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Old Jun 22, 2008 | 07:40 PM
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Hey guys. Today I took some photos of my friend's 2007 WRX. Some of them turned out better than i thought. This is my first real attempt at taking decent photos. Tell me what you think of these.
I would like some suggestions. What did I do wrong? How can I improve my photography? And where should I go for tutorials for HDR? Any other general pointers? Any pointers will be great.

Here is the whole album:
http://s237.photobucket.com/albums/f...albumview=grid

Here are some of my favorite from today:









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Old Jun 22, 2008 | 07:46 PM
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Old Jun 22, 2008 | 07:48 PM
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Sorry? Mind telling me whats wrong with them?
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Old Jun 22, 2008 | 07:49 PM
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Is the kid old enough to drive??
Good pic though!!

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Originally Posted by Nic@CiNcity
Is the guy old enough to drive??
Good pic though!!
Haha I knew that would definitely come up. He is 17. Looks really little though lol.
Thanks by the way. I was hanging out of the rear window to take that. I tried to adjust ISO settings to get more of a blur but didnt succeed.

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Old Jun 22, 2008 | 09:47 PM
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17? damn. I drove an 83 Mazda with fukked up tranny at 17.
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Old Jun 22, 2008 | 09:49 PM
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Haha I knew that would definitely come up. He is 17. Looks really little though lol.
Thanks by the way. I was hanging out of the rear window to take that. I tried to adjust ISO settings to get more of a blur but didnt succeed.
its not the ISO its the shutter speed your looking for.
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Old Jun 22, 2008 | 10:10 PM
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for the blur, try slowing down the shutter speed....i'm not too sure what to slow it down too tho. some of the photo experts can suggest shutter speed for ya.

good looking pics tho. how much post processing did you do?
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Thanks for the input. I couldnt get to the shutter speed and i never really tried it. I will the next time. As for the processing, about 5 minutes per picture. I only edited about 20 of them. The rest are raw. The ones I edited are the rich colored ones (brownish ones) and the black and white ones.
I only adjusted Exposure, Highlight/Shadow balance, Brightness and contrast. Didnt get into color balances.

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buy and HDR camera......it helps allot
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Originally Posted by _NIZMO_
buy and HDR camera......it helps allot
HDR cameras... i didnt know they existed.

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Old Jun 23, 2008 | 05:20 AM
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Originally Posted by _NIZMO_
buy and HDR camera......it helps allot

O.o
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Originally Posted by Concave
O.o
isnt it just high contrast low contrast image composition? Not through a camera?
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Originally Posted by black06z
17? damn. I drove an 83 Mazda with fukked up tranny at 17.
+1

kids these days
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Old Jun 23, 2008 | 06:40 AM
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they'd be much better if they were pics of a Z
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Too much angle in some of them. Makes me want to tilt my head
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Originally Posted by Nic@CiNcity
Is the kid old enough to drive??
Good pic though!!

I'm sorry but I have to

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Originally Posted by _NIZMO_
buy and HDR camera......it helps allot
Where can we get one of this fancy HDR cameras?
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Originally Posted by Apothyosis
Too much angle in some of them. Makes me want to tilt my head
Yeah... I know
Ill fix that in my next ones
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Originally Posted by MR_X
I'm sorry but I have to
Well good.
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