Prepare.

It’s not always fun.  In fact, sometimes the hours may seem long.  It might not feel like you’re making any progress.  Yet, success comes from preparation.  The hours you spend preparing make for more positive, more uplifting and more successful hours in the time when it counts.

 

Plan For Success

Part of the preparation phase is planning for success.  This is about getting yourself into a state of belief.  Belief in yourself, and that you can accomplish the task before you.  To take this one step further, beyond a belief in yourself, it’s also believing you can be excellent.

 

Focus

During your preparation, it’s important to focus.  Focus on what’s important to know and do.  Focus on those things that you’ll need to do to be successful.  Work on them until you feel good about where you are.  And no matter what it is you’re preparing for, look at both the mental and physical realms that will need your focus.

 

Understand

Understand what you are preparing for.  Ask yourself the question “Do I know what it is I’m trying to accomplish?”.  Answer it honestly.  If your answer doesn’t make sense, or if it seems out of alignment with what you see the end result is, then focus more on understanding the scope of what you’re tackling.  Sometimes tasks/projects/games can be ambiguous.  When you encounter ambiguity, take the time to understand. Understanding will then lead back to the focus you need to continue on.

 

Pace Yourself

Preparation isn’t all about seeing how fast you can get it all done.  It’s more important to focus on doing it right and focus on the quality of your work.  Prepare for success by pacing yourself.  This might mean going over one particular area many times, in an effort to get it “right”.  That’s okay.  Prep time and practice is exactly for that — for smoothing out the rough edges.

 

Succeed

If you do all the steps above, you are ready for the big “game”.  Success will be waiting for you there.  Remember also that at “game” time, as much as you’ve prepared, you may still be faced with something you hadn’t thought of.  That’s okay.  You do the best you can given what you know.  Will you succeed?  That’s a question only you can answer.  Success is waiting.  This is a journey we’re on. And one worth keeping at. Through it all, remember why it is you’re doing these things you’re doing.  Whatever it is, it should be something you want to do.

 

Be Great!

Your moment is now!  Find those things in life that have meaning to you.  And as you’re getting ready to do these things — prepare.  Prepare and put it all out there on the table.  No regrets!  This is your life.  Be great!

  Do you think it is important then to prepare a vehicle before you take photographs?

Yes!!  It is very important to have the vehicle ready and prepared before you take photographs of the car.  The dealership expects you as a qualified photographer to know what makes photographs look better and how to present them in a way that will attract customers to the dealership.

Preparing your vehicle for photos.

It is very important that you have your vehicle set up and prepared before you start taking any photos.  By doing this first, it will save you time and energy later.

To prepare your vehicle, you first need to know which vehicle you are taking a photo of, have the key ready and move the vehicle to the location where you will photograph the vehicle.

Once you have positioned the vehicle correctly, facing the sun, you will proceed to prepare the vehicle by doing the following steps:

 

Ways to prepare the vehicle:

• Park the car in the correct position to take photos.
• Put the car into "P" position and put the handbrake on so the car doesn’t move and roll.
• Straighten the steering wheel.
• Open the sunroof or moonroof if available.
• Unlock all doors.
• Remove all paper items from the car, floors and boot or trunk. eg floor mats, trash, paper items.
• Check the trunk or boot for any foreign items and remove any paper or trash.
• Make sure the seats are correctly positioned. Upright and straight.
• Prepare your camera.
• Take photos of the vehicle.
• Once complete then mark your stock sheet and car.

 

Also an important step you need to remember is that while filming a vehicle, you need to put the drivers' window down.  Why?

Because some vehicles have an automated lock system that locks once you close the doors.  If you have the engine running and you close the door without the window being down, you may lock the keys in the vehicle while the car is running and that would be very unprofessional.  That is why when getting out of the vehicle, please put the drivers' window down straight away!

All the steps above are very important.  Xcite's™ photos are professional and need to look great.  By following these simple, easy steps, (Xcite's™ Formula) your photos can turn out great too.

 

The pictures below will demonstrate some steps for you.