http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2327/...ac16c7ba_o.jpg


http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2096/...4e61d3ba_o.jpg

wooo awesome shots :D mike

like the e30 shot the most. don't like the a3 one :(

nice pics of ur car mike
when r u gonna shoot my car XP

Alrighty, I finally got my hands on a DSLR of my very own for Christmas (been using Canon's from work), and haven't had much time to play with it until today. I thought I'd take some pics of a car I stopped by at a dealership to look at simply to get some frames out of it... actually, truth be told, I went to a dealership to buy the damn car, but since they were closed I figured I may as well take a few pics to drool over until Monday...

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a2...1/GT6rear1.jpg

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a2...tter1/GT64.jpg

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a2...tter1/GT63.jpg

And a shot of the whole car... it's shitty composition I know, but hey, what else can you do on a closed dealership lot?

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a2...tter1/GT62.jpg

http://x27.xanga.com/320c04743273016...b125556968.jpg
shot this a while ago but never posted it here. image quality went down after uploading oh wells.

-yes it is two diff sti's ;) and yes one is cream and one is white ;) rofls.. mm cream or is it cream w.e

http://x6f.xanga.com/4e4c23732773316...b125558604.jpg

http://x74.xanga.com/68ec1530c463116...b123008272.jpg
sky is on fire!!! :D mm dirty sti

Cool, how did you do the lighting?

the lighting was from the adjacent factorys:D haha it was perfect

http://x17.xanga.com/48ec02f17673016...w122099134.jpg

this was my scoutting shot .. which i took a couple days before..

http://xf4.xanga.com/54fc176318c3116...w122099120.jpg

ps you sleep late or wake up early :D i didn't sleep but im going boarding now :D

I haven't slept yet.

lol.


man, those are some awesome shots. tnxs for posting the "Scouting shots" too, its interesting to see how you got the idea. The lighting in the scouting shots is more purple, but in your photos is oranage, which makes it really good. but howd you do it?

^^ Cloudy vs. clear skies.

white balance I'm assuming? Or playing with the saturation...

levels. levelsss levels.levels.

clouds vs time of day ..

scouting was at sunset.
shoot was around 2 - 3am :) vroom i sleep late or don't sleep at all

How do you propose doing it in levels?

maybe the levels of the different channels? That's the only way I can think of that levels could possibly change colour, but that changes the tint of the whole picture, so I'm not too sure lol

mask...levels..curves...blah blah..i dunno...jordan give us a tutorial :)!!!

He already did.

NO! IT'S PHOTOSHOP!! DUH ;)

I love how the debate still rides on, even though he's told you what it was.

I'd say that due to the longer exposures where there is no sun to lighten the horizon, and therefore diffract blue light (blue sky... atmospheric stuff, I forget, Science was a LONG time ago).

In any case, at 2-3am, the moon is usually at its peak, which means that most light you'll get is either from the moon, which is soft, or ambient light in the distance. I would be willing to bet there's some sign of life back there near those clouds, and street lights are probably running rampant through the streets! The longer the exposure, the more light there is, and sometimes it's light that we don't even see... as shown in his scouting photos, because I can almost guarantee you that he didn't see any sign of sunlight, or a lightened horizon when he took the photos.

Anyone who's still curious about this, I recommend you take your camera and tripod, an go sit in a field, or park or something, and take varied exposures over the time that the sun sets, and the sun rises. There are some amazing thigns that you can see with the help of a long exposure!

Too bad it's difficult to take very long exposures with digital - sensors heat up causing noise/ghosting and batteries run out.
Then with colour film you have problems with reciprocity failure.

Interesting point! I have yet to actually buy a tripod on this side of the water, so I haven't been shooting in the dark... good to know I have some bad stuff to look forward too though. Haha.

HDR of a buddy's car:

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d7...0949_7_8-3.jpg

Nice HDR!

Here's a photo i took:

http://i6.tinypic.com/71da1bl.jpg

nice rotas

if you have a photo editing program try using unsharp mask to make it pop a bit more ;)

here's another:

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d7...0866_4_5-3.jpg