Originally Posted by axmea? (Post 2208406)

Thanks Robert. I'll give my son's gf a shot. She's got a good eye and a great camera but not a pro at a decent level yet. I'll spend my money on her. I'm a cheap bastard.

Off topic, you back home or still in Iraq? If you're out there, be safe bro. I remember you giving advice on flushing the wheels. The car's gone a long way since then. Later.

Originally Posted by KaienZ34 (Post 2208455)

Those pics make the 13 look very very good.

Originally Posted by nmjaxx9 (Post 2209974)

A lil pic from the other day. :tup:

Originally Posted by blackcherry20 (Post 2209989)

Originally Posted by chrischhorn (Post 2208407)

Cone dodging in the rain :tiphat:

http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x...ps3c9a2bec.jpg

Originally Posted by nmjaxx9 (Post 2209974)

A lil pic from the other day. :tup:

Originally Posted by blackcherry20 (Post 2210019)

:tup: very cool photo :happydance:

Originally Posted by blackcherry20 (Post 2210019)

:tup: very cool photo :happydance:

Originally Posted by forza370z (Post 2210243)

I see you blacked out the emblem. Nice.:tup:

Originally Posted by Robert_K (Post 2208410)

Whoa! This got freaky real quick! :tup: J/K

I'm back in Iraq. Bay due first week of May so I'll be home on the 2nd. Have a good lead on a job at home so might not be going back. We'll see.

And yes... Car is looking good! :driving:

Originally Posted by KaienZ34 (Post 2212799)

^ Great shot.

Originally Posted by rts_kaneda (Post 2198236)

To be honest I do not know that much about photography either, all I've picked up about night photography is that if you make your aperture as low a number as possible (I normally have it between F3.5-F5), and then have a play around with different settings of manual exposure (whilst using a tripod) you will get quite crisp colours and edges so very little work will need to be done on Lightroom (what I use).

I'm not skilled enough yet unfortunately to find a location and instantly know what level of manual exposure is needed. But in the past without changing the aperture I would need to take 5-10 second photos and there would be a lot of grain. Since altering that setting first, the pictures are between 1/3 - 3 seconds to take (battery life goes a hell of a lot further too now) with little to no grain.

Hopefully this info can help you guys out too.

Originally Posted by djtodd (Post 2198281)

As the others said, night photography for slow/stationary targets is best accomplished:
1) With a low iso (100/200) and longer exposures.
2) On a (good) tripod
3) With a remote release (Nikons have a fantastic super cheap remote that is all you'll ever need) It's the ML-L3 if you want to look it up, but you can get them anywhere online. I'm sure Canon has something similar.
4) If your frame has a delayed shutter release option, or mirror lock, use it. This raises the mirror then waits a short time before releasing the shutter, which lowers the chance of vibration/blur since you will be using a longer exposure.

One neat trick for night shots is to use a really strong filter on a remote flash to highlight a subject. Then adjust the color balance (easiest in post, but can be done in-camera), which puts your subject in correct WB and everything else gets shifted to an array of odd colors.

Originally Posted by LunaZ (Post 2198297)

Don't forget you can use a reasonably higher ISO combined with a wide aperture to achieve a faster shutter speed.
Longer shutters will give you more noise.
Lr's noise reduction is pretty good at cleaning up your images.
One other thing to thing to think about is metering on the right spot.

Originally Posted by djtodd (Post 2199582)

Yeah I normally only use it when I'm using a bigger, heavy lens. But it is handy!

Oh. one other thing. If you're using a tripod/remote with a VR or IS lens, turn vr/is OFF. No point and it actually can actually lower clarity as the vr/is motors move about.

Originally Posted by Punk86 (Post 2212794)

Originally Posted by Ire (Post 2230461)

My car along with forum members from Toronto:
Can't wait to get even better shots this year! We have more meets/cruises planned and last year almost everyone was stock
most of the shots were taken an iphone and a bit of luck

http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m...87454266_o.jpg

http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m...s/IMG_3548.jpg

Originally Posted by Ire (Post 2230461)

Originally Posted by martin82 (Post 2232484)

Thanks to Motolyric:

http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphoto...55953396_o.jpg