Le Mans 24 hours - 2000. Sun rise shot - after being awake 24 hours already!!!

I like this shot, which was taken on Kodachrome 64. It shows

well the drivers eyes in the early morning sunshine.

great to get the eyes shining through so well. i also like the detail of the car in the morning sun. possibly cut out some of the dead space on the top and to the left?

regards

tim

I like this photo - a lot.

Don't think it needs to be cropped at all because it would remove some of the things that you associate with Le Mans from the background i.e. the trees and the Dunlop bridge. In that sense it is very evocative because the circuit is immediately identifiable. Cropping would remove that and turn it into any old sports prototype photo.

I also like the fact that the car is non-centre and towards the bottom of the frame.

You're right with your comment about my picture - it does capture the elements of Le Mans and without those, it would have just been yet-another-boring-racing-car picture!

There are several ways in which to frame this shot, I also like another shot where I have it portrait. But in all cases the worst thing one can do is place the car in the centre - it makes the shot look very loose and badly composed.

A better composition would have been to have the car more in the bottom left, but then I would have needed another car in the background on the right handside to balance it out.

Cheers, Mark.