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- čas přidán 27. 07. 2024
- If you like cars, chances are you’ve taken a picture of one...but was it good? Join Professional photographers Larry Chen and John Cirone and learn how to get great photos of your car EVERY. TIME.
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Step 1: turn your phone on its side to shoot landscape
What you don't like half of the photo being clouds?
Well dont if you want wallpaper
@@yogiewisesa2802 or posting to Instagram. Vertical photos get more attention
JapCarRealGood not for instagram
Some pictures are better horizontal, some better vertical. But you should choose what you want because of the composition, not because you are to lazy to turn your phone.
Also, avoid shooting where you're in the reflection
yeah don’t want anyone seeing my ugly ass
This is the closest we've gotten to a Donut Media and Hoonigan crossover, and I'm happy it was Larry who did it.
John Beekman I’m surprised Nolan didn’t mention Hoonigan when introducing Larry.
@@No1Famous617 He said in credits, watch till the end 😊
Larry dose not work for hoonigain, he's a contractor who works with them.
I'll be honest, the unedited 'before' versions looked a lot better!
Yeah I thought that too
Jacob Myler agreed.
I thought so as well especially the engine pic
True. The after looks like a desert
Indeed. The first photo (car) is too warm, the area around the wheels is underexposed and the car color is too washed out and different from the actual car color. The second photo (engine) has way too much under- and overexposure and it's complete junk. The last photo (speed meter) is also a little underexposed and lacks color.
I feel like James would do an episode on the miata on bumper to bumper
But he usually does bumber 2 bumper to unique cars
@@carljosephavelino4128 but it has pop up and down headlights
@@oogaandboogainc762 pop pop pop
or an Up To Speed
@@DrewTrouw There is already UTS ep on Miata :)
As a photographer, I've literally never thought of holding lens filters over my cell phone camera before.
But then again, these days you can get lenses and filters for your phone, same as your DSLR.
Do a vid on the involvement of car companies during ww2 and other wars
YES, THIS!!!!
i know you read the comments Donut Media! show how vehicle factories went from making cars to making tanks and engines for airplanes, lots of info here, im sure you'll be able to get past the 10min mark on this one.
This ☝️
Porsche - elephant pls
Sherlock Sinha *_J A_*
James May has delved very deep into this subject. Check out his documentaries.
"How to take car photos with just your phone?"
*_hold up, let me take my nokia 3310_*
But seriously, nokias did what good phones try to do today, lumia 1520 is rad
@@TheJedirock yea, the newer nokia phones are really good
The 3310's camera is so good it doesn't even exist
2:08 does anyone know where I can find this song and it's name?
Dark Wolf take a screen recording and go on Snapchat, and use there Shazam feature
More tips for selling:
1 include as many photos as you can and please use landscape
2 If you like make the first photo seen a front corner shot with the wheels turned towards the opposite corner like its on the cover of a magazine
3 Taking pictures in your yard, nicer area or in my case the gravel near the field across the street looks a lot nicer than the am/pm parking lot
4 NO snapchat or instagram photos, captions and filters are usually a dead giveaway you are young and stereo typically do not have $ for maintenance
5 If you use filters make is a subtle one and use it on all photos to bring back color if the photos look dead
6 Show as much of the car as possible, all body panels, 1 or 2 interior, 1 good landscape engine bay pic showing the whole bay
7 your goal to an extent is to show as much of the car in the ad as possible, an ad with good pictures and enough simple detail will keep expectations even with the car.
8 Get that car as clean as possible, nobody likes somebody elses mess. Wash, vacuum and at least wipe the engine bay with a rag (dont hose it, ends bad)
9 Be sure to include all necessary information, year, make, model, engine style v6,v8 etc. , engine displacement, rwd,fwd, awd, 4wd, mileage, general options like a/c or p/s if not all of the cars had it like miatas.
