Why is it every time I want to take a picture theres a car in the way. Nine times out of ten daybrake or anytime during the day they are ALLWAYS parked just were you dont want them to be. Wheely bins are the same. Visit a village, town there they are all sat outside the houses. A lovly Tudor black and white house, pub or stone built cottage and whauts there, bloody cars parked!!!

Modge, you mean you don't have a "car" filter to put on your lens???? Be sure to get a "people" filter and a "telephone/power line" filter while you are at it. They work great.

:D

ya plonker!

Wot's a "wheely bin"?

Oh, and Modge, please respond to my English Folk suggestions thread:

http://www.audiokarma.org/forums/showthread.php?t=254485

Ken

wheely bin = trash can with wheels on.

With a film camera, using very slow film, at a dark time of day and using a very slow shutter speed and small aperture; moving cars go by so fast that they do not register on the image. I'm talking shutter times of 10 seconds or more. This of course won't help with the parked cars. I've seen some really nice shots of downtowns in early morning looking deserted when the photographers had noted that cars had driven by. Camera magic. :D

yep thats right, you can't do anything about a parked car but if you get an ND filter and just use a longer exposure they will blur out so to speak

Depends a bit on the cars, but sometimes it's good to just include them in the frame, like these Beatles and other cool cars in Mexico. Brand new cars are often considered an eyesore in a picture, but give it 20 or 30 years, and they look really cool. Cars are a great way to date a picture.

http://www.fmueller.com/wp-content/gallery/mexico/guanajuato-beatle-red.jpg

http://www.fmueller.com/wp-content/gallery/mexico/guanajuato-beatle-blue.jpg

http://www.fmueller.com/wp-content/gallery/mexico/guanajuato-street-5.jpg

http://www.fmueller.com/wp-content/gallery/mexico/guanajuato-street-6.jpg

I haven't got any good examples of my own images handy for the latter, but Ian McEachern has some good ones in his Photo.net portfolio (http://photo.net/photodb/member-photos?user_id=362144). Worth a visit at any rate. The man's work as a photographer is ingenious in my opinion!