PRIMER: Submitting your build on Lateral-G?

[MnHotRod]

Forgive me if this already exists but I thought it would be cool to have a "primer" or tutorial of sorts for submitting build projects. If this thread is successful, maybe we could eliminate the question mark from the subject line above? If a tutorial or guide already exists, can someone point me to it?

So, on to my core question. One of the guys in my club is building a pro-tour 70 Duster. He's kept it a secret until recently so I am going there tomorrow to get photos and some detail. Does anyone have tips on what I should focus on while I'm there? I'm pretty good with a camera but lighting and environment are unknown. I thought about bringing camcorder to record sound. I've tried to interview with pen and paper but I miss a lot.

Any tips or suggestions would be appreciated.

[fesler]

Steven,

I have been shooting cars for magazine features/covers for over 10 years now so here are a few key things to make your shots better.

1. Background, make sure there is nothing in the background that takes from the pictrue you want your focus to be on the car not the stuff around the car. make sure there are no polls/trees coming out of the top of the car just dosent look right.

2. Lighting is the key to all good shots, if you dont have any good lighting where you are going get a cheap can light from Home Depot or something to help you light up the subject. the back ground can fall off as long as you have good light on the car

3. Focus, make sure when you are shooting the car your focus is on the center section so that the complete car will be in focus and not soft at the front or rear. This is the number one thing people dont understand. When you focus on the grille the rear of the car will get very soft or out of focus so if you move your focus back to lets say the door/fender opening you will get the complete car in perfect focus.

shots depend on what kind of a camera you have, but you can get the shots with almost any camera. Remember when taking the pictures if it looks dark it will be dark on the pics and hard for you to post them. if you have a basic camera make sure you set it up for the light condition you are in, if you have a more advansed camera you can adjust to make even night look like day with a tripod. Most of the stuff shot on my site is shot once the sun goes down and its getting very dark. I do long exposure to brighten the pics up.

sorry for the long reply but this will help you in all shooting situations and here are some samples of different lighting