360 and Murcielago pics
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Finally got out today with the D70 to take some photos of GI_Jnr's cars. I'm quite pleased with some of them - here are a few - apologies to the 56k'ers...
I've upped the contrast and brightness a bit as some of them were a bit dull due to the light today, all were shot on "A" mode cos I didn't want to miss any good photos because I was messing about with "M" and got it wrong (been there).
Any comments or critiques welcome!
edited to add
I've now updated most of the pictures to correct the underexposed areas thank's to Gravymaster's advice in this thread
edited to fix my spelling and add one more pic!
>>> Edited by _dobbo_ on Sunday 30th January 17:58
>>> Edited by _dobbo_ on Monday 31st January 10:25
I've upped the contrast and brightness a bit as some of them were a bit dull due to the light today, all were shot on "A" mode cos I didn't want to miss any good photos because I was messing about with "M" and got it wrong (been there).
Any comments or critiques welcome!
edited to add
I've now updated most of the pictures to correct the underexposed areas thank's to Gravymaster's advice in this thread
edited to fix my spelling and add one more pic!
>>> Edited by _dobbo_ on Sunday 30th January 17:58
>>> Edited by _dobbo_ on Monday 31st January 10:25
gravymaster said:
some of those are really nice! especially the ones with both the cars together. A couple look a tad under exposed to me, but that could be my dying screen...
Nice one!
Matt
No I think you are right - The camera sorted the exposure for me and a lot of them are really dull and lifeless - To be honest I'm very disappointed with the colours as they came out of the camera - I was hoping to not have to get busy in photoshop to fix them all...
I've had a go with brightening them, but I think my monitor may be a bit of an obstacle to this... Need to calibrate it!
Any tips on using photoshop to correct underexposed pics?
There's a couple with a bit of shadow detail lost, but overall they are some nice images.
Some with a busy background are not so eye-catching, but where you have isolated a perspective it works very well.
Especially think that the black border helps - a small thing but presentation is all!
Some with a busy background are not so eye-catching, but where you have isolated a perspective it works very well.
Especially think that the black border helps - a small thing but presentation is all!
This bodge took literally 10 seconds.
> open photo in photoshop
>press ctrl + J to duplicate layer
>select duplicated layer and change layer mode to "screen" using the drop list next to the opacity slider
>add layer mask to duplicated layer
>select layer mask and fade it out sharply into the layer below using the gradient tool, to keep the perfectly exposed sky.
Hope this helps
matt
>> Edited by gravymaster on Sunday 30th January 18:44
amazing pics! I'm sure they're all hi res but do you reckon you could upload them to something like www.imageshack.us??? They would all make great wallpaper material 
mindgam3 said:
amazing pics! I'm sure they're all hi res but do you reckon you could upload them to something like www.imageshack.us??? They would all make great wallpaper material
Hi Ian, sorry I missed this post earlier - I'm too lazy to do anything like that, but if there is a specific one you want email me via my profile and I'll send you a full size copy.
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