Christian... I like it too! However, that dirt is distracting ;)

Christian, great shot. Whenever I see your Z I want to get swifts and spacers!

Great shot but think would crop much tighter.

Yea buddi!!!
 

This is not a perfect edit, simply because it's 1am in the morning and I don't want to fiddle with the small stuff for hours. This was edited in Pixelmator. three layers; the exterior, interior, and the image I put in the nav screen.
COMMENT!

http://images.us.viewbook.com/da5f1e...7eab_large.jpg

^^ If you guys want me to post it larger like the photo of my 3000gt just let me know.

Dalaz,

Beautiful shot. What lens did you use for the interior?

Nice work!!! +1 rep for you, my friend.

appears to be a fish eye, maybe a 14mm?

Thanks for the comment. I used a D90 for the interior with the Nikon 10.5mm f2.8 fisheye. The 2 others were shot with a D700 and Nikon 70-200mm 2.8

Funny because (well not really funny but) I just dropped my D700 the other day with my Tamron 17-35mm f2.8-f4 mounted and the lens broke near the mount. I bought it on eBay for cheap (like a little over $300 I think) and it was a great lens. But any ways that gives me an excuse to get the Nikon 14-24mm f2.8 BEAST lens I've been wanting to get forever now. The camera was left plugged in to the computer after an earlier upload and when I grabbed it to head out the door it tugged from the cable and OUCH! Was about to cry. D700 is fine though I got lucky. I've been shooting for years and never dropped any of my equipment until then, and even luckier still that was my cheapest lens.

Cool. What lighting was there?

Actually it was just the really crappy ambient light from the parking garage lighting. I was able to bring a lot of shadow detail out and tone down some highlights outside the car by shooting in RAW then post processing in Aperture 3. You can see the interior shot by itself with more detail on my members 370z gallery page: Dallaz 370

Dallaz, very nice.

I had my D70s fall out of my camera back pack once. Destroyed the tele zoom lens i had at the time. Fortunately no damage was done to the camera and the lens was a $300 cheapie. Now i have special insurance for my camera gear that is in addition to my renters policy.

I have lost a few cameras over the years. In High School, I borrowed a buddy's underwater housing for my Canon F-1. I took some great shots with it, but when I opened the housing it was full of seawater. Bad seal on the housing was the cause.

Dallaz, How do you like Aperature? Also how would you say it compares to lightroom or PS?

I prefer Aperture (a lot) over lightroom and I've used V.3 of both applications. Its integrated into the Mac OS so well like changing brush sizes with gestures on the mouse pad and scrolling across the photos etc all work very smoothly. Everything from start to finish works well in aperture. I upload my RAW files straight to it when putting them on my computer and editing is very simple with mainly just sliders yet I've done very extensive edits using it. You'll also be amazed at how much shadow detail and lost highlights you can bring back using this software. Certain images I've edited in Aperture have been mistaken for HDR's as an example of how well you can unify the dynamic range of the photos your editing. As for photoshop that is a different comparison in my opinion and I'm using a software called Pixelmator for Mac which I love and recommend to everyone, give it a shot. There's just endless possibilities in a program like that where as aperture and lightroom you can't fiddle with layers and what not. But look up pixelmator for sure. Just like PS only simpler, way cheaper, and smoother on Mac, it has integrated controls as well. hope this helps

San Diego shots:

http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot...35618705_n.jpg

http://a3.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot...82431946_n.jpg

http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot...55564051_n.jpg

Coronado shots:

http://a7.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot...27723260_n.jpg

http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot...14153039_n.jpg

http://a6.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot...74517695_n.jpg

http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot...39603983_n.jpg

mr.onzedge- looks great! including you and dr.onzedge. :tup:

Thanks -- the good doctor is a babe -- a nerd, but a babe. :tiphat:

:tup: my wife is pretty nerdy too. she's a cute girl (obasan) :icon17:




shots taken from my D3100 today after some sealant applied. :) circular polarizer used as it is very sunny and rays are strong today.

http://www.the370z.com/members/kench...g-front-sm.jpg

http://www.the370z.com/members/kench...-g-rear-sm.jpg

Mr. Kenchan -- I like those shots quite a bit. :tup:

thank you. :D on that rear pict i was standing pretty close so made sure my car's bumper did not have a reflection of me. :p

I take a great many pictures of myself in bumpers and assorted body panels.

^^ hahahaha. :D

here's my S04 that's on the G. :p

http://www.the370z.com/members/kench...el-rear-sm.jpg

I know this is OLD, but please check in my sig for the HDR.

You didn't select a soft brush hence why this is such a rough transition.

Not my work, I'm referring to my thread in order to correct.

The trend that I've seen through all 16 pages guys, is that your HDR is WAYYYY too much.

DO NOT over think it!

HDR stands for high dynamic range. (Meaning stops of light) our eyes can see 7-15 stops of light.

Camera's can't unless its an HDR camera.

Now for example, you're in a room inside, and you can SEE all the details in your room, including everything in it, as well as if you look out your window you can see what is outside too!

Your camera can only see one or the other, so see in those terms when you are DOING HDR, is what can my eye see, and what goes beyond that?

I find HDR not very aesthetically pleasing.

All of my shots are non-HDR and not modified/edited in any way. These are all exactly what I got when I shot the image - exposure and composition.

With your recent work the ones of the building, try under exposing your images -1, you'll get more rich colors.

Thanks -- I will try that.

YOU betchat :)D

:tiphat:

MY NEW LOOK

Just installed my Aero Jacket (Sunline, Shine Auto) kit w/ the exception of the front lip which I will be putting on this weekend, so I took her out for a photo shoot. All shots were made with a Nikon D700 and Nikon 70-200mm 2.8 lens. They were edited in aperture with the exception of the first photo which I used Photomatix to add the palm trees instead of just a blue sky from a photo I took in Barbados.

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http://images.us.viewbook.com/db4bdf...f678_large.jpg

#2
http://images.us.viewbook.com/11a599...b5fd_large.jpg

#3
http://images.us.viewbook.com/c02277...5949_large.jpg

#4
http://images.us.viewbook.com/0f4477...14fb_large.jpg

^^^ Good work there, Dallaz.

so with all this flooding in thailand, wonder how it would affect Nikon... (?)

My D700 which I bought for $2,000 was going for $25-2700 on Craigslist just weeks after the power plant crisis, which was almost what they sold for brand new years ago. I haven't checked recently but I'm pretty sure they just moved their operations a little further from the that area until everything got cleared up. pricing is more likely back to normal cause Nikon is rolling out new cameras now.

Shoot Canon.

That's true. Your camera is going for the "overall light exposure" not color exposure, so for example your deep blue sky your seeing in real life may wash out to an aqua-ish color, your reds may wash out to orange-ish or in some cases pink-ish color, etc. You can check all of this in camera if you have a newer camera with color histograms.

cool. im my line of work i got customers asking left and right if i source materials from thailand. luckily no. :D

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Some from yesterday with ZForce, Hal and me:

http://www.the370z.com/members/onzed...al-onzedge.jpg

http://www.the370z.com/members/onzed...al-onzedge.jpg

http://www.the370z.com/members/onzed...al-onzedge.jpg