:icon18: No idea -- that 244 in the picture is very fast and handles amazingly well, though.

Does it have a leuvered back window??

Great footage and clean passes!:happydance:

oh, it sure does!!!

Allright.. back on topic! :icon17:

A shot I did yesterday in my driveway...

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7180/6...7e84e512_b.jpg

^:tup:

Actually I hate it. I'm doing a proper photoshoot with her today. I can't stand the blur on that shot. I was actually just experimenting with HDR which I think came out pretty nice. But location and crazy blur kill it

From my photoshoot today...

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7067/6...f874760d_b.jpg

^^^ Very nice.

Much better!

my car. roommate's photo. some of you may have already seen this. I can't get enough. It was maybe a 1 second exposure, probably f/8. 5D MkII.

http://www.the370z.com/members/eazyd...my-z-night.png

Thanks :tiphat:


Agreed! :tup:

And it's actually 3 exposures that are HDR merged in PS and the image was worked on for like 3 frickin hours. :icon14: But this is my idea of HDR ;)

The amount of HDR in the first pic is nice, but I wasn't a fan of the extreme depth-of-field after the fact.
I like the second one though!

Alien Bees with octoboxes on order for anyone who's wondering.

Congrats on the bees!

Thanks! Decided to suck it up and invest a little more and a little more wisely.

Easy D, that shot is sick!

That photo looks like something from an Evil Dead movie...

I've been making these collages in Pixelmator, they're pretty fun to make.
Do you guys like them? give me some input

The Z
http://images.us.viewbook.com/393e6f...5b01_large.jpg


The Camaro (nothing against ford lol, we've owned one. The plate is just for laughs.
http://images.us.viewbook.com/d6c3b0...06b2_large.jpg


The 3000
http://images.us.viewbook.com/d28fd8...a220_large.jpg

Probably between 10 and 20 layers for each one. I made the background layer by filling the background with either Black or Grey, then applied a noise filter, then a motion blur filter to make it look like lines instead of dots, then duplicated the line layer and rotated one 90 degrees and placed it behind the original, changed the blending mode to multiply, then added a colored gradient on top with the appropriate color to somewhat go with each vehicle and changed their blending modes to overlay. some of the colors looked too dark so I added a seperate layer on top of them and filled it with white, and changed the blending mode to overlay to brighten the color.

Then I imported each photo into Pixelmator's layer's bracket, resized and rotated/positioned them where I wanted, deciding which to place on top of the other as I went and at what angle. Once that was finished, I went and added a border to each layer using an edge fill, then when done I duplicated the final picture and filled the background layer with black and moved it a few pixels down and either to the left or right for a shadow. but it had hard edges so I used a Gaussian blur filter on that layer to make it look more like a true shadow.

Once finished adding borders and shadows to all the layers, I merged them all together and saved the Photo.

No thats not my House that the Z is parked in front of, and the Camaro is only lowered in the top right, bottom right, and group camaro photo. It looked like a lifted pick up after putting those Vossen's on, as you can see by the one where it is parked under the tree, MAJOR GAP!!!

I like that interior shot of the 3000 Dallaz:tup:

Those are very good shots, Mr. Dallaz.

Yep, I like the collages. Would make for a nice car show display for mods and what not.

:iagree:

Thanks guys. @alchemy - yeah I should have used an interior photo for each vehicle but wasn't really thinking about it. And on the camaro one I forgot to include a completely stock photo. It had the stock grey stripes on the hood and trunk lid only and a front plate.

Here you go

I agree :tup:

My contribution....

