I am by no means an expert on photography but take a look around you before you take a photograph, I remember Tim (WildV6) taking a photograph of his car in a nice setting only for there to be a pile of deer crap in the foreground of the shot.
You need to ensure that the quality of the shot is good too, that there are no major aberrations in the photograph, milky or grey colour to the shot.
Location is a key point, a photograph of someones car in their drive is not as attractive as one taken in an interesting setting.
Ensure that there are no distractions that spoil the photograph, think about when a portrait shot is taken and a balloon in the background appears to be growing out of the subjects head, or litter on the floor in the final shot. We all know that if you have editing software you can get rid of it after but why not spend a couple of minutes before taking the shot?
If you are constrained by the geography of your chosen site, take the photograph in the biggest format possible getting as much of the desirable features (i.e. car and setting) and crop the clutter from the shot with post editing software.
Always take several shots rather than one, but experiment with different angles too, you may just see something different.
The rule of thirds is if you imagine the frame has two horizontal lines and two vertical lines equally spaced, some cameras have a function whereby you can set them to show the lines, try and get your subject on the lines or even better where they intersect, it's common practice for professional photographers to do this to give shots impact, however, sometimes, rules are there to be broken so you can still get a good shot without the rule of thirds.
Exposure is sometimes an issue, it's no good taking a great photograph in a dark light where the flash ruins the shot, or equally on a sunny day where the bonnet of a silver or white car is over exposed to the point that it disappears to a white haze.
Especially in dark conditions, put your camera on the tripod, wall, floor, other car or whatever the surface is, frame the shot as you would like it, set the camera to timer and let it take the shot on a longer exposure, the light won't be such an issue then.
If possible, used a dedicated camera to take shots, not a tablet or mobile phone, they might state a pixel count but a 10 million pixel count on a DSLR, for instance is very different to the same count on a phone, the size of the sensor on the camera is a key factor for the finished product.
I don't want to sound like a know all because I am far from that but if you just follow these basic techniques and practices, I guarantee that you will be taking better shots in no time at all. I have read quite a lot and obviously some has sunk in, I'm not suggesting that everybody likes photography, but clean shots with the car as the subject, correctly exposed with no aberrations will have more appeal and impact to the people that are likely to be voting, that is unless they are voting purely out of friendship or otherwise.
You need to ensure that the quality of the shot is good too, that there are no major aberrations in the photograph, milky or grey colour to the shot.
Location is a key point, a photograph of someones car in their drive is not as attractive as one taken in an interesting setting.
Ensure that there are no distractions that spoil the photograph, think about when a portrait shot is taken and a balloon in the background appears to be growing out of the subjects head, or litter on the floor in the final shot. We all know that if you have editing software you can get rid of it after but why not spend a couple of minutes before taking the shot?
If you are constrained by the geography of your chosen site, take the photograph in the biggest format possible getting as much of the desirable features (i.e. car and setting) and crop the clutter from the shot with post editing software.
Always take several shots rather than one, but experiment with different angles too, you may just see something different.
The rule of thirds is if you imagine the frame has two horizontal lines and two vertical lines equally spaced, some cameras have a function whereby you can set them to show the lines, try and get your subject on the lines or even better where they intersect, it's common practice for professional photographers to do this to give shots impact, however, sometimes, rules are there to be broken so you can still get a good shot without the rule of thirds.
Exposure is sometimes an issue, it's no good taking a great photograph in a dark light where the flash ruins the shot, or equally on a sunny day where the bonnet of a silver or white car is over exposed to the point that it disappears to a white haze.
Especially in dark conditions, put your camera on the tripod, wall, floor, other car or whatever the surface is, frame the shot as you would like it, set the camera to timer and let it take the shot on a longer exposure, the light won't be such an issue then.
If possible, used a dedicated camera to take shots, not a tablet or mobile phone, they might state a pixel count but a 10 million pixel count on a DSLR, for instance is very different to the same count on a phone, the size of the sensor on the camera is a key factor for the finished product.
I don't want to sound like a know all because I am far from that but if you just follow these basic techniques and practices, I guarantee that you will be taking better shots in no time at all. I have read quite a lot and obviously some has sunk in, I'm not suggesting that everybody likes photography, but clean shots with the car as the subject, correctly exposed with no aberrations will have more appeal and impact to the people that are likely to be voting, that is unless they are voting purely out of friendship or otherwise.
