Over-the-top colors

The old cars constantly captivated my photo tour group and I in Cuba. On our last day we visited a famous artist's house (Jose Fuster) where the entire property -- and that of his neighbors' -- have been covered by wild and artistic designs in tile. His work seemed to me to be an amalgam of Picasso and Dali. Parked in front of a neighbor's house were two 50's cars painted in wild colors, and with the background wall I thought it made a strong image. There were openings in the wall through which you could see a house, so I cut and pasted additional tile designs to plug up what I felt were distracting portions of the image. I also darkened the pavement because, in my opinion, there are four things that should always be minimized in a picture: dirt, gravel, asphalt, and concrete. My settings for this were 1/250, f/11, 400 ISO, and I used a 24-105mm lens.