10 Remember you are trying to sell the car so you need to be honest, but the buyer also needs to make the call themselves on what is wrong with the car. If the steering wheel isn't dead straight but it doesn't pull it is not worth mentioning IMO.
Remember lots of pictures and to the point Keep-It-Simple-Stupid
There's this youtuber called @BuddysDIY who actually recommends vertical or portrait pictures instead. 🤔
I love the saying keep it simple stupid because you can use it for so many things trying to learn to drive instead of trying to bash through gears like your Colin McRae keep it simple go slow learn where the gears are and how it feels to change gear you want to take nice photos for Instagram dont start on some really complex shots where you are photographing moving cars while sat still keep it simple take a picture with something else in the foreground or with a nice view in the background like in this video
I'm not fond of the miata's editing.
I love contrast, it just shows what you want to show.
It was a great Instagram pic, not so much for selling
You're right about it being a bad picture for selling, but not all of these pictures were to sell, it was for Social Media mostly.
Agree, just like his "crap" versus "cool" photo of his Mustang, the first one really showed the car a lot better, while the one at the end was much more "artful" but you couldn't see anything about the actual car. It all depends on the objective.
@@quillmaurer6563 for a selling picture, I would go with most manufacturers way : high contrast, cool reflection, putting the colour in the spotlight...
@@Zantrop64 Yes. And how well lit it is depends on the condition of the paint. If it's in great condition, do like you describe. If it's crap, do something avant-garde.
@@quillmaurer6563 Indeed. But with a bit of work, you follow chrisfix's video on cleaning, and your car seems a thousand times better
Most importantly, create your personal style. Edit photos how you like them and keep them all consistent. Like your car, you photography and editing style is unique to you.
Indeed, the same could be said of any artform.
I would only say to stick with the style and be consistent with it once you have had a lot of experience, in my opinion new photographers should always try new style and techniques and when you find something you like save it but keep messing around with it until you feel that you exhausted all possible styles you can think of, I personally did what you recommended and while I really liked it one day I decided to do the opposite of what I would normally do, I started out doing very warm shots and eventually after almost a year of experimenting I found that I like cooler photography better, may just be me tho, one of my friends did the same thing I did and experimented a lot and loved it but another friend didnt like to do that
I like the original pictures without the filters better.
Instructions unclear
Car still looks like an Aztec
*O H W A I T*
Underappreciated comment
Don't worry. I find Aztecs cool
i love azteks
Yeah they’re pretty cool but the looks are... interesting
James: always says litlary every big name in Car Culture is his friend, but no one of them ever showed up at his show
Nolan: says nothing about his friends in his videos and then Larry Chen shows up 😂
Drift_ Noob don’t you mean “literally”? 😂
@@ChrisTheCarBuilder yeah, thanks
@@ChrisTheCarBuilder my English just ain't good
@@ChrisTheCarBuilder weewoo some called the cun.. Oh I mean grammar police
For a sec I thought Nolan was just sitting next to himself 😂 6:41
When I look at cars on Craigslist, I immediately scroll part cars that have filters and have been edited. It kinda kills the car for me. It means that they are trying to make the car look better and compensating. Great picture hacks but not a fan of changing the warmth of the pictures and such
Drew it drives me crazy finding pictures that someone has tried to edit or make look cool. Take real pictures and act like an adult when you're selling a car!! lol
mike s if you think your car looks better in black and white, then you probably won’t see the green and white. Smh. And you also probably think that Snapchat filters are acceptable profile pictures.
Drew yup that's for sure
same, I hate filters, they just make everything so fake. and I personally like the before photo in this video better. you can see the coast better and the colors look very natural and rich. also there's no photo I hate more than black and white ones (unless they are actual, historical, old school black and white photos). what do people have against color these days?
Users filters and editing makes sense for selling a house. Realtors do it all the time. But for selling a car? Nope!
2:25: sounds like Jeremy Clarkson 😎
That's the point..
