The only thing about Facebook is that it still has a very affluent and engaged user group.

If your using IG there’s no reason not to use Facebook and control the two of them using the meta business suite.

The social media platforms aren’t doing anyone any favours anymore. If you want engagement you pay for it. Bottom line, these are advertising companies and if your not paying for advertising your not their customer, you’re an end user.

For many small community groups there is still no real alternative to Facebook, so your local sports groups, your local games groups, parent groups, special interests groups, they are all still on Meta platforms and they all have money to spend which makes them the main target of online advertising platforms.

Guess I’ll just have to go back to setting things on fire.

Moving further away and using a longer lens might improve results, although I don’t know what focal length your using now. With a panning shot if the car is fairly close to you, the camera is rotating a bit so your getting perspective twist as well as panning.

A bit of motion blur at the rear is probably helping the effect too.

If you’re post processing you can also add a bit more motion blur. Photoshop has excellent motion blurring that allows you to set the path and exact blur. I’ve used it on shots to help the motion blur effect.

I tried it out in this image, I even separated out the image so I could have less motion blur on some parts of the image. I think it came out all right on these parked cars.

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You say these images are going into a portfolio. It’s only really an issue if your posting these in public, either online or in a gallery. If these photos will never be in the public domain then you don’t really need to worry about what people will think, because they’ll never see the images.

If your posting images publicly then I would seek permission even if I didn’t have to. I don’t want to make people feel bad or like they’re being pointed at. Or to run away and wide when they see me with a camera.

If I think the white balance is off I’ll start by using the eye dropper to see what lightroom thinks it should be and then do some adjustments afterwards. So it ends up being by feeling.

Which is why I can come back a week later and feel like I should change it slightly again.

I think a dark imagine can be difficult to find a satisfactory WB.

If you have a lightroom license you can also use bridge.

I have a low spec laptop that I used for more or less the same thing when I was in Spain, it was nothing more than a glorified back up drive. As long as you don’t want to do any editing and aren’t in a rush you don’t need anything special. I ran lightroom on the laptop, it struggled but it did the job.

I can’t even tell you the spec for the laptop, it was a refurb bought at work for €500 about 4 years ago and I bought it from the company for something like €200. So it was never anything special.

For photo I’ve used mostly lightroom/photoshop, I also got a free license for capture one with my camera (although it’s not the full version)

Capture one is good, on my fuji camera it handles the images much better, however most people won’t notice that difference. Because it’s not the full version I have it can’t really replace photoshop for me.

Adobe software costs money but it’s industry standard for a reason. It’s getting easier and easier to use with the new AI stuff. Unless the monthly charge is out of out budget I’d go with photoshop/lightroom. They are worth it at the end of the day and there’s a never ending supply of tutorials online. You can literally think of anything and there’s a good chance there’s a tutorial video showing you how to do it on Youtube.

No brainer, Resolve is amazing, it’s crazy that its free.