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Old Apr 9, 2007 | 01:56 PM
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Let me know what you guys think. I'm still learning. I got 10+ more pics later tonight of my car and my buddy vince's teggie.

Alvin

PS More pics next week as well after I get my Seibon hood and Brembo brakes w/ StopTech rotors

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this is the old pic every one was talking about http://home.comcast.net/~huyphongn/SLR_1.JPG
New uploaded pics!---------------

























----------Last pic is my buddy Vince taking a pic of me photgraphing my ride =) --------------


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Old Apr 9, 2007 | 01:59 PM
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looks like a good pic to me. a little dark in the front of the car...lighting could have been better and the background too but not bad
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Old Apr 9, 2007 | 02:02 PM
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looks like a good pic to me. a little dark in the front of the car...lighting could have been better and the background too but not bad
Thanks for the positive critism, exactly what I was looking for. It was overcast yesterday but I did get some night shots hopefully I will be posting those tonight and see what you think.
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Old Apr 9, 2007 | 02:02 PM
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exposure looks off, and did u contrast it in photoshop?

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Old Apr 9, 2007 | 02:11 PM
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the car kind of looks like it's floating hahaha
and you washed out all the detail in that pic x___X' darks are too dark, lights are too light.
:P nice car though!
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Old Apr 9, 2007 | 02:15 PM
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it hurt my eyes ahhhh

nice pics
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Old Apr 9, 2007 | 03:05 PM
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nice pice, although ti seems to have too much contrast and a warm tint to it, I don't mind the tint, or the contrast but much of the detail is lost. If you did some spot erasing with some brush work on the contrast layer you could keep the effect and save the detail, or take the dodge tool to parts the original.
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Old Apr 9, 2007 | 05:56 PM
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hope you don't mind but I saw this pic and I was wondering what else could I do to it
Attached Thumbnails Playing with my new Nikon D70 - More pics to come!-slr_1lr.jpg   Playing with my new Nikon D70 - More pics to come!-slr_1.jpg  

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Old Apr 9, 2007 | 06:01 PM
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Originally Posted by MR_X
hope you don't mind but I saw this pic and I was wondering what else could I do to it
the car blends in with the backround too much in the grayscale pic
like I said before, you washed out all the details. =/
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Old Apr 9, 2007 | 06:43 PM
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too much contrast adjustment it seems. pictures don't tell the story though, i can tell that car is bad ***. LOVE the GT-2s
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Old Apr 9, 2007 | 06:57 PM
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Originally Posted by monokuroboo
the car blends in with the backround too much in the grayscale pic
like I said before, you washed out all the details. =/
I know, I was just playing around with the original pic.

To the op, got the unedited pic?
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Old Apr 9, 2007 | 07:20 PM
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Nice car!
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it's a nice picture.. good location and decent composition.. BUT try more moderate or no enhancements to your pics in PS if you are starting out.. it's very overdone and honestly super boosting color and contrast is what all PS noobs do with their first photos..

Lets see this picture before PS... I bet it's 100x nicer..

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Old Apr 9, 2007 | 08:35 PM
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Originally Posted by leemik

Lets see this picture before PS... I bet it's 100x nicer..
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Old Apr 9, 2007 | 08:42 PM
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Ok I'm going to upload some new pics now =)
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yep what mike says. lets see the original. Us PS pros can prolly make it look good. hahah.
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Old Apr 9, 2007 | 08:49 PM
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Originally Posted by leemik
it's a nice picture.. good location and decent composition.. BUT try more moderate or no enhancements to your pics in PS if you are starting out.. it's very overdone and honestly super boosting color and contrast is what all PS noobs do with their first photos..

Lets see this picture before PS... I bet it's 100x nicer..

--mike
Thanks bro, definitely keeping those points in mind. It's hard when you don't have any guidance from the pros, that's why I'm posting the pics here to get advice and tips from you guys. Hopefully I can perfect it, I'm keeping my d70 with at 24/7 now taking pics of everything haha
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Old Apr 9, 2007 | 09:04 PM
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Awesome camera, I used the D70 quite a bit when I was still in NYC. By far one of the most superior cameras. I plan on picking one up in a few weeks.

What lenses did you get?
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Old Apr 9, 2007 | 09:05 PM
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yea. u just got a little happy with the contrast in the first photo. The orginal is much nicer. Beginning photographers go nuts with photoshop, its photographer nub disease.

I edited 2 of your shots a little in CS2. Save em if u want cuz ima gonna delete them off my host in a day.

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Old Apr 9, 2007 | 09:23 PM
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I also took 2 of your shots also and played with them a little. I just play with the shadow/highlight settings, and not much. In the one with the rear shot, I play with those setting more than usual and it end up adding noise to the background. I "reduced" it by adding blur to the back ground, but not a whole lot. In some shot I like to add gradient to the top or corners. It makes the unused part of the picture more inviting, if you want to call it that.
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