{"id":343,"date":"2011-01-14T09:32:52","date_gmt":"2011-01-14T16:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beautiful-landscape.com\/Reflections\/?p=343"},"modified":"2019-05-31T12:07:17","modified_gmt":"2019-05-31T19:07:17","slug":"about-photographing-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beautiful-landscape.com\/Reflections\/about-photographing-cars\/","title":{"rendered":"About Photographing Cars"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The interesting thing about photographing cars is how most people look at car photographs.\u00a0 There is an assumption, especially when the photographs show my own cars, that the purpose is to brag about owning a specific vehicle.\u00a0\u00a0 The fact is I photograph cars because I love cars, be it my own cars or someone else\u2019s cars.\u00a0 I don\u2019t photograph them to brag about them.\u00a0 I have been photographing cars for at least 5 years now, and if I was taking these photos to brag about owning specific cars, I would have stopped a long time ago! Bragging doesn\u2019t go on for years.\u00a0 It\u2019s a short lived thing.\u00a0 You brag, people get envious (if the bragging worked), you achieve what you wanted, and you move on.\u00a0 You don\u2019t go on doing it for years and years.<\/p>\n

Plus, regardless of how long you brag about owning a vehicle, you don\u2019t put all your efforts into creating the finest car photographs possible.\u00a0 You don\u2019t spend hours planning a shot, composing the photograph, making sure everything is done right, processing and optimizing the photograph to get optimal quality, printing it to the highest standards, and making sure you are expressing a personal vision.\u00a0 No.\u00a0 If your purpose is to brag, you grab a quick shot with your cell phone and post it on Facebook.\u00a0 Bragging isn\u2019t about the quality of the photograph. It\u2019s about owning something that others don\u2019t have.\u00a0 Who cares how good the photo of that thing is. What matters is you have it and they don\u2019t .\u00a0 Your skills as a photographer are not at stake here.\u00a0 It\u2019s your buying power that is!<\/p>\n

Quite frankly, I photograph cars for the same reason I photograph landscapes.\u00a0 Because I love them.\u00a0 That\u2019s all. I love landscapes and I love cars.\u00a0 I admit that having a passion for both is quite unusual because there isn\u2019t a whole lot in common between both.\u00a0 One is man made while the other is nature made. One is the product of science and technology, while the other is the product of geology and natural forces.\u00a0 But to me, the one thing they have in common is that they are both beautiful.\u00a0 Landscapes are beautiful and cars are beautiful.\u00a0 Not all landscapes and not all cars of course, although the case can be made that with the proper light, composition and vision all landscapes and all cars can be made to look beautiful.<\/p>\n

Regardless of these considerations what I am saying is that it is the aesthetic<\/em> aspect of both that attracts me.\u00a0 The visual quality. The fact that there are beautiful aspects to both.\u00a0 The fact that they allow me to express not only my passion for both subjects but also my creativity.\u00a0 Both offer plenty of room for creativity, for personal expression, for the creation of a body of work that demonstrates vision and not just documentation.<\/p>\n

. . . \u00a0to be continued.<\/p>\n

Alain Briot
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The interesting thing about photographing cars is how most people look at car photographs.\u00a0 There is an assumption, especially when the photographs show my own cars, that the purpose is to brag about owning a specific vehicle.\u00a0\u00a0 The fact is I photograph cars because I love cars, be it my own cars or someone else\u2019s…Continue reading About Photographing Cars<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16791,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[27,43,28,29,26,32,35,33,38,52,37,47,40,48,39,30,36,44,31,34,42,50,41,49,46,51],"class_list":["post-343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-natalie-and-alain-briot","tag-alain-briot","tag-antelope-canyon","tag-art-2","tag-canon","tag-composition","tag-digital-photography","tag-fine-art","tag-fine-art-photography","tag-grand-canyon","tag-landscape-photography","tag-landscapes","tag-leica","tag-lightroom","tag-marketing-2","tag-navajoland","tag-nikon","tag-painting","tag-personal-style","tag-phase-one","tag-photography","tag-photography-ebook","tag-photography-workshop","tag-photoshop","tag-selling-photographs","tag-sony","tag-workshop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beautiful-landscape.com\/Reflections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beautiful-landscape.com\/Reflections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beautiful-landscape.com\/Reflections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beautiful-landscape.com\/Reflections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beautiful-landscape.com\/Reflections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/beautiful-landscape.com\/Reflections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16792,"href":"https:\/\/beautiful-landscape.com\/Reflections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions\/16792"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beautiful-landscape.com\/Reflections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beautiful-landscape.com\/Reflections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beautiful-landscape.com\/Reflections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beautiful-landscape.com\/Reflections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}