Actually, the 2x zoom on newer phones is actually a 2x OPTICAL zoom. Not digital. It's a whole other lens.
And it actually has a good effect on photos. But, like Larry said, dont be lazy and adjust composition with zoom. Walk forward or back. Either on 1x or 2x.
Larry Chen is the best thing man, live around the things you love to do. Would love to learn under him.
Anybody have the beacon hill vibe from Need for Speed Underground 2?
Love Larry's work. Would love to see a 🍩 Donut Media x Hoonigan collaboration in the future. 🏎️💥💨
ummm donut garage....
Ronnie Rawdawg Donut garage is not a collaboration between the two.
6:42 Me: Holy Crap! Nolan! There's 2 of you!!!
The resemblance is astounding. I wonder if their
parents were friends.
Original pic was better. Made it look like dead AZ on the coast 🤣
CrackingTheGlobe the valve cover one bothers me the most
Driving to scenic locations in the early morning when the lighting is good to take cool pics is probably my favorite thing to do in the car hobby. Even ripping through downtown early in the morning is fun. Ripping up a mountain road to an overlook early AM is heaven on earth.
2:25 sounds like Jeremy Clarkson saying “and he is The Stig.” In Top Gear
I am always amazed at just how bad some people are at taking photos. My wife comes to mind. Lol.
Was on offer up the other day, and saw this picture of a "bke" (bike) that looked like they took the picture while running towards it.
IKR...
Larry!!! ❤ Nolan sourcing the super pimp of glamor shots, professional AF,
Be proud of your growth Nolan, you've come into your element as a host!!
Really cool video idea! I've been shooting cars for about two years now, and I've only got two things to say. 1, Lightroom will completely change the way your photography. It's fun, intuitive, and really really capable, and it's free! And 2, practice. The more you practice, the better you will get, and the more creative you'll get!
Came for Up To Speed stayed for Wheel House
Ayyy
Joe Carioti Up to speed is on Thursday bro’ ;)
Ten more tips:
1. Sometimes leaving the natural color of the photo alone is better. Stylistic color is fun for posting online but it doesn't necessarily "improve" the shot. However, /always/ check to see if adjusting your highlights/whites and shadows/blacks can improve the photo.
2. You CAN shoot with the main light source somewhere behind your car! A lot of professional photographers and cinematographers even prefer this technique. Just make sure there's enough ambient light that your car doesn't look too dark.
3. A perfect time to try "light behind the car" is during sunset or in the hour before it, AKA "magic hour". The sun's low angle will cast long shadows and a warm beautiful look on your car. Think about how many pro car shots have that golden sunset look.
4. Learn what The Rule Of Thirds is! It takes less than a minute and a quick Google search to learn, and it will give you a basic idea of how to get good composition easily in your photos.
5. While you're on Google becoming an expert in just a few minutes, look up Leading Lines! Leading lines add depth and draw attention to the subject/car.
6. The glass filter used in front of the iPhone lens here is called a circular polarizer. Rotating the filter allows you to get rid of various unwanted reflections on your car or make the sky appear more blue. Just get one! You will have a lot of fun and you'll get better photos.
7. As shown here, your background is important. Ideally, place your car in a location that might already be worth taking a photo of on it's own as a landscape or aesthetic shot. Try to take an appealing photo of both the background AND your car /at the same time/.
8. They also sort of show this in the video, but never underestimate the power of turning the face of your front wheels towards the camera, whether the shot is from the front or the rear. You don't need it in every shot, but it's a lot like posing your car for the camera.
9. Got Photoshop? Cool. It's actually very easy to edit a still image of your car to have motion blur on just the wheels and background (not the body of the car itself) as if the photo was taken at high speeds. Tutorials are everywhere! The key is to take a dramatic low angle shot of your car (driver not visible) in a place where it COULD be zooming along. This will stand out, because people don't tend to have an "action shot" of their car.
