August Photo Thread

[siddr20]

Invest in a Dell IPS monitor and calibration software like Spyder 3 or Eye-One or Color Munki. All good devices and give you accurate colour day in day out.

I use a Dell IPS monitor as well as a second screen for browsing the web and spyder 3 software on both. Well worth it!

Same here. +1

No point spending $$$$$$$$ on camera gear, when you dont have an accurate monitor to PP your work.

[siddr20]

bnr - WOW nicely done Got any more??

Sam - Where you been hiding? Love the first shot. Can i see a bigger version please.

ta

[siddr20]

Using natural night:

Using constant light:

[Sl!m]

Sam - Where you been hiding? Love the first shot. Can i see a bigger version please.

ta

Been enjoying life in London Bigger version on my sites http://www.sam-parsons.net

[MaTBoY]

Looky Looky! They look topazy, what tool were you using on those hdr's?

Nice location sidd! where were they taken?

I did a shoot of my mates pimp mobile the other day.

[Sl!m]

lots of different stuff mate - mainly photomatix though

[Sl!m]

oops forgot one..

[bnr#@]

bnr - WOW nicely done Got any more??

ta

No more for now, always interesting to go back to old photos and see what you can do with them now so will see if I can find anything else to play with.

Off to Singapore in 4 weeks to so should have some good stuff from there also

[MaTBoY]

A couple more of the fairlane pimp mobile.

the car isn't soft in the full size pic. it looks soft here though... or is it just me and my shite monitor?

[FST513]

Nice photos Matt.

The photos look distorted to me in IE and firefox. Could be my cr@ppy computer at work.

How are you resizing them and where are you hosting them?

This could be the reason why they are so soft.

[siddr20]

That is pimp!!! I like the first two shots you posted. Not feeling the 3rd one tho.. a little too much going on i think. But i mean thats just me. Otherwise its great

[ZENNON]

Yeah 3rd is a bit busy - 2nd one is my fav

[MaTBoY]

They've just been uploaded to picasa, and stored there, no editing of sizes or anything happened. Are you drunk again? ;_)

I'll agree, the third is a bit cluttered up and to much stuff everywhere. cheers boys.

took these at lunch yesterday. they're not crazy angles or anything special. They're kind of important though, first time i knew exactly what I wanted to do, how to light and set the car out, how to shoot. Precission ;p Took about 10 minutes to set up and shoot, then about 5 minutes in photoshop to increase contrast and add a sharpen after resizing. I think it's time to get serious about shooting people's cars now.

[FST513]

Nice pics matt. I wish i was drunk.

You have your own site why don't you host them yourselfs? Picasa could be compressing them, never know.

On a side note, if anyone here owns a Canon 40D or 50D, view my thread HERE if you want some awesome batteries!

[Sl!m]

Nice one mattyboy

random shot of the housemates here in london

[MaTBoY]

You've become the HDR Monster! I think you're addicted man! Trying to chase that dragon!

Here's the real shot from the other day at lunch, perhaps even the.... money... shot....

[bnr#@]

HDR seems to be the in thing right now.. heres some of mine from the quit targa west start last friday in the city

This one is from Kulumunda service park

Zig Zag Stage:

And the outright winner, Peter Major in his awesome R35 GTR

Have a heap of photos to go through from Sat and Sun and they will slowly be added to the Targa West 2010 gallery here:

http://nextgenphotography.zenfolio.com/p889762662

Cheers

Edited August 30, 2010 by bnr#@

[MaTBoY]

That 2nd last shot of the black evo is awesome I really like it.

The escort pic is good too!

[Sl!m]

awesome shots man

I've always loved the HDR Matty - can't get enough of em

[FST513]

I must say i'm not a fan of HDR photos of cars. They just bring out way too much detail and ruins it for me, but that's just my personal opinion. If it's done nicely and not over-done it's ok, but most just pull too much detail out of the reflections in the paint. But i like the composition

One from me -