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My friends' BMW. Still working on the photo skills. Site sucked, would have loved to be in a warehouse or something. Right now, it's just a matter of getting the right lens (would love a 10-12mm, and a 125+mm), right location, right tools (ladder), right lighting (need fill-in flash)... f.
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Lookin good. +1 on more pics of the Z.
The background isn't that bad as it isn't busy enough to take away from the car and has some good contrasting colors. One thing I noticed is that it appears that the image was sharpened which gave you some hard lined (bad) bokeh in the background.
The background isn't that bad as it isn't busy enough to take away from the car and has some good contrasting colors. One thing I noticed is that it appears that the image was sharpened which gave you some hard lined (bad) bokeh in the background.
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Originally Posted by FairladyZX
nice shots! can we see more of you ppw too
1. My fave "photo" yet.
2. A night shot, low light= tripod
3. Yet another night shot... this was taken with very low light. Tripod a must.
4. Accidentally took this great shot with great color. Time of day really matters. I feel so rushed sometimes.
5. Passing by the now defunct Waialua Sugar Mill during work, and wondered what a great place to take photos.
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8. Loved the rust. Taken at the Waialua Farmers Market.
9. Overcast day at the Haleiwa piers.
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Some misc shots of Haleiwa (North Shore).
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What kind of camera do you have? You should invest in a circu. polar
Black cars are always tough to take pictures of thats why you don't see them on the cover of magazines often
Black cars are always tough to take pictures of thats why you don't see them on the cover of magazines often
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The pics of your Z look 10000x better than the ones of the Bimmer .. That Sugar Mill location is pimp!!!.. I'd go back and take some nice long setup shots.. no quickies driving by at work.. haha
The Bimmer pics looks oversaturated
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The Bimmer pics looks oversaturated
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Originally Posted by UrbanTacticZ
What kind of camera do you have? You should invest in a circu. polar
Black cars are always tough to take pictures of thats why you don't see them on the cover of magazines often
Black cars are always tough to take pictures of thats why you don't see them on the cover of magazines often
I found that shooting black cars are tough that day. Metering was all over the place. It was like, do I aim it at the dark part of the body, or the highlights?? Next time, I'll use Auto bracketing. Learnt alot that day, even though location was not the best.
BTW, I always keep a circular polarizer on the lens instead of a UV filter. Even for night shots as it helps with reflections on glass if you don't want them.
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Originally Posted by leemik
The pics of your Z look 10000x better than the ones of the Bimmer .. That Sugar Mill location is pimp!!!.. I'd go back and take some nice long setup shots.. no quickies driving by at work.. haha
The Bimmer pics looks oversaturated
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The Bimmer pics looks oversaturated
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Until I get that 28-135 IS lens from Canon, I can't really do long focal length shots. I wanna flatten out that bumper from 3/4 views. I was comparing and looking at some shots you took at 150mm at 3/4 view to some I took on my P&S at about the same view, and man, that bumper just flattened out compared to my pics. Again, your pics are motivation for me to pluck it down for a proper telephoto lens. I think 135 is enough reach for me. Hope i don't go hardcore enough to shoot birds, that'll really break the bank.
The shots with the Bimmer were taken with RAW enabled. I was fiddling around with the Canon program. I tend to like the artificial oversaturation in the pics. In hindsight, look like I overdid it Found out that working with RAW preserves alot of settings, and that even some severly under/over exposed shots are salvageble. I'm shooting in RAW from now on, as JPG artifacts isn't really a big deal, but RAW just allows for more post processing options all the while being "lossless."
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Originally Posted by 350dgrz
Wow brah nice pics!!! Makes me miss home...Your cars are lookin' good!
Lemme guess, you're from Hawaii Kai?
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U must have been hell of a quick learner in school.... Ur photo shoot of the Z is hell better than the once of the beemer u improved big time man congrats and by the way ur car looks great keep it and try to go for light colour cars in the begining its a lot easier for the focus and the colour coading in a photo... Good luck and all the best man..
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after I scrolled up, the z photos are composed pretty well. was that the look you were going for in terms of white balance? if not, you should try playing with the custom white balance feature.
read the manual on that part and go back out during the night and try the shot again
read the manual on that part and go back out during the night and try the shot again
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