10. This last one should be obvious but... if you're actually taking your car somewhere for pictures, please wash it first! A dirty car looks cheaper than it ought to in photos. "Eh, looks good enough" is not good enough.
One more tip. Consider tour timing. You can make your photos look much nicer by taking them in evening, or early morning.
This makes the colours warmer and often much more interesting.
Also the lighting is generally milder at this time, so it can reduce highlights and make shades softer.
This enables you even to make photos with the sun in the shoot without having a lot of trouble with contrast.
And this trick us very easy to implement.
ASILOMAR!!! I go to that overlook like every day 🤯 So cool to see one of my favorite photoshoot spots used in a Donut video!!!
Damn. That music made me think I was watching an Abroad in Japan video for a second 🤣
koukicody Same 😂😂😂😂
Make an up to speed on Plymouth
how has that not been done yet?
Especially the Plymouth Hemi Cuda.
It's already done
Plymouth neon!
This needs a list of the must have shots i e full dashboard, and other extensive interior shots, engine, underside, trunk, exterior and how to best shoot those areas.
Thanks for your hard work!
For me, the best way to learn stuff like that is to look at the stuff I like and then analyse it, why I like it, why it works, where's the subject, what's in the background, where's the horizon, how are the colours, where your eyes are drawn to the most when looking at that picture. It takes a bit of practice, but it's rather easy once you get a hang of it.
From this video I LOVE the advice to use your legs instead of zooming in. It's so simple, yet a lot of people don't get it.
"It's 93 million miles away and it's...the sun"
Thank PapaNolan
6:52 "my good friend here" ... or did you mean MY TWIN BROTHER!!!
Nice to see this, it’s what I’ve been doing since 2014. I love when people assume I have a expensive gear.
My first viral photo was picked up by Nissan, shot with an IPhone 4
this is literally the best channel i love these. i learn something while being entertained and its great
larry got me bout to spend the whole day taking pics haha
"Kinda looks like Nolan" LOL!
A little too much like Nolan...
Hell yes! Larry Chen is sick! Super hype to see him in a Donut video :D
That was pretty cool how you guys got Nolan talking to himself about editing pictures! It was awesome!
Larry Chen is mad legit, please continue probing his brain-stuff for knowledge
everyone else: ohhh thats a nice miata
me: is that a Subaru outback?
insert *is that a Supra* meme here
Yessss. Keep working with Hoonigan!
I am an amateur photographer and I started with a 5th gen iPod with a cracked screen and just tweaking made them awesome! Now I have some professional equipment!
Why "don't use 2x on iPhone"? Its optical zoom and makes smaller FOV - you dont have this fisheye effect.
Larry chen with donut ftw
This is awesome guys, thanks! Helped me a lot!
Favorite video yet! Learned alot, and Larry is a legend! Probably going to watch this video again later for reference 🤙
Check out Larry's youtube channel where he's teamed up with the Hoonigans!
czcams.com/channels/uGuOqcXsgzL3YrguODoGXw.htmlvideos
I do photography, I got mixed feeling from this vid, but idk why
Yea... The guy who was doing the editing didn't really know what he was doing, slidimg the highlights down in vsco, rendering it, picture gets compressed, then throwing it into light room and turning the high lights up and the whites down? Wtf do you you want your highlights to do 😂😂😂😂😂
Should have done all the processing on Lightroom, cleaner output, can render without any additional compression
More handsome hosts equal better videos.
yes
I enjoyed see how yall showed how to get good pic with your phone. As of now I dont have a car I would what to take pic of but. I do a lot of woodworking and will be using the tips and trying to apply them to those photos. Thx
I love your videos! I wish you guys much success!
Actually zooming isn't bad if your phone has more than a single camera and one of them is a telephoto or more
For example when they used the iphone in the vid it only had one lens and for zooming it just zoomed on the screen and not the camera itself so basically they lost a lot of resolution
On a phone like the galaxy S10 you have a wide-angle and the telephoto,where the x2 is loss-free
The P30 pro has a lot of zoom capability (up to 50x) but not exactly without loss but good enough
Still, when you can just move closer, zoom isnt neccessary.
