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Kinda "snapshot" as others have mentioned, but also kinda "Toyota-esque" in the suburban setting.
A couple things come to mind for me.
We are looking the side of the car that is in shadow, rather than in key lighting. Some contours of the car are catching the "full sun", but mostly, this is the shadow side. Most of the rest of the image is in key lighting. If you'll run up the supersat tip to 100%, you'll see how blue the lighting is that is on the side of the car that we are seeing.
In this case, the blue color of the car doesn't feel much hurt from the blue lighting, but ... the luminance value of the subject is below that of setting, so you might want to lift the car (judiciously) a bit to show off its color a bit more ... or on a re-shoot, have it in key lighting rather than shadow compared to your foreground / background.
The other thing I might do here is to pull down the saturation in the setting (same issue as above) to rebalance the subject / setting relationships. The grass, houses, sky all have nice strong saturation (byproduct of key lighting), but they kinda pull us off the subject a bit.
Also ... shooting cars, reflections are always gonna be a huge challenge. Here, we see the reflections of the driveway, the grass and have color variance from front to rear. While that just comes with the territory in such a scene as this, it can be something to consider when scouting for a reshoot location. I'm thinking a drive to one of your "wide open" spaces that will have a very "even" foreground will allow you to minimize the reflections somewhat.
Alternatively, you could shoot it with your fondness for moonlighting landscapes.
Anyway, just tossing out some thought fodder. Congrats on the ride.
Edited on Jul 19, 2015 at 11:19 AM · View previous versions
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