Some pictures of my car; Lotus Exige S

[TonyHetherington]

So, I finally got around to actually stopping and taking some pictures of the car. How difficult is that? Every time I take it out I just want to accelerate Anyway, more on that another time - I'm loving the car itself.

Not overly chuffed with number 1, but 4 and 5 I'm well happy with

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Anyway, first go of many more to come with the new car I'm sure
Tony

[Frik]

git.








Good pics for a git, mind

[StuW]

They did come out quite well actually, though somehow your shots don't portay all aspects of the scene - ie the freezing my bits off on top a multi storey car park aspect!

[TonyHetherington]

Cheers Rich

Went with my good buddy Stu too in his car, so got a couple of shots of his too; dam that's a clean car!

[TonyHetherington]

StuW said:

They did come out quite well actually, though somehow your shots don't portay all aspects of the scene - ie the freezing my bits off on top a multi storey car park aspect!

Cheers Mr Car Moverer

(left a bit, right a bit, that's it, no back a bit....)

[ptp170]

Nice

Your white balance is a little off on a couple though Guess you shot in JPG and not RAW ??

Chris

[andy_s]

Is it only me that can't see the pics...?

ETA:- (Yes, it is, IT nazis have put something on the system to block file hosted pictures, a sad day...)

Edited by andy_s on Tuesday 27th November 09:18

[kambites]

Does the Exige-S have no front access panel covers then? If not, why not? The radiator looks rather exposed like that.

Edited by kambites on Tuesday 27th November 08:52

[Kev946]

Nice one Tony.

When you get your soft top on can you post a picture?

Cheers

[RobM77]

Great pics Tony. This one is my favourite:



great angle

[TonyHetherington]

ptp170 said:

Guess you shot in JPG and not RAW ??

Shot in RAW then using Bridge used tungsten or fluorescent white balance (depending on which shot as they were in different places) to correct it a little bit. Still doesn't look 100% right but, must be honest, I'm still really learning white balance through RAW and how to perfect it; customising it is still a black art. Annoyingly, I've just bought a white car

[Boggy]

Love it Tony, Love it!

Boggy

[TonyHetherington]

kambites said:

Does the Exige-S have no front access panel covers then? If not, why not? The radiator looks rather exposed like that.

It does, it's just at that angle you're looking right through them so they appear non-existent. It has black wire mesh - I've not tried taking it off yet though, but will do when I have a good clean.

[TonyHetherington]

Kev946 said:

When you get your soft top on can you post a picture?

Will do!


(edit; PS cheers chaps! I'm learning more about car photography the more I do it - all good fun )

Edited by TonyHetherington on Tuesday 27th November 09:30

[ptp170]

TonyHetherington said:

ptp170 said:

Guess you shot in JPG and not RAW ??

Shot in RAW then using Bridge used tungsten or fluorescent white balance (depending on which shot as they were in different places) to correct it a little bit. Still doesn't look 100% right but, must be honest, I'm still really learning white balance through RAW and how to perfect it; customising it is still a black art. Annoyingly, I've just bought a white car

Ditch Bridge!! Get hold of a copy of RawShooter Premium 2006 (developed by Andy Rouse) and watch it transform your photography!! I notice you're a Canon man which makes you okay in my book(unlike those Nikon people) lol

Chris

[TonyHetherington]

Phew! Yup, I'm a canon man!

How do you use RawShooter then? Because, I must admit, I like the work flow of bridge; using it to sort through the pictures, sorting them etc and selecting which to process - does RawShooter have similar workflow or do you just use it to process RAW images and stick with bridge to select etc?

[ptp170]

TonyHetherington said:

Phew! Yup, I'm a canon man!

How do you use RawShooter then? Because, I must admit, I like the work flow of bridge; using it to sort through the pictures, sorting them etc and selecting which to process - does RawShooter have similar workflow or do you just use it to process RAW images and stick with bridge to select etc?

Rawshooter has an excellent workflow method...you can tell that it was designed by a photographer and not a computer boffin somewhere. To get the best out of it you'll need to quickly read through the 'Help' file and learn the keyboard shortcuts. I've been using RawShooter for a couple of years now and am still discovering things! Rawshooter allows you to tag photographs and it automatically groups them so you can ignore the crap shots as they're no longer on the screen. Adobe bought the rights to Rawshooter in 2006 and I was looking foward to it's integration into Photoshop CS3, but it never happened. If you want to see the results, have a quick look on my website on my profile(shameless plug!). If you are keen to tryout Rawshooter u2u me.

Chris

[TonyHetherington]

I certainly will give it a go I think!

I'll send you a mail - thanks

[LivinLaVidaLotus]

Grab a copy of Adobe Photoshop for Photographers by Martin Evening - fantastic book, don't have to know much about PS at all to start getting better results.

Loving Picture #1 Tony, look fantastic, congrats. Know what you mean about stopping and taking pictures, I went out a couple of weeks ago with the aim of taking some pictures of the car in nice surroundings, I think I took one picture really quickly then got back in and carried on driving.

[L100NYY]

Great shots Tony, the car looks abso-ruddy-loutely great.