hmmm... you may want to turn down the strength a little on the HDR effects. You car doesn't look white anymore except for a very few highlights. I'm all for HDR but when a pic looks like a photoshop nightmare, it ruins the image. At least try to keep the car or the main object in your pictures as realistic or close to real looking as possible. But if your going for the surreal look, forget about everything I previously said.

 

Thanks I'm still tinkering around with different settings to find out what I like. It's deffinitely "laid on thick" so to speak in those pics. I like they way they turned out cuz that's what I wanted was a heavily exagerated version of it but I know with more messing around I can get it to the type that you are talking about. I mainly got the ideas above from Alvin's recent pics by the Space Needle.

 

Something like this...

 

Better. You went from extreme(1st pics) to subtle in this pic. Everyone has their happy medium so don't sweat it. There is no right or wrong way when it comes to art.

 

I know I'm whoring these pics but I'll take more when I get my car out of the body shop for some cosmetic changes. Or maybe I should just wait for my new wheels before I have another photo shoot. Anywho, these are for anyone who hasn't seen them yet. Camera = Fuji Finepix S7000/shot in RAW/HDR processed in Photomatix Pro & touched up in CS2.

 

wow I remember your pics from awhile ago. They turned out awesome. I suggest taking pics with whatever mods you put on to kind of have a time line of your Z.

 

To me it's not really enhancing the photo, if the original photo was great already I say don't mess with a good thing. These HDR just looks too artificial and overly done.

 

A lot of these HDRs seems overly saturated as well.

 

A couple months old:

 

Point taken I guess the best way to explain it is like a stock Z is stunning the way it is. but we add parts to make it pop out more from the normal one we see everday. But I deffinitely understand where you're coming from and know there are TONS of non HDR pics that would look worse if they did go through that process...

EDIT: Taurran stunning pics as usual....

 

New at this HDR thing and was just messing around really. Hope it passes...and yes I know I need to drop my car =P

 

Nothing wrong with not having a drop. Looks pretty good but it's a little dark. Got any others?

 

I'd like to see you bring out the color in your calipers more. very dark.

 

nah so far this is the first time I actually took a full body pic of my car. It's not finished yet so I don't really want to take pics. Yeah I'm weird like that.

 

No worries you're not weird just meticulous...

 

 

^^^ Wow love HDR on graffiti. Only gripe is the Splitter looks way out of place. Otherwise nice pics.

 

omg i love this shot

 

nice, not overly done..