370Z/GTR/Civic Si
 

After a long day of driving to Alhambra for the Night-Import x JIC USA presents Meet & Garage Sale and a trip afterwards to Diddy Ries for the best cookies you can get anywhere, (6 for $2.50!?!?), I decided to have a small night shoot with my friends to gain some more experience and practice with different places and times.

Hope you guys enjoy them :tiphat:

not a fan of your post processing. also, be careful of parking space lines and reflections. in almost every shot i can see you (the shooter) plus other people standing near you. whenever i'm shooting i always ask people to stand way back directly behind me to avoid them showing up :)

You mean you're not a fan of how I've been posting threads about the pictures I've been taking these past few days? And thanks for bringing my attention to that, I'll definitely work on not getting those in the shots next time :tiphat:

no i'm not a fan of how the photo's are processed before posting. all the colorization, weird hues and halo effects around the cars. everyone has their own style tho, so carry on :tup:

by Post Processing he's referring to the editing style you use, not your postings :p

I agree with everything HKYStormFront mentioned.

I notice a lot of either "HDR Toning" or "Shadow/Highlight" being used in these shots. i use these tools quite a bit in my photos, but only in moderation. Too much and you start to get this halo effect around high contrast areas. I personally don't like to see that, because it screams photoshop to me.

Your compositions are good and creative, its the little details and your own style that will come as you practice more. but so far :tup:

between this post and your link earlier, i would say to practice with your exposures, the daytime shots seamed a bit too overexposed, and these a bit to underexposed (a tripod might have helped you take a longer exposure). Try shooting in your camera's RAW format (not sure what your shooting with, so hopefully it has a raw format). you'll have a lot more room for to fix your exposure later in your editing that way.

OHHH hahaha I'm sorry I misunderstood. I don't do the editing on my photos, my friend does because up until today I didnt have Photoshop and am just starting to learn how to use it. I'll try and make it more simple to see what they look like without all the extra stuff. Thanks for the advice though, much appreciated! :tup:

Adam: I have a Canon Rebel T1i and am just starting to get familiar with it. I'll work on the exposures later this week when I take some more pictures and will try and edit the pictures with a more natural look rather than fake/photoshop. Thanks again for the advice guys!:tup::tiphat:

Thanks for the posted images! I have added a few to my backdrops folder. I happen to like when the effects make the pictures take on an abstract art feeling. :tiphat:

Gtr !!!!!!!

These are nice shots, but man the noise is really distracting. For low light shots like these, a tripod is a must have. If I had to guess, the ISO setting is well over 1200 by the look of your images. If you want to improve these types of shots easily, all you'll need is some fairly simple equipment and technique's.

-buy a tripod. Any tripod that's solid & steady will work fine.
-buy a remote trigger. (you can also use the self- timer to trigger the shutter)
-set the camera to manual mode
-set the aperture to f/11 or smaller and leave it there. (leaves a lot of the scene in focus)
-set the ISO to 100 or lower if possible and leave it there. (no noise)
-adjust the shutter speed for the shot and correct exposure. I usually start off with 1 second and push it up in half second increments until I get the shot.

That's it. If you do it right, you won't need post processing gimicks.