DSLR Photography Forum

I was walking through Fremantle on a weekend with the usual procession of cars cruising along South Tce trying to impress the coffee-drinkers... and this Gemini came along and grabbed everyone's attention (for all the wrong reasons). I think the driver was pretty pleased with himself at how everyone was looking his way, but I think EVERYONE was thinking "why would anybody waste their time and money on a bloody Gemini?!?!?" Its no suprise that he has no passengers - I don't blame anyone for not wanting to be seen in that thing!

As far as the photo goes, I saw the scene unfolding in front of me (of the people looking towards the car) and it was more of a reflex action than a thought-out photo. The car was doing probably 25-30km/h, so I really only had a second to get the shot. It was even taken from the hip - but I don't think I could've composed it any better if I'd have held it to my eye.
I have taken a few distracting elements out of the image (there were a couple of other people in shot who had their backs turned and were engrossed in conversation), and also desaturated the background a fair bit to make the car jump out more.. not 100% sure if this "works" or not.

I'd like to hear other's thoughts on this shot, and ways it might be made to work a bit better than it does. I think it has potential, but its not my normal type of photography so I feel like I'm a bit "all thumbs".

*LOL* at this guy (my brothers first car was a beat up old Gemini)
I like this Kombi, the destat and composition works for me. I'm no good at shooting from the hip, so I'm impressed

*L* Destat, eh schell?
Bloody Aussies trying to shorten every word they can

Thanks Shell,

(I should point out that although I shot it from the hip and was happy it was composed the way I wanted, I had to straighten it a fair bit)

lol about the "destat" comment! The funny thing was that I didn't even blink an eyelid.. I didn't even notice it was abbrev.

*sigh* I'm into cars a bit myself, so I feel like I'm throwing stones in glass houses when I start ragging on Gemini drivers... But really this car is just wrong! wrong! wrong! Even a die-hard Gemini fan should be embarrassed by it.

very attention-grabbing especially the difference of the colours

lucky the 350D has a fast start-up time! hehe
some times when I see something I want to take a photo of fast, the camera does not start up in time