Creating the “Wet Street” Look to Your Car Photographs
Today’s Post by Joe Farace When it comes to photographing cars, one of the most famous film noir effects used by movie cinematographers is the “wet streets” look that can add all kinds of interesting reflections to a scene. One way to increase your car...
Low Light, Fast Lenses and Fast Cars
Today’s Post by Joe Farace Dick Stolley, who many consider Time-Life’s best Managing Editor, once told People magazine’s photographers that a successful image elicited a “Gasp Factor” from the viewer. Often the best photographs—those “Gasp Factor” ones—are made...
Tips: Correct Exposures When Shooting Cars
Today’s Post by Joe Farace One of the classic rules about photography is that light has four major qualities: color, quality, quantity, and direction. As photographers who are seeking to master the art of exposure, seeing that light is the key to mastering the...
Why Not Photograph Your Own Car?
Today’s Post by Joe Farace “The best way to learn how to photograph cars is “Practice, practice, practice.”—Joe Farace Since there isn’t always a car show scheduled so why not shoot your own car? On any given weekend pre-pandemic there was a...
Our Cars: Remembering Our 1992 Jaguar XJS
Today’s Post by Joe Farace Jaguar’s XJ-S was re-launched May 1991 and under Ford’s ownership they dropped the model name’s hyphen, marketing it as the XJS. The rear side windows appeared enlarged despite having identical glass apertures as the...Follow Me
