-pics- HDR pics of the 10th

I've been enjoying driving the car around the past few weeks in its "business" socks, so to speak. The true forged rims are off because I wanted to clean the inside of the rim, and more importantly because I'm going to be putting some black center caps on them soon... so I thought I'd take the opportunity to take some pictures of the car with the anniversary wheels on

As far as the HDR pictures go, these were done by taking 3 exposures (-2, metered, +2) and merging them in photomatix and doing a little bit of touching up in photoshop on a couple of pictures. Some of the pictures came out great, some kinda lack luster, but either way it was interesting to play around and try to learn some new photography skills.

I can post the non HDR shots too if you guys would like, but I don't have them uploaded at this time. Let me know what numbers & I'll get around to it sooner or later.


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Comments, criticism and advice are all welcome :beer:

HOLY ****. Those are some absolutely gorgeous pics! My god, I love them! I'm almost speechless here. Man those head-on shots, especially the first one, are surreal. Great stuff!!!!

Thank god you didn't go too overboard and make the HDR pics look like coloring pencil. It's still a tad much for me, personally, but the car looks good!

What camera/lens setup did you use for these?

the first one is my favorite.


you said you were using photomatix to merge the photos and editing them in photoshop. You can merge the photos in photoshop too. There is a merge to HDR program

Great pics, new desktop!

Very nice pics!

Same here - they are all pretty cool but the first one takes the cake. Nice.

Would you mind sending me a high-res version of the first one? jeffat93coupedotcom

Thanks

silverstang23 said:

the first one is my favorite.


you said you were using photomatix to merge the photos and editing them in photoshop. You can merge the photos in photoshop too. There is a merge to HDR program

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Me too, thats why its 1st

Photomatix HDR's have a lot more pop than what I've been able to make in CS3's feature. CS3 seems to come out as a relatively bland picture, where as the photomatix versions come out darker, more saturated, and much more vivid - all of which can be changed depending on how dramatic you want it to look, which I prefer. With CS3 I use local adaptation and don't play with the curves too much, dunno if that is where I went wrong or not, but I've found photomatix to give me better results and more tweaking within the tone mapping feature. Like I said, I may very well be using the cs3 program wrong. If I am, let me know where I'm going wrong!! :beer:

Very Nice, sometime I'm gonna have to learn how to do that.

V_Eight said:

Thank god you didn't go too overboard and make the HDR pics look like coloring pencil. It's still a tad much for me, personally, but the car looks good!

What camera/lens setup did you use for these?

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yeah, some are still way over the top compared to the originals, but my mistake was in the actual photographing itself. I managed to focus a couple of them on a very highlighted part of the car or something that made everything come out much darker than I had though, and I didn't notice til today

Camera was a canon digital rebel xt with a tamron 28-300 lens. I love the lens for its versatility, but I had to let a couple of shots go because of some lens flare. Oh well, you live and you learn. Still love the lens, despite a few of its short comings.

Jfoster said:

Same here - they are all pretty cool but the first one takes the cake. Nice.

Would you mind sending me a high-res version of the first one? jeffat93coupedotcom

Thanks

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What size resolution do you want?

I'll host it so everybody can get it. I think its a pretty sick picture and I'm sure you won't be the only one that uses it :beer:

VelociTT said:

What size resolution do you want?

I'll host it so everybody can get it. I think its a pretty sick picture and I'm sure you won't be the only one that uses it :beer:

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I'd like the version that's upwards of 2000 pixels wide.

Yea that first picture is money

Looks damn good bud

DAMN, very nice pictures and a very nice car.

sick ass pics!!! the last ones my new background...:bowdown:

WOW!!! those look amazing, #1 is my favorite

thats sick man!

background sizes

Since it sounds like you guys like these shots, I'm going to host the following sizes of that first picture for you guys
-3465x2304(full size)
-1920x1280
-1680x1120
-1280x853
-1050x700

If there is another picture you want, let me know & I'll resize and host it for you.


PM me for the high resolution pictures, let me know which size you want :beer:

Just post the links of those sizes here.

Shangsta said:

Looks damn good bud

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Thanks again!! :beer: