"Designing a magazine cover" for school, need cars & photo-tips
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2point5RS_Dan
HATER DAN
Some good shots in there. The low angle shots of the STi and the pics with the legacy are favs.
Low angle shots + still cars = easy mode for decent car pictures.
Low angle shots + still cars = easy mode for decent car pictures.
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Stein
Stein
I love the low-side shots of the STI with the bridge in the background. I'm making a shoot-ton of wallpapers at my crappy-ass laptop's resolution.
Post up your resolutions and I'll make wallpapers! I'll also post up my 1280x800 ones sometime today if anybody happens to have that resolution.
Post up your resolutions and I'll make wallpapers! I'll also post up my 1280x800 ones sometime today if anybody happens to have that resolution.
MAINIAC XV
The Eco Man
I like the one with the 3 car noses and bridge in background
Nigel Prodrive
Dirt surfer
nice pics, but most fail at being candidates for mag covers
and here's why
mag cover shots are pretty formulaic...space at the top for mag logo and sell lines, then the image then space for more sell lines at the bottom
typically, the art director for a cover shoot works up a storyboard, and the photog shoots to fit the space left for the car image. often times, the photog shoots with a roughed-out slide of the storyboard already in the camera so there's no doubt about what fits where.
bright colors are the #1 key to successful car mag covers, those silver and soft blue cars won't pop on the newsstand...which after all is the real reason mags spend cubic $$ on setting up those sexay covers! cover cars are almost always red or yellow, with occasional bright blue. and you never, ever show the ass end of a car...it's usually front 3/4 view or full frontal.
I've been in the mag/TV biz for 25 years, so maybe I'm wrong but hey you asked....
mag cover shots are pretty formulaic...space at the top for mag logo and sell lines, then the image then space for more sell lines at the bottom
typically, the art director for a cover shoot works up a storyboard, and the photog shoots to fit the space left for the car image. often times, the photog shoots with a roughed-out slide of the storyboard already in the camera so there's no doubt about what fits where.
bright colors are the #1 key to successful car mag covers, those silver and soft blue cars won't pop on the newsstand...which after all is the real reason mags spend cubic $$ on setting up those sexay covers! cover cars are almost always red or yellow, with occasional bright blue. and you never, ever show the ass end of a car...it's usually front 3/4 view or full frontal.
I've been in the mag/TV biz for 25 years, so maybe I'm wrong but hey you asked....
Stein
Stein
Thanks for the tips Nigel! I'm cutting those pictures down into the picture for the cover, and today in class I was working on getting the positioning of the car right.
After I post up my [low-res] wallpapers, I'll post up what I'm thinking about for the mag cover.
I would have liked action shots, but I wasn't sure how to do that and we didn't have any dirt roads for drifting on
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After I post up my [low-res] wallpapers, I'll post up what I'm thinking about for the mag cover.
I would have liked action shots, but I wasn't sure how to do that and we didn't have any dirt roads for drifting on
Stein
Stein
Alright, these are all "vanilla," i.e. no photoshopping (yet).
Fight the man! (sorry for cropping you guys out, but the STI gets priority
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If the difference between the above and below pictures doesn't show how high-res this camera shoots at, I don't know what does...
Fight the man! (sorry for cropping you guys out, but the STI gets priority
If the difference between the above and below pictures doesn't show how high-res this camera shoots at, I don't know what does...
