350z + R33 Gtr Night Shoot Session

[geno8r]

Collaboration: geno8r & d-d (also known as 'dskyz')

http://geno8r.deviantart.com/gallery/

http://dskyz.deviantart.com/gallery/

Went out for my first night shoot session last night with d-d & his 350D SLR, was a good night to learn a bit about night photography & have noticed some areas where we can improve.

Location & tripod placement by: geno8r & d-d

Photos snapped & 350D settings by: d-d

Photoshop tweaked by: geno8r

Look forward to the next session & pumping out some better shots.

Enjoy

Edited February 16, 2007 by geno8r

[Sl!m]

http://ic3.deviantart.com/fs14/f/2007/045/...b_by_geno8r.jpg

thats cool.. real lightning? you have the camera on timer for that one?

looks like its choped though

[geno8r]

http://ic3.deviantart.com/fs14/f/2007/045/...b_by_geno8r.jpg

thats cool.. real lightning? you have the camera on timer for that one?

looks like its choped though

Yeah added in photoshop, I don't care if photos are real or not, as long as they look good!

[d-d]

They look excellent!

The lightning one is outstanding, looks like the real thing.

The 3rd last photo of my car came up brilliantly in PS when i played around with it, that one seems fairly yellow!!

Till the next hawt photo session!

Ciao~~

[Sass]

great pics

[ULOOOK]

They are some really good shots. That last one is awesome! I love it!

[geno8r]

They look excellent!

The lightning one is outstanding, looks like the real thing.

The 3rd last photo of my car came up brilliantly in PS when i played around with it, that one seems fairly yellow!!

Till the next hawt photo session!

Ciao~~

Yeah I delib gave that photo green lighting, why... because it looks good! I've had the most comments on it so far on DeviantArt

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/48756534/

I've also got 2 other versions of it here @ home dave, 1. The original lighting tweaked, 2. ^ the green version, 3. A blue’ish version.

Might post up a few more variations later.

[ferni]

I'm not a photographer so don't take my word to seriously, but it looks like you went over the top with some of the flares on the lights in photoshop..... takes away from the car....

[geno8r]

I'm not a photographer so don't take my word to seriously, but it looks like you went over the top with some of the flares on the lights in photoshop..... takes away from the car....

I'm not sure 100% sure what you mean, but if you’re saying I modified the light flares in Photoshop they’re actually un-modified, that’s how the photos came out from the camera / camera settings. On DeviantArt another guy said the same thing thinking that I actually added or enhanced the light flares, all I’ve done is tweaked the levels, hue, colours etc.

My main criticism of the photos is that we didn't get the right angle / amount of light on the cars sometimes (mainly mine due to it being black). But overall they still look pretty good due the location.

Although we were taking shots of the cars, the car isn’t the only focus, it was a good location with nice backgrounds due to the lighting so it was deliberate to include the background (with the cool lighting) in the right perspective into the shot

Next time will try to get better focus / lighting on the car, & depending on the background lighting, maybe reduce the aperture if there's too much light flaring going on.

[geno8r]

The 3rd last photo of my car came up brilliantly in PS when i played around with it, that one seems fairly yellow!!

Post it up & any other shots you tweaked in PS.

[d-d]

Only have teh_gh3y 56k at home currently lol - so it would take forever

[K N P]

pics are great from 2 onwards

but yeah, agreed on black cars being hard to take pics of at night

first one seems like u used a high ISO, or adjusted the levels TOO much for it to come out noisy like that

[evade]

agree use lowest iso next time! less noise..otherwise some great shots

[geno8r]

first one seems like u used a high ISO, or adjusted the levels TOO much for it to come out noisy like that

The first shot I recently re-posted it with added sharpness. I like the grainy sepia look in that photo, if you look down to the other version (2nd last image) you’ll see its not as sharp & looks a little blurry in my opinion (yes due to too high ISO I think). A similar grainy image I think looks good is http://ic3.deviantart.com/fs14/f/2007/022/...2_by_geno8r.jpg

agree use lowest iso next time! less noise..otherwise some great shots

Yep! Agreed. I believe we were using ISO 800, we wanted nice colourful photos due to the nice lighting / location but it seems it was too high giving us too much nose, def will try 400, 200 next time.

[K N P]

200 is sufficient for a nice crisp image

[geno8r]

Wow, it's amazing what filters can do!

http://www.deviantart.com/print/300131/

http://robertmekis.deviantart.com/store/

Edited February 17, 2007 by geno8r

[bilbo117]

Hey,

Lookn good. First pic of the 300 by itself is my favourite.

Last pic with the lightning is aight but the reflection off the side of the car puts it out of place.

I think alot of those photos with the cars by themselves would look better if the wheels weren't turned.

Nice work!

[dan_the_man]

wow... the lightning one was awesome

[Mitchtj]

Wow, some killer shots there. This is proberbly the nicest 350z / GTR shoot iv seen. Good work.

[geno8r]

thanks for the comments