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Cars are one of the most popular subjects for photographers, they’re designed to look stylish and evoke an emotional response. Most men would probably love to photograph cars for a living but few people are lucky enough to make a living doing that.  No, most of us will have to be satisfied with doing it as a hobby but that’s ok, it’s still a lot of fun!

I have decided to break this tutorial down into several parts as it’s too much information to digest in one go.

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I had the opportunity to buy a second hand but nearly new Nikon D200 digital SLR at a great price.

As I had recently purchased a new lens for my D40X the kit lens was surplus to requirements so I decided to sell my 4 month old Nikon D40X kit along with the spare battery, case and remote and 52mm filter. I put it on Ebay and it sold within the week leaving me just over £100 to find to get the D200 body (I managed to haggle £100 off the asking price for a quick sale!).

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 It’s a little known fact that all monitors display colours slightly differently.  For example some have a bit of a blue tint to them, some an orange tint and so on. The brightness and saturation is often way off too, normally set far too high from the factory (to catch your attention in the shop).

So why should you care?  Well, do you share your photos by uploading them online?  If you’ve darkened down your photo because you thought it was too bright someone with a properly calibrated monitor will see it as being too dark.

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