DSLR/SLR Post Your Photos & Discussion Thread

[—Bryan—]

For the fish eye shots or the other ones? Dont have much experience shooting cars, just tried to mimic other car shots seen online :X.

All of them. They're pretty boring shots, if I'm honest. Not much color or pop (you have to be aware of your lighting conditions) and the angle you took them at isn't very compelling. The biggest sin most people commit in taking pictures of cars is to simply whip the camera up to their face and snap. There's no thought for looking for an angle that makes the car look like anything more than a slide in someone's vacation reel. Generally, if the car is sitting in front of you and you take the shot from eye level, seldom will you get a good shot.

Trust me...I've taken PLENTY of bad pictures (and been given similar advice), so I'm not just trying to make you feel bad.

At the very least, you might want to take a shot at some post processing to warm them up and fix the composition. I'll take a couple minutes and see what I can come up with.

[—Bryan—]

Here's a slight edit. If you use GIMP, I can attach the xcf, so you can see what I did.



It's not the prettiest, and I'm pretty sure it's a bit too red once I added a layer, but you get the idea.

EDIT: Here's another...



Check here for what all I included.

[Left0verCurry]

Cool, I'll keep at it. I didn't do any post editing, so i guess ill start there.

[—Bryan—]

Cool, I'll keep at it.

Please do!

For the shot in particular that I edited, you need to be aware of the background. In particular, there was WAY too much going on in it, and the blue car (your subject) got lost. I had to dampen the reds so that the red car at left didn't dominate the path your eye takes through the picture. Also, you included too much of the environment around it (you were standing too far away), which again causes the subject to get lost.

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set_up by shintarodesign, on Flickr

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naruto_setup by shintarodesign, on Flickr

[theothersawyer]

I like the pictures of the set up for the shot, as well as the shot! Very cool!

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IMG_7723_2 by shintarodesign, on Flickr

[—Bryan—]

Very cool!

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IMG_7740_2 by shintarodesign, on Flickr

[theothersawyer]

These are so cool! Keep 'em coming!

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IMG_7842_2 by shintarodesign, on Flickr


IMG_7751_2 by shintarodesign, on Flickr

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IMG_7919_3 by shintarodesign, on Flickr



IMG_7869_3 by shintarodesign, on Flickr



IMG_8029_3 by shintarodesign, on Flickr

[—Bryan—]

I like the color balance in the first two. Third one looks kinda cold.

[Andy]

Just bought a new camera today.

in celebration i am posting up my favorite photo I have taken. This photo was taken while scuba diving at around 40 feet or so. I laid the camera down and took a photo from the perspective of the bottom of the ocean. In my opinion the end result reminds me of what the desert would look like if it were underground.

PICT0058.2 by xbeatles4x, on Flickr