The official photography thread!

[LotusLust]

it was a beautiful day in the zion neighborhood

[RENDERMAN]

430 at the wheels..

[VisualEchos]

[AnsisK]

Some recent shots:

[Mr_Baker]

Originally Posted by AnsisK

Some recent shots:

Nice shots, from this post and previously. Your stuff stands out from the crowd.

I particularly like the silver Ferrari (?) in front the red brick wall. Nice vignetting, and the simple composition works well.

The composition of the Audi shot is nice, but I think the Audi is in sort of a light hole, with the light getting brighter off into the distance. The butt of the minivan doesn't help.

I realize in many cases you take the shot you can get and rarely can you arrange every aspect of the photo. So while you perhaps weren't considering the minivan butt as an integral element of the photo, there wasn't much you could do about it. On the other hand, the real sweet ride in this photo is the minivan, we all know. Why is that silver car in the photo?

The composition/tilt in the Mini photo is really nice. The upper left corner of the white wall is nicely cut out. Great angles. You have a nice eye for interesting locations, backgrounds.

The black & tan car (mmm, beer) is a nice location too. Packard? What is that car? Looking more closely, the oddly modernized house is an interesting (anachronistic) mix with the old car and leaves. The house looks like it's tilted left, maybe due to angle or perspective.

The Mercedes looks like a typical street scene, albeit with a nice wide angle lens. Not as nice to me as the others. I'd like it better without the Porsche behind it.

The angle of the wall behind the Maserati distracts me from the car in that shot.

Great soft light in all of these. That is maybe the most important part of it all.

I realize you didn't ask for detailed feedback. No offense intended, carry on with your good work.

[AnsisK]

Originally Posted by Mr_Baker

Nice shots, from this post and previously. Your stuff stands out from the crowd.

I particularly like the silver Ferrari (?) in front the red brick wall. Nice vignetting, and the simple composition works well.

The composition of the Audi shot is nice, but I think the Audi is in sort of a light hole, with the light getting brighter off into the distance. The butt of the minivan doesn't help.

I realize in many cases you take the shot you can get and rarely can you arrange every aspect of the photo. So while you perhaps weren't considering the minivan butt as an integral element of the photo, there wasn't much you could do about it. On the other hand, the real sweet ride in this photo is the minivan, we all know. Why is that silver car in the photo?

The composition/tilt in the Mini photo is really nice. The upper left corner of the white wall is nicely cut out. Great angles. You have a nice eye for interesting locations, backgrounds.

The black & tan car (mmm, beer) is a nice location too. Packard? What is that car? Looking more closely, the oddly modernized house is an interesting (anachronistic) mix with the old car and leaves. The house looks like it's tilted left, maybe due to angle or perspective.

The Mercedes looks like a typical street scene, albeit with a nice wide angle lens. Not as nice to me as the others. I'd like it better without the Porsche behind it.

The angle of the wall behind the Maserati distracts me from the car in that shot.

Great soft light in all of these. That is maybe the most important part of it all.

I realize you didn't ask for detailed feedback. No offense intended, carry on with your good work.

I'm not offended at all. Thanks a lot for the feedback. I don't have any control in these shots, they're all just cars I stumble upon in my commute. Shots such as the Audi, I had other angles of it that didn't expose the car how I wanted it. Things like the angle of the building (Packard and Maserati) are good pointers, thanks for picking up on stuff like that.

And the car is a Packard Clipper. The owner lives in the modern house, and the Packard is his daily.

Again, thanks for the feedback. I'm going to try to get some shoots together this summer.

[Mr_Baker]

Originally Posted by AnsisK

I'm not offended at all. Thanks a lot for the feedback. I don't have any control in these shots, they're all just cars I stumble upon in my commute. Shots such as the Audi, I had other angles of it that didn't expose the car how I wanted it. Things like the angle of the building (Packard and Maserati) are good pointers, thanks for picking up on stuff like that.

