spots are problematic. Dying brown grass, or construction cranes and fences around downtown, or Lake Travis being very low and therefore unattractive.

Usually I like Riverside, shooting north with downtown and Town Lake in the background. No dice due to brown grass, fencing, and construction cranes. Or near the 360 Bridge, but construction fencing abounds for some obscure reason, plus brown grass. A few spots offer Lake Travis in the background, which is so low its not photogenic.

So I'm looking for locales, or suggestions on how to work around the above issues. I might have to abandon any form of greenery in the shot this time of year. Thanks!

gus

Bill if you can t get away from it...use it. What about parking it somewhere that has few stationary objects but lots of people moveing thus a motion blur around/behind the car ? (ND filter may be usefull) Lot easier said than done but just a thought. Maybe somewhere with a freeway in the background in late afternoon early night with light on the car from street lamp but traffic motion behind it.

mercphoto

gus wrote:

Bill if you can t get away from it...use it. What about parking it somewhere that has few stationary objects but lots of people moveing thus a motion blur around/behind the car ? (ND filter may be usefull) Lot easier said than done but just a thought. Maybe somewhere with a freeway in the background in late afternoon early night with light on the car from street lamp but traffic motion behind it.

Not bad ideas. The ND filter for lengthening shutter times is also good. I plan, of course, of using a circular polarizer, which itself will block half the light and double any exposure time, which may or may not be enough. Possibly park it on Congress Avenue, get traffic blur in the background, maybe even the State Capital building as well.