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Nigel Prodrive
Dirt surfer
well, now you got to design a cover for your imaginary car mag. Check out Road & Track, Automobile, etc for a sense of what car mags generally look like, then do your own version.
what are you gonna call the mag. pick a name, make a logo
make up some sell lines about other stories inside this issue: DCCD Controller Tweaks...... Swaybars--Go Big or Go Home.......JDM GC8 WRX Test..........Maine's Own LDR Wins Eastern Rally Championship
...etc etc
take the regular 8 1/2 x 11 magazine trim size and start laying out the logo and use that to make a template....then scroll that template around thru your pic galleries, zoom template in and out over various images until you find your ideal coverr. work the sell lines in around car image and poof you got a car mag!
what are you gonna call the mag. pick a name, make a logo
make up some sell lines about other stories inside this issue: DCCD Controller Tweaks...... Swaybars--Go Big or Go Home.......JDM GC8 WRX Test..........Maine's Own LDR Wins Eastern Rally Championship
take the regular 8 1/2 x 11 magazine trim size and start laying out the logo and use that to make a template....then scroll that template around thru your pic galleries, zoom template in and out over various images until you find your ideal coverr. work the sell lines in around car image and poof you got a car mag!
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Stein
Stein
^ Yeah I checked them out ("Car magazine" search on google images
) and they looked pretty bad.
I was going to call the mag "import magazine" or something, but my design teacher wants me to infringe on copyrights and not just use the name of another magazine, but to try, yes try to immitate it. WTF happened to original work? She wouldn't let us use pictures off of the internet, but then she forces us to copy-paste logos off of the internet.
I honestly hope I get sued for using some magazines work. I can put the blame on her.
sorry, /rant
http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s32/nategr8ns/DSCN1721.jpg
I was going to call the mag "import magazine" or something, but my design teacher wants me to infringe on copyrights and not just use the name of another magazine, but to try, yes try to immitate it. WTF happened to original work? She wouldn't let us use pictures off of the internet, but then she forces us to copy-paste logos off of the internet.
I honestly hope I get sued for using some magazines work. I can put the blame on her.
sorry, /rant
http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s32/nategr8ns/DSCN1721.jpg
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2point5RS_Dan
HATER DAN
For my web design class I had to 100% copy a website and code it from scratch, including recreating all the graphics. Actual magazines and websites are popular and make money for a reason, because they're doing their medium right. No one really cares unless you distributing it or making money off it. No one will sue you if you make something for education use.^ Yeah I checked them out ("Car magazine" search on google images) and they looked pretty bad.I was going to call the mag "import magazine" or something, but my design teacher wants me to infringe on copyrights and not just use the name of another magazine, but to try, yes try to immitate it. WTF happened to original work? She wouldn't let us use pictures off of the internet, but then she forces us to copy-paste logos off of the internet.
I honestly hope I get sued for using some magazines work. I can put the blame on her.
sorry, /rant
Evan
Active member
sorry i didnt check back on this earlier, but it looks like you got the pics you wanted.
to answer your question about the noise in that clock picture, its just because its a dark room. that point and shoot camera probably has auto-iso and cranked up the iso (film speed) which led to noise. also aperture priority mode will change the depth of field in focus, which will lead to a different shutter speed to balance out the exposure brightness. the best way to do HDR's is either full manual mode and set a constant aperture then change to shutter speed, or just use the exposure compensation button and make a couple over exposed and underexposed. 3 exposures is ok, 5 or 7 is better.
to answer your question about the noise in that clock picture, its just because its a dark room. that point and shoot camera probably has auto-iso and cranked up the iso (film speed) which led to noise. also aperture priority mode will change the depth of field in focus, which will lead to a different shutter speed to balance out the exposure brightness. the best way to do HDR's is either full manual mode and set a constant aperture then change to shutter speed, or just use the exposure compensation button and make a couple over exposed and underexposed. 3 exposures is ok, 5 or 7 is better.
Nigel Prodrive
Dirt surfer
pick an STI pink one, FTW
Photo 2 in color is really good, too.
one note: the panel for mailing address has to go in lower LH conrner of cover, per Post Office nazi ruleZ...it would go more or less right over the headlights of the bugeye near bottom of your image
Photo 2 in color is really good, too.
one note: the panel for mailing address has to go in lower LH conrner of cover, per Post Office nazi ruleZ...it would go more or less right over the headlights of the bugeye near bottom of your image
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