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...v7/bridge1.jpg

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...0v7/ellis2.jpg

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...0v7/semi14.jpg

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...0v7/semi15.jpg

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...v7/bridge9.jpg

Nice 5.0 and photos! I think the second one is my favorite

Some new shots taken tuesday night around 10:30pm


http://images.us.viewbook.com/5ca914...c548_large.jpg


http://images.us.viewbook.com/cae8f0...8da7_large.jpg


http://images.us.viewbook.com/53d405...a346_large.jpg


http://images.us.viewbook.com/a27811...daf8_large.jpg

These shots are a little older,

Otis!!!!
http://images.us.viewbook.com/9eb0de...032e_large.jpg


Juno!!!
http://images.us.viewbook.com/529376...79f9_large.jpg


Thunderstorm... Obviously. A vehicle passed during the long exposure which lit up the field/road a little and left the light trail
http://images.us.viewbook.com/9cb54d...c999_large.jpg

Same storm, No tilt
http://images.us.viewbook.com/143339...267a_large.jpg


Cardinal spotted on the nature trail
http://images.us.viewbook.com/754164...4501_large.jpg


Shot in the main streets of downtown, Denver CO. They have pianos set up along the streets and this was a shot I took of a random guy playing.
http://images.us.viewbook.com/a7ede5...214f_large.jpg

Nice work, Mr. Dallaz.

That thunderstorm shot with the streaking taillights is something you should do your HDR stuff on!
What kind of lens did you use for the shot of the Camaro by itself? There's a bit of a curve/distortion that makes it even more interesting. The sky is awesome!
Like the low-angle shot of the 350 a lot! If I was going to be nit-picky, I would soften or remove the spot reflection on the front bumper - I find it really distracting... my eye goes right to it! And remove the lightpole coming out of the roof of the 350 taillight shot, too.
More Otis!

Thanks. HDR's never turn out good for me if there's not much light to begin with cause your trying to merge a wide spectrum of light into one shot and at night its just all dark instead contrasty like a bright sky and then dark shadow areas.

The lens for those 4 car shots I used the Nikon 16-35mm f/4 VR I think it was a 30 second exposure and I walked around the car using my speed light a few times but shooting a black car at night even with flash is a little tricky...... At least for me.

It was totally dark out, between 10:30-11pm when I took these. I shot in RAW, added some warmth, and was able to really pull out a lot of color in the sky, when in the original picture it only showed hints of blue but was mainly a grey sky.

Yeah on that 350 shot I already removed a lot of reflections on the door and new those on the front panel and bumper would just be taking more time to remove so I decided to move on to the others and forgot to try and get those out of there afterwards.

Yeah I might do a different edit of that 350z rear shot. We'll see.

That's one of the few good shots of Otis that I've taken with my DSLR. Mainly iPhone photos.

Appreciate the feedback

Unlike others, I don't dig the sky on Camaro... it looks polluted with ugly yellow city lights... because it is. The Camaro itself looks very nice, though.
The red "angry bird" picture is pretty cool... very nice contrast.
I like the piano pic too... you couldn't get this aperture better!
The two pictures with thunders are probably one of the best pics I've ever seen (which doesn't say much, but still...)

Haha thanks.

Yeah I admit I went overboard on the warmth but just wanted to have a lot of color.

The cardinal picture I took with our 70-300mm I believe and then just added some vignetting

Yeah I was really close to him taking that piano shot. It was taken with our Sigma 30mm wide open at f1.4 on a D90, so technically a 50mm.

Thanks for the compliment. I worked hard on those getting them just right

My 370 looks extra distorted in that first pic

Your Z looks really good in that picture... but it's not because of the camera... its just a very good looking Z. But I see what you're saying - the color of your Z in that picture looks more like Daytona Blue than Monterey Blue.
BTW, do you not have skyscrapers in that city with the 5 level parking deck? Picture would look better with skyscrapers in the background or at least in the skyline.

Thank you. I changed the blues a little to make it pop.

And no skyscrapers here in Plano unfortunately. These are just shops with limited parking space so they built tall garages for extra space, sux!

Found this guy at the park..

http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f2...DSC_0497-1.jpg

98mm f5.6, 1/320, ISO 400

I'm a complete noob to photography and DSLR's.. I found a used Nikon D3100 on ebay last month for a good price. Also bought 2 additional lenses. Really all my knowledge I've gained in the last month or so has come from this thread, Youtube, and a DSLR book for dummies that I bought a couple weeks ago lol. I've learned a lot from you guys but obviously I'm still in the learning phase :tup:

a couple more..

http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f2...x/DSC_0475.jpg

http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f2...x/DSC_0182.jpg