[gradualepiphany]

thanks guys! zone - are there any ones in particular you'd like high res, or just all of them? I can certainly make high-res versions...

photography is my hobby - for some reason I havn't had the time to do a real decent shoot with my car yet, the m-coupe I was specifically trying to get shots of his car for him... I definately need to do a better job with the STi

[joscolem]

Thanks for the updates.

Looking at this post with this music
http://www.hepcatradio.com/delete/cantinabeat.mp3 makes me happy

[WESTI]

nice pics

[Parker]

Originally Posted by DARKSTI

I was about to say what kind of filters?

Shots look great though, as does the car

are we supposed to think alike all the time? hahahah!

I thought about his PP techniques but then when he said filters, it made a little more sense.

your filters are causing a little bit of underexposure but that can be fixed by stopping your aperture down to let a little more light in. the rich dark blue you're getting in the sky can be fixed with a little PP to get it to look like these if you'd like. but i'd like to be able to see the ground and trees a little better.

[gradualepiphany]

Originally Posted by Parker

your filters are causing a little bit of underexposure but that can be fixed by stopping your aperture down to let a little more light in. the rich dark blue you're getting in the sky can be fixed with a little PP to get it to look like these if you'd like. but i'd like to be able to see the ground and trees a little better.

heh - I was actually intentionally underexposing my yosemite photos - I'll often try to go for a "look" when I go take photo trips - sometimes the look is more successful than other times sometimes I'll play with adjusting things (generally mildly) when I'm developing the .raw files to get a different feel to the images - I really really really want to get a medium format and learn how to do darkroom processing with real film but for now I'm stuck with the digital

I usually will use NDs and underexpose for images when I want to sky to take over and dominate the image, although you're right I usually lose a lot of detail in the ground areas. I'd like to get a square-filter system with grad-ed NDs as well to help out with that problem...

if anybody's interested in seeing any of my other stuff (I should probably keep this thread fairly car and road trip focused) I have a website for my photography at www.gradualepiphany.com it's not the best thing ever but it gets the job done

[StillSpoolin2.0]

Very nice!!!

[ablair544]

[Late]

I do like the feel and look of the pics. I like that they're washed out a little bit. But I would like to see them lighter, or at least a full range of tones. I like to see a full range, even if the whitest whites only account for 2% of the image and the rest of the tones are in the darker range. Another thing that's unnerving about some of them, like the dead tree ones, is that because of the shadows (and contrast) you can tell it was taken mid-day but they're still dark as if taken in twilight, so something in my head says it isn't right. Are any of them hdr images? Maybe playing around with that to get a few of the lighter tones in there would help.

Good luck with the medium format setup too. I've got an OLD Hasselblad (1000F I think) with a screw mount lens that I picked up real cheap but anything new is gonna cost some decent money (especially the lenses, good god). And the darkroom setup if you're doing your own will cost a good amount for decent equip. I went to school for for a few years for photography and enjoyed it, but given the choice I'd stick with a nice digital camera & printer and learn photoshop to save money.

[ghibli99]

Some PP work on those pics to make them pop just a bit more would really help. I like them (the skies came out especially great w/ your filters!), but they do seem a bit underexposed and flat.

-Mike

[[z0ne]]

Originally Posted by gradualepiphany

thanks guys! zone - are there any ones in particular you'd like high res, or just all of them? I can certainly make high-res versions...

All, if possible.

Thanks in advance.

[gradualepiphany]

by PP work do you mean photo editing work? as in Paintshop Pro? I own Photoshop CS2 and I was a computer art major at the Savannah College of Art and Design (I do visual effects for film nowadays) so I'm quite adept at and do a little bit of photo manipulation but I try to leave most of my photographs fairly close to what was actualy captured in-camera.

z0ne - comin right up...

p.s. if you want higher res than 1280x800 I can do that as well...

[gradualepiphany]

alright - 1280x800 for the zone of the 4 mcoupe photos I posted:










and z0ne - if you have M coupe love and want to see the rest of the ones from that roadtrip, they live here and here

[Ikon]

niec pictre

[ghibli99]

Originally Posted by gradualepiphany

by PP work do you mean photo editing work? as in Paintshop Pro?

PP = post-processing. And yes, by that, I mean Photoshop or other image-editing tools.

-Mike

[gradualepiphany]

gotcha - thanks for the clarification mike

I think I may have also discovered another problem - I have a laptop with an extremely bright high contrast LCD that I've been using for my photo editing, and when I pull up my pictures on someone else's CRT they tend to look a lot darker - I have calibrated my monitor but I think from now on when I color balance photos I should probably dim my monitor a bit... thanks for pointing this out guys!