 Hi All A few familiar faces around  I often find myself taking pics of cars in dark rooms as part of a hooby of mine, any tips? I use an Olympus C5050 with a tripod - the pics have to be kept at relatively low resolution as they go up on a site, though they are normally taken RAW. Normallly theres 3 or 4 500w halogen lights around the car. Is there a wide angle converter that anyone knows of for the olympus? Without one causes probs with the composition sometimes because of lack of space.... example of pics HERE Ta! Dave
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 Hiya Frothy, welcome aboard mate
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dont you dare call it valeting........ lol! Sometimes the conditions aren't exactly condusive to working outside...... Whats wrong? I dont know, I was hope that someone could tell me how to improve them!
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 There's isn't much wrong with them at all Frothey. Maybe you need more light in the darker areas and reduce the flare off the bodywork (use a matte polish on them ). Can you bounce the flash off the ceiling, paint the ceiling white or do what I do in my shed and line it underneath with white polystyrene foam blocks from the builders merchants, what are used for isnulating walls. This also helps insulate the roof. Ray Walton once bought a kind of box device that stuck around his flash gun to heavily diffuse it, I don't know if these are still available - anyone? I wouldn't mind one. Only other solution I could suggest is by perhaps using a slave flash with a reflector brolly. You want a wider angle? By a very wide angle lens if you can, what used to be called a fish-eye, but expect some barreliing distortion. Other than that - get a bigger garage and stand further back. 
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PS. When did you say you could do my MG? It shouldn't take you five minutes, you know what they're like.
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Yoy could have told him that on FM Woody save him trailing all the way over here?
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its not my garage, its the "clients" - otherwise it'd look a lot tidier than that lol! and anyone know of a screw on wide-angle adaptor?
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Olympus made the WCON-07 which gives you 0.7x magnification. It actually works really well which is why it still sells for quite alot (a journalist I know mounts his onto his dSLR). You need some sort of adapter tube too - but the model number escapes me right now. Welcome aboard! Good have a fellow C-5050 user here As for improving the pics - is there any way you can restrict the light so it doesn't go on anything but the car? You could then expose for the car and the rest of the garage would fall into darkness. Result: classic car shot Alternatively, buy a good scaled-down replica of the car, and shoot that in the comfort of your own home, with whatever studio props you like. This guy's done that and very nice his results are too: http://flickr.com/photos/savage_land_pictures/2309771148/
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thats an impressive looking car, the tyres on my LADA are exactly the same colour
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