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Re: The Photography Thread, back again by popular demand!
« Reply #1700 on: 12 January 2012, 15:09 »
did a shoot today for my mate and it was paid so always nice! hopefully get some further work of his mates as well, photos are so he can sell the car  :smiley:


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Re: The Photography Thread, back again by popular demand!
« Reply #1701 on: 12 January 2012, 18:58 »
Joe did you use a polariser on the lens?

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Re: The Photography Thread, back again by popular demand!
« Reply #1702 on: 12 January 2012, 19:00 »
Linking great as ever stink!  :smiley:


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« Reply #1703 on: 13 January 2012, 08:07 »
yeah had a pz filter on the 50mm, still need to go back and tweek a few little bits had some feed back on a few other forums and noticed the rear quarter is darker so just need to have a play

final image was made up of about 10 different shoots,  :smiley:

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« Reply #1704 on: 13 January 2012, 18:37 »
Love the photo Stink what did you change between the different shots? Where the flash was? Exposure?

I haven't got an experiance of overlaying photos. Just wondered whats the easiest way of doing it using cs5?

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« Reply #1705 on: 14 January 2012, 09:13 »
im just in the process of putting together a little photo shwing all the shots i used so you can see what i used and how i got the end result kind of thing

the process i use is take a normal exposure of the car, then when i was using my strobe light took between 8-12 photos with the light in differnet positions to light the car camera was set at f8 1/160 this is kind of a bit of trial and error so you get the right amount of light just from the strobe and then took a slightly underexposed shot for the sky, you could use some grad filters for this as that would also help really bring out the detail in teh sky and means alot less playing in ps to tweak the sky

in photo shot its just a case of lining up the photos (i need to get a shutter release for my 50d as everytime i press the shutter the camera has some very slight movement ) i have found that using the 'lighten' mode for the layers with the light on work well and just shows the lightpainted areas of the car

then its just playing with levels / saturation/ curves / brightness +contrast / sharpening, i tend to play with the shadow/highlight adjustment for the clouds and bg

hope this give a bit of an insight to what i do normally takes about a hour or so to edit one phot like this  :smiley:


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Re: The Photography Thread, back again by popular demand!
« Reply #1706 on: 14 January 2012, 15:13 »
Thats great thanks I'll have a go at some point soon. Couldnt do anything like that on my old laptop because it would just die on me. New Laptop New cs5 and lightroom so lets have a go :smiley:

Definitely all pays off when you end up with a stunning photo like that

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Re: The Photography Thread, back again by popular demand!
« Reply #1707 on: 14 January 2012, 15:24 »
cheers dude well when i get a free moment ill post that pic up so you can see :)

here is a thread i made for a photo of an A3 I shot

http://www.golfgtiforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=171065.0
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Re: The Photography Thread, back again by popular demand!
« Reply #1708 on: 15 January 2012, 22:54 »
Visited Kimmeridge Bay in Dorset today to catch the sunset. Although the I'm not happy with the sunset shots, you can see these instead... They were shot with my old Canon D60 & 50mm prime lens:











I don't think a semi will give the same results

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Re: The Photography Thread, back again by popular demand!
« Reply #1709 on: 16 January 2012, 06:54 »
Last one is my favourite there.

Get yourself on Flickr chris!