And the car is a Packard Clipper. The owner lives in the modern house, and the Packard is his daily.

Again, thanks for the feedback. I'm going to try to get some shoots together this summer.

I'm a big fan of taking what's available when you see it. There's plenty of ideas of what could be staged, but rarely do those things happen, and many times they're not as good anyway. You appear to see a lot of nice cars in your commute. The issue I have with the Packard shot might just be related to the height of the house. I saw a couple of pages back where you mentioned tilt/shift lenses and thought that could help. Ah, well, looking at it again, the main corner of the house (the line of which intersects the car) doesn't look like it's falling away at the top. This must've been a telephoto lens, looks fairly flattened out to me (which I like in this shot). Good relationship between the car, tree and house, BTW, and classy daily driver!

It could just be the reason I think it's crooked is because I can't seem to take a hand-held level picture, so I'm always adjusting after the fact. And since I'm in the distortion correction in CS2 for that issue, it's pretty easy to adjust the tilt if there's a problem. Cheaper than a $2000 TS lens. And TS lenses don't encourage point and shoot, rapid-fire shots, do they?

Another random thought - you must've upped the contrast in these shots in one way or another. It looks just right to me, not over the top. The Merc may show it more than the others, but it looks right in that shot. Silver cars look good a little hopped up.

[AnsisK]

Originally Posted by Mr_Baker

I'm a big fan of taking what's available when you see it. There's plenty of ideas of what could be staged, but rarely do those things happen, and many times they're not as good anyway. You appear to see a lot of nice cars in your commute. The issue I have with the Packard shot might just be related to the height of the house. I saw a couple of pages back where you mentioned tilt/shift lenses and thought that could help. Ah, well, looking at it again, the main corner of the house (the line of which intersects the car) doesn't look like it's falling away at the top. This must've been a telephoto lens, looks fairly flattened out to me (which I like in this shot). Good relationship between the car, tree and house, BTW, and classy daily driver!

It could just be the reason I think it's crooked is because I can't seem to take a hand-held level picture, so I'm always adjusting after the fact. And since I'm in the distortion correction in CS2 for that issue, it's pretty easy to adjust the tilt if there's a problem. Cheaper than a $2000 TS lens. And TS lenses don't encourage point and shoot, rapid-fire shots, do they?

Another random thought - you must've upped the contrast in these shots in one way or another. It looks just right to me, not over the top. The Merc may show it more than the others, but it looks right in that shot. Silver cars look good a little hopped up.

I bike a lot, so I can cover more ground faster than driving in the city. It's fairly convenient and fun, so I go out for rides on my own time often.

I don't recall speaking of tilt shift lenses, but I definitely want to get more falloff with my lens, I rarely get the depth I want. I wouldn't need a TS for that though, I can just play around with something more realistic, monetarily. For the Packard, I was probably around 70mm f/5.6.

I definitely play around with levels here and there in Lightroom2.0, and I've gotten very disciplined in not blowing out everything to HDR levels. It takes a bit of control, even with the blacks, to get a mature look. I like a little contrast, but just as I don't want burning highlights, I try to avoid dark abyss black spots.

[mopho]

Some pics of my friend Julia, who who died today from cancer. These pictures were taken a few days after she shaved most of her hair off in anticipation of the effects of her treatment






Playing around with a wig

[RENDERMAN]

Beautiful pictures and woman. I'm sorry to hear that, I lost my Mom to Cancer last Christmas...

[RENDERMAN]

Besides my wife, My beauty

[goelise]

Originally Posted by mopho

Some pics of my friend Julia, who who died today from cancer. These pictures were taken a few days after she shaved most of her hair off in anticipation of the effects of her treatment






Playing around with a wig

Beautiful pictures of a beautiful woman. My sincere condolences.

[doug_porsche]

Olympus fe-430, the trees are budding in Denver!

[jtj]

Recent one of my 2yr old daughter... more from this set can be seen HERE