My Esprit

[zhastaph]

I took the best part of 100 shots of her the other evening, here's what's left after deleting 97 of the worst ones :rolleyes:

[pic]http://www.zhastaph.com/pics/DSC_3684_low.jpg[/pic]

[pic]http://www.zhastaph.com/pics/DSC_3721_low.jpg[/pic]

[pic]http://www.zhastaph.com/pics/DSC_3768_low.jpg[/pic]

All comments very welcome {especially the bad ones}

:)

[alloypearltam]

A very beutiful car. When I was younger I always wanted an Esprit, such a shame they stopped producing them.

[_dobbo_]

Lovely car!

Like the first one a lot, I assume it's a composite of two images exposed for the car and sky?

[zhastaph]

alloypearltam said:

A very beutiful car. When I was younger I always wanted an Esprit, such a shame they stopped producing them.

Snap!!!

I really want something faster {am thinking Noble} but I am soooooo loathed to part with her

[_dobbo_]

Just looking again - reckon if you parked the car sideways in front of the trees in the last picture and took a shot with just the trees and car in, the yellow of the car would really stand out against the green background, could be a corker.

[zhastaph]

_dobbo_ said:

Lovely car! Like the first one a lot, I assume it's a composite of two images exposed for the car and sky?

Believe it or not no!!!

I was originally going down that route, had 2 images, one with an overexposed sky and another with an underexposed car. Began putting them together in Photoshop - which came out well, except there were 2 points that needed a bit of work to match the colour properly - the tree in particular.

Then I found that little beauty towards the end of the pics I'd taken - the sky was only slightly better in the composite, so I ditched it

_dobbo said:

Just looking again - reckon if you parked the car sideways in front of the trees in the last picture and took a shot with just the trees and car in, the yellow of the car would really stand out against the green background, could be a corker.

I though the same {not whilst taking the pics though } the builing's right oposite where I work, so may have another go next week.

Thankyou

[chris.mapey]

Great pictures.

Love the second one.

The spot colour looks great & top marks for attention to detail on the reflection as well!

Chris

[GetCarter]

chris.mapey said:

Great pictures. Love the second one. The spot colour looks great & top marks for attention to detail on the reflection as well! Chris

Agreed - that's what makes it for me.

With the top one the only thing that would make it better (IMHO) is haviing a more car orientated background (pit lane etc) - I guess there ain't a lot you can do about that now!

Plus, it's a personal thing but I'd lose the three 'flares' on the tarmac as I feel they detract from the 'point of interest' flare off the sun/bonnet

Steve

>> Edited by GetCarter on Sunday 18th September 13:04

[te51cle]

I think I can see the idea you wer trying in no. 3 but it would probably have been better if you'd parked it close to the building on the paving rather than to the side of it - looks like it might have been possible but maybe there's a hidden step ?

There's some distracting bright areas in the background and in the window on the left so a different crop and a bit of selective adjustment might help, e.g.

[ErnestM]

In keeping with the same car theme, I had a bit of a hoon yesterday in the Esprit and took these. Any help in dealing with bright sunlight (the bane of picture taking in Central Florida) greatly received. I did have a polarising filter on the EFS 17-85 lens. Next stop will be an ND filter - on order).

I tried to fiddle a bit in PhotoShop, but not exceedingly happy with the pictures. (The drive was fun, though!)







ErnestM