A good trick is to go tele and photograph a car from a distance. Then your background will be blurred to the maximum using manual settings. Better yet is to select the car with the point-to-point tool and blurr the background a bit. With some nifty tricks you can make it appear naturally.

It's a damn shame these cars are so rarely seen, everytime i see one my head turns almost 180 degrees

 

da twins!!

 

The ripped twins

 

Our triceps weel crosh you like leetle walnut


haha lol

nice work though, the black and white one is nice. You should get a small soft light kit though, I can tell that it would have helped to splash a bit of light onto the wheels, that way the dark areas can still be dark, but you'll get detail in the wheels

 

Awesome photography,( Z or no Z), What magazines can we find your work in? Dave

 

Hey JCD: can you direct me to any real good books on digital photography? also, if you know any real good books on photo shop 7, please let me know. thanks in advance.

btw, what kind of camera are you using. do you normally shoot with or without the flash? i have yet to use my flash, i like capturing the natural light. i found out that a tripod is a must for great pictures. here are a few more of my recent pics JCD. any constructive criticism is welcomed!

getting to understand PS 7 a little bit more


this pic is a bit slnted but can be fixed with photoshop

 

cool cluster

 

vitaminZ:

I dont have any books, practise is my teacher. So never took photography classes, but i will explain why i take great pictures.

I started with a Canon Powershot S10 (simple little point and shoot 2.1mp) then i bought a Sony DSC-F707 (hence www.f707.net) then i upgraded to my Canon EOS 10D and secondary 300D DSL camera.

Good tricks: Whitebalance manually, especially those garage shots need to be WB-manually. Those artificial lights fool the algorithms too easly. See the manual for that. And no; wb in photoshop is terrible (to correct it lateron) the best way to capture it in one frame with exact whitebalance. Use a plain white A4 sheet of paper for this.

Tripod with a handremote (wired) to trigger the shutter. Cause you need to go in slower shuttertime with these darker light enviroments (although, i have to with my dslr) to get that 'dreamy' effect. Also toy around with longer exposuretimes in 'near' complete darkness. You can archieve really nice frames with that.

An example of a longer exposure:

http://www.f707.net/portfolio/nightshade.htm
This shot was taken using a heavvy Bogen tripod with a 70-200mm f2.8 (very sharp lens) and exposure was for about 8 seconds at iso 100. Which brings me at iso, for these shots you dont use any higher then 200. You can go higher, but noise will get in your way. But this can be (especially in B&W photography) a very nice effect, you get that film-like look.

Further, the handremote (to trigger the camera to take a snap) without touching the camera is a must for low light photograpy. You can also use the timerfunction, but the downside is you need to wait 3 - 8 seconds for each picture. And some camera's jump back from timermode to 'direct' mode after a shot (like the Sony's do).

Your shots look already great, so you are much more evolved than you think in photography. But experimenting is never a waste of time. The transparent hood is nice, but you could also place a selection of the complete front hood as transparent, not only the engine bit.

Send me the shots in 1600x1200 resolution and i'll show you what i mean. (jgenders@box.nl)

 

I need to learn how to use photoshop, so I can "tweak and enhance" my pictures. I have a 6.3mp camera I cant even "fix" pics like the guys with 2.1?

 

Resolution is not entirely the issue, taking shots correctly rightaway IS the issue. But with editing every megapixel counts. And with cropping a higher format is better to work with.

 

that black/white picture of your white Z is very simple and nice.

 

these pictures are ridiculously sexy man, A++

i've just found my new screen saver

 

The dutch Nissan side had hired the local track for one day, it was a Nissan Circuit Experience day. Where 50 Z owners could participate in various events like making circular drifts around pylons and breaking exercises. And most of all, drive in your own Z over the "Zandvoort-Track". I had the oppertunity to do a lap myself... was really great. I could have gone a bit faster, but we drove in groups.

Anyway: see the pictures;

http://www.f707.net/gallery/nissancircuitexperience/

 

Nice PPW Z- i was thinking of doing that vent in the front bumper, too. Was it hard? Did u do it urself?

 

ya, i did it myself!! it wasn't hard! you could purchase it here
www.bulletproofautomotive.com or www.varisusa.com

i will furnish some install instructions soon!!

my Z is in the varis usa gallery, take a look:
http://www.varisusa.com/gallery.shtml

tommorow i will take and make a pic like the one below but i wiil focus on the area around the air duct/intake. i will take it from a much higher angle almost looking down on the area.

 

thanks JCD for the help. i will print out what you recommended i work on and give it a try

here is some new stuff i was working on

 

Those are great pics of a SS Z!

 

JCD: sorry to invade your thread with my pics, butt and i repeat, butt i have to post this one!!! lol maybe i should start a picture thread, not just any pictures but screen saver/media quuality pics!

 

Nice! No wonder you didn't call us back this weekend, you must have been busy doing a photo shoot!

 

sorry, i have to add my pic