Mopars at Brooklands (50 Photos)
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Very, very yum . . . I like that speedpic too.
Must've been a nice sounding convoy. Great pics, thanx.
O/T without PS, just a slow shutterspeed
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Must've been a nice sounding convoy. Great pics, thanx.
O/T without PS, just a slow shutterspeed
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gopher said:
Some good photo's there, thanks.
Excuse my extreme ignorance but what is a MOPAR?
Cheers.
MOPAR is the parts department at Chrysler, stands for More Parts. It is the collective name for cars made by Chrysler, Dodge and Plymouth and is usually used to describe thier Muscle Cars from the mid sixties to mid seventies.
The second effort is much better Nick, got rid of the ghosting around the cars. Another set of all round high quality pics. I still enjoy your digital treatment, especially the narrower aspect ratio and groovy little "watermark" in the corner.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mopar
gopher said:
Excuse my extreme ignorance but what is a MOPAR?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mopar
gopher said:
Some good photo's there, thanks.
Excuse my extreme ignorance but what is a MOPAR?
it isnt a mustang or cobra
Its anything within the Chrysler group which includes Dodge,Jeep etc, MOPAR is the OE parts name, MOtorPARts
Though most refer MOPAR to the old muscle cars
>> Edited by Viper on Tuesday 30th May 21:54
badbeachbuggy said:
Some good photo's there, thanks.
Excuse my extreme ignorance but what is a MOPAR?
Cheers.
MOPAR is the parts department at Chrysler, stands for More Parts. It is the collective name for cars made by Chrysler, Dodge and Plymouth and is usually used to describe thier Muscle Cars from the mid sixties to mid seventies.
Thanks, (and to all subsequent replies) hole in knowledge now filled
I’ve had a few requests to know how the motion was created in this photo so here’s a little tutorial. All was done in Photoshop CS2.
Step 1
I opened up the original file, as you can see it is a little underexposed, this was to retain the detail as there was a lot of glare coming from the windscreens. Have a look for anything that needs fixing, in this case the Plymouths wheels weren’t pointing forward so I had a play with those by using the Polygonal Lasso, Free Transform and then fixing any bits missing with the Clone Tool.
Step 2
Using the Polygonal Lasso I created two new layers (one for each car) that will eventually sit right on top of the image. I created two layers in case I needed to adjust the levels on each car separately (I didn’t in the end).
Step 3
Making a copy of the background layer I cloned out the cars, this is so that when you create the motion blur bits of the car do not create a halo around the cars. You can be pretty rough with this as it is covered and blurred later on.
Step 4
Using the Filter, Blur, Radial Blur select Zoom and best quality, I think I used about 20 for the setting. I offset the centre to the left to be behind the Satellite.
Step 5
Put the layers in the right order. I decided to sort the colour and everything else as a whole so flattened the image and saved it as another file.
Step 6
Now I used the Show/Highlight Tool and played with the levels to sort out the exposure. Gave the image some more colour via saturation and contrast. Once all that was done I ran it through Noise Ninja to clean it up a little.
I think that was all!
Step 1
I opened up the original file, as you can see it is a little underexposed, this was to retain the detail as there was a lot of glare coming from the windscreens. Have a look for anything that needs fixing, in this case the Plymouths wheels weren’t pointing forward so I had a play with those by using the Polygonal Lasso, Free Transform and then fixing any bits missing with the Clone Tool.
Step 2
Using the Polygonal Lasso I created two new layers (one for each car) that will eventually sit right on top of the image. I created two layers in case I needed to adjust the levels on each car separately (I didn’t in the end).
Step 3
Making a copy of the background layer I cloned out the cars, this is so that when you create the motion blur bits of the car do not create a halo around the cars. You can be pretty rough with this as it is covered and blurred later on.
Step 4
Using the Filter, Blur, Radial Blur select Zoom and best quality, I think I used about 20 for the setting. I offset the centre to the left to be behind the Satellite.
Step 5
Put the layers in the right order. I decided to sort the colour and everything else as a whole so flattened the image and saved it as another file.
Step 6
Now I used the Show/Highlight Tool and played with the levels to sort out the exposure. Gave the image some more colour via saturation and contrast. Once all that was done I ran it through Noise Ninja to clean it up a little.
I think that was all!
badbeachbuggy said:
Step 3
Making a copy of the background layer I cloned out the cars, this is so that when you create the motion blur bits of the car do not create a halo around the cars. You can be pretty rough with this as it is covered and blurred later on.
@ Nick: thank you for the explanation, but I don't know how to do a copy of the background layer?
thanks in advance!
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