The Jaguar in the atticby
snafflesComment by boyd2000: Greetings from the Critique Club
My first thought after seeing the title was "how did they get it up in an attic?" but you mention old British cars in the lot, so I guess this is a dealer's attic, which maybe has access for cars? It doesn't look like they have touched it for quite some time with all the dust on it. It's a shame, with some time and money this car could really look nice. It's a nice find, in a place you wouldn't normally look.
Now, on to the photograph. It's cropped very tightly, maybe because that's all the room you had to back up in the attic? Some more space on the right would have been good, and if they would let you move that piece of metal on the left edge to clear the fender would help also. Some other pieces sort of blend into the car also, but since it wasn't yours to move around you probably did the right thing by not overextending your privileges to get into the attic.
You did well with the long shutter speed and small aperture. I imagine there was not a lot of light in the attic, and you got good DOF with those exposure settings. It would be nice to get the shadows off the front but without additional lighting and in Basic editing you couldn't do that.
I like the detail you got in this less than ideal setting. Everything from the swirls on the body to the dirt on the floor came out very clearly. You chose an excellent shooting position, taking advantage of the light above to the right and getting a very nice perspective on the car body.
If you had an off-camera flash or a reflector to bounce back some of the light to the front bumper area I think it would have helped. The B&W processing works very well here.
A pretty good shot that should have probably scored higher than it did. Keep it up. PM me if you want to discuss further.
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