I have a question. Are there any secrets to getting brighter, more vibrant colors? I noticed looking at Carl's photos from the ice race that the WRB really sticks out. Heres an example of what I mean. The first pic is one I took of Karen's WRB WRX. The second is one that Carl took of his WRB STi. There is a vast difference in the coloration. Is it all in post processing / Photoshop work? Is it a hardware issue (filters, body, lens) or is it just operator error? Mine: Carl's:
you do any post processing at all? shooting RAW? part of it will be your glass, part of it will be your camera settings and part of it will be pp I can't give away all my secrets though lol
haha! I dont expect you to. I have not touched any of my photos in photoshop yet, besides resizing them. I normally shoot .jpg, as I have not started to learn about processing RAWs in photoshop. I was shooting through a canon 18-55mm IS lens with a polarizing filter. I guess it is time to tackle the photoshop learning curve... EDIT: Just did some research. It turns out I cannot open RAW files from my XSI in PS CS2. there is a huge mess with unsupported versions, updates, backwards compatibility, and other BS. So it looks like I need to convert any RAWs I shoot to either TIFF or DNG files. I will have to start looking for software to do this soon.
Use a polarizing filter that you can adjust. And then adjust your contrast and brightness, hue and saturation.
photoshop can make a HUGE improvement on photos. but sometimes it just takes a tad more contrast and a tiny bit of saturation to make colors pop. the lense you use makes the biggest diffrence on clarity and quality.
Various Images From Events Taken In 2008 Sorry I don't have any automotive related image to share. Just a few images from various events I've been shooting from last year. I'm learning the curve like everyone else here and would take any helpful pointers to get better and consistent with my shots. Enjoy them for what it is:
The first thing I see is the difference in the color of the snow. I think once you get your snow to be more white, that will also help with everything else. Then it is down to camera settings and PP work. My d300 likes the saturation set to +1, but most people with a d300 will also use the same thing. Russ
WhOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO :yumyum::yumyum::yumyum: just saw that pic. nomnom gorgeous worthy :yumyum:
I have a question for you picture people. I have a Canon 5is, I take a lot of pictures indoors of my kids, my daughter does a lot of ballet and dancing. Usually these places are not very well lit, or just even in my house taking shots of them playing around or whatever all my pictures come up grainy. Flash is on as high as it can go, I got a cheapy diffuser thing so that shots are not all blown out, but still everything comes up grainy. Sometimes even when it's not that dark the pics come out like crap. I'm thinking of getting a DSLr because I keep blaming the camera but I'm not sure if it's just me not setting the camera up properly for the shots.
the dark conditions are making your camera use high iso. pretty much any digital camera will have an "auto iso" setting but is usually always turned on with point and shoot cameras like yours. here is a link for info on what iso does. http://digital-photography-school.com/iso-settings the grainy stuff in the pictures is called noise. a noisy photo is one with lots and lots of grain. typically you cant do too much about noise with a point and shoot and iso clearness differes with the more money you spend on your camera. the new canon Xsi is pretty good with iso for an entry level Dslr. or you could get one of the Dslr cameras that dont let you chenge lenses. they work well and dont cost as much as a slr with detachable lenses. thats if your not looking for something hardcore and still looking for better quality.
I got some awesome shots of the new IS 2 door coupe today. And just found out I can't post them until this summer >< a few months ago I won an AdFed award for the chair picture i posted earlier in this thread.
lucky! come summer you had better post these shots. wow it looks super light in those pictures. more like 50%
ya i think its cause of the wierd lighting, when the sun shines its darker and when there is no sun its easy to see through
I just started shooting alil more seriously, If anyone has some good direction on some reading or tutorials both on PS and just digital photgraphy that would be great (I have already found some good ones through this thread). Pretty much just started working in the manual mode 99% of the time, so I guess thats a start.
^ good lookin' pics! I really like the last one with the shadow. I dont know too much about the photography tutorial stuff, but I have had good luck looking for photoshop tutorials on deviant art. They have a whole tutorial section there. The biggest thing I did was just take a decent picture into PS and start playing around with it. The most important thing to remember/learn is using layer in PS. Layers are key. I only know 0.001% of photoshop but working with layers has improved my photos alot. mainly adjustment layers for photos (ie levels and contrast type stuff), but for drawing and digital art layers are even more important. I cant do RAWs in my PS so I cant help you there.
yea i just got a copy of PS CS3 on my desktop need to touch up acouple things, such as pic 1 has a lil red dot on the suby emblem, and theres a halo on the window of pic 2.
night shot is rather oof, light levels are off. when shooting at night use a remote shutter release or the timer. manual focus may be necessary. watch the histogram also too much foreground in the composition
manual focus was pretty rough to use everything was so dark, we didnt have much to work with on lighing besides other head lights... I didnt even think about looking at the hist. between shots, thanks for the pointer. Shouldn't i be able to clean that up a bit in PS I just ran the auto adjust for level and curve. I have a couple other shots (before we tried lighting up the car) where i was able to get good focus and lighting on the car... but then the skyline was washed out or it was the car that was to dark and the skyline was good. I thought about trying to blend the two pics together some how.
I like the winky piggy, also in the 3rd pic it looks like you have a shark decal on the lower corner of your bumper.
pretty nice shots - i prefer the second one. 2 minor things: there is a light streak or something obtrusive coming out of the lower left side - I would clone stamp that out; and your horizon is drooping toward the right
Thanks for the feedback. Those are both just the raw images, I still need to do the post-processing on them. I think the second needs to be darkened a little and maybe a little color correction. I also thought that it looked like it was leaning, but it also might be because the left side is so heavy and the bridges are getting closer to the camera placement.
Just a couple pics I took today. as always let me know what you think. I just touched up the curves a hair in these pics.