@@tommynguyen8620 true, just thought I'd leave that there
Good stuff. For the Android users I find for my phone car photography, snapseed is an awesome app.
Wow, watching this after more recent Donut videos really highlights the uptick in production quality. Go Donut go!!
These are useful tips. I take a lot of photos of the scale model cars I make and I've recently started putting them on Instagram. Thanks!
This video came out the day after I went out to Mother Nature to take a picture of my car 😭
D-Draven Fuhhh go back! LOL
5:20 "Watch your finger."
"Oh, that's your finger"
*Nervous chuckle*
*Blush*
😏😏
*Kissing begins*
Wtf.....
Donut media fan fiction
Nice tips... love it. Didn't try yet.. but have some ideas to try it on.
5:58 love that red R32 being ignored in the background
great, now I can take a good pic of my Aventador...in forza.
I can help you with forza photography if you want, message me on Instagram @waffles_x_traef
I have became a photographer after watching the video
as a photographer i can definitely say you’re accurate especially with lighting
Hey Thanks for this...it was really useful and helpful...more content like this plz!
You mostly wanna show the valve cover
Subaru owners: pull motor out
Who ever takes a picture vertically needs to go to prison
i was at cars and coffee yesterday and the clouds were perfect and i’m super happy with what i got. sony mirrorless ftw
This was extremely helpful!
How to Take PERFECT Car Photos with Just Your Phone
Step 1: Buy a phone.
Step 2: Buy a phone with a camera.
I've played enough Forza to know that the second photo is from Forza Horizon 4.
@Ricky Spanish the thumbnail
@Ricky Spanish I know, I was making a joke
Timestamp?
@@brokenbmw3441 what for?
Daniel Marconi Too lazy to find out the second picture
I have my camera "tuned" for landscape because it helps with the car details in the sun. Also, use light exposure settings for mega sunny locations. Awsome Video Dounut!
THIS IS THE VIDEO I NEEDED AAAAA
Step 1 : buy a good looking car
Step 2.....
You're talking to a dude that has 500 followers only follows 150 of them back and never posts anything.
Other apps which are worth checking out are Lens Distortions, Pro Cam, SCRL, Unfold & Swipeable. Also shooting through stuff to add depth of field is easy and looks pro too. (such as bushes, fences, leaves.)
Thanks for the tips. This will help
The first guy had some solid tips. I like the idea of turning the wheel so you can see the front rim from the back corner. That was a good idea.
Been thinking about making an Instagram page for my next car and this video really helped! Thanks Donut!
I'm definitely coming back to this vid once I decide to take pics of my jetta👌🏽
As a person with a photography hobby, this is a pretty accurate video. Pretty basic, but this is like most of what I do with most of my photos, and for photos like that this is more than enough touching up. If you're willing to go more advanced, you should definitely shoot in RAW if your device supports it.
This was great. I've always wanted to take better pictures of my car!
Very helpful video and that Miata looks so good!
Nolan is the best thing about donut media.
Nolan my man, that silhouette shot at the end looks sick!!
that was an awesome video...actually very helpful
THIS HAS TO BE A SERIES!!!
Definetly deserves a like, even for me who has no car, this knowledge will be really helpfull in the future
Lerry Chen is the shit!!! It's so cool that you guys had him on!!!
Good compositional tips. Composition can make or break an image.
that laugh...you are a funny dude Nolan.
Very good video in the times when we all some time or the other post pics of our car for sale or even buy one.
Though I would rather like the original pics of a car over a well taken or even edited one
This shows the condition of the car realistically
Saves a lot of time.
Fr Lary Chen is the goat of car pictures
cheers to the video i didnt know i needed
honestly better than a lot of photography tutorials on actual photography channels
I love Larry Chen!