HDR shots of the 10th

[MBH]

what do ya charge? lol i would be down to have you do this for my car.

As long as I don't have to drive far I don't mind doing it for somebody that I like :)

That is just flat out nasty. Your car looks mean as hell in those shots.

Keep them comming man.

You need some HIDs and itll really be sick.

Thanks, and believe me I know I need some HIDs!! I want to see the different temperatures in person before I buy though, so thats all I'm waiting on... hint hint! Till then I can photoshop them to be HID if I want.. I used to do it for a friend's audi all the time lol.

I'm torn between 4300k and 6k. Would prefer something with just a faint hint of blue like 5k for hi/low and 5k for fogs, but I can't find any... HID gurus please link me!! :)

I use an rebel Xti with a canon IS 17-85mm lens, and I too use photomatix for HDR shots. i haven't taken any HRD's of my car yet, but I've done a few of my family's farm and its like you said, they either come out incredible or they look like crap.

Nice pics!

Yeah, its all about the lighting no matter how you try to photograph something. I've found that if I'm going out in the middle of the day I might as well leave the memory card at home... HDR just reinforces that with 3 pictures lol

if you were selling them i was going to make an offer

maybe in a few years......

Thanks, Ill keep that in mind You pics are great

I think you have my number, if you want to get together some time just gimmie a call or send me a PM (preferred). We only live like 10-15 minutes apart.

haha i would be down, man your car looks awesome in them pics, good job man

Me too, so long as its anytime after labor day weekend

The pictures look awesome. Maybe we can hook up for a photo shoot and you can teach me how to use that camera better.

Hell yeah, I'd love to do that. I'm just a noob when it comes to this stuff though. Everything I've learned has been by trying to emulate what my friend does, although I don't think he's done HDR on cars yet

i think i crapped my pants haha wow bo those shots look amazing...everyone has me itching for an hdr camera now.....hey bo we should get together sometime this week an shoot some shots...you only live 10 min away from me ya know lol

No camera short of $10,000 will shoot in HDR, you have to merge them in post processing. Lots of cameras do have AEB (auto exposure bracketing), which will allow you to take 3 or more (mine takes 3) different exposures back to back to back. Its a pretty slick feature, even if you're not shooting for HDR, you can save some pictures that would otherwise be under/over exposed. I have about 10 shots like that that one pic came out good, but it was metered wrong, so I couldn't merge them to HDR

looks good bo..

Thanks Scott, let me know if you're ever coming back to the track/burgh area again & I'll try to make it out

[scott5]

i will hit you up with a text today

[wick]

That first pic is amazing!!!!!!!!!!! That would have to be wallpaper on your computer. Nicely done.

[MBH]

That first pic is amazing!!!!!!!!!!! That would have to be wallpaper on your computer. Nicely done.

I don't like having my car as my own wall paper. IDK, something about it just makes me distracted lol... I have all but the 2nd shot in a bunch of high resolutions if you guys want em, just PM me for them

[wick]

I don't like having my car as my own wall paper. IDK, something about it just makes me distracted lol... I have all but the 2nd shot in a bunch of high resolutions if you guys want em, just PM me for them

HAHAHAHA. I would almost send that in to mm&ff. Shows enough to make it nice and sneaky.

[MBH]

seriously?? you think that first shot is that good? how would I even go about doing something like that?

[wick]

seriously?? you think that first shot is that good? how would I even go about doing something like that?

Go in the back of the mag at the readers rides section. It has all the info there. Send a nice front/side shot also. Serioulsy, its a nice picture. I need to get off my ass and learn how to use this new camera my wife got. Some 7.? pixle cannon. I just dont know how to use it yet. HAHAHAHAHAHA

[kluski]

Holy cow those are nice. This makes me want to go out and do a nice photoshoot with my car again.

I have just started to play with HDR with scenic shots and am using Photoshop CS3 only, not Photomatix. Does photomatix help out that much more?

[MBH]

Holy cow those are nice. This makes me want to go out and do a nice photoshoot with my car again.

I have just started to play with HDR with scenic shots and am using Photoshop CS3 only, not Photomatix. Does photomatix help out that much more?

From my experience with it, yes. the CS3 HDR feature left the photos very very bland, where as the photomatix brought out some nice pop to the colors

[MBH]

just a quick teaser of the pics I took last night...
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whitegt02

^couldn't get it to come out in HDR, so I tried some other tonal stuff. Dramatic lighting FTW.

[PunisherStang]

damn duke nukem those are some awesome pics lol....where can i get an hdr camera? an how much do they roughly cost? i would love to start takin pics like these

[MBH]

damn duke nukem those are some awesome pics lol....where can i get an hdr camera? an how much do they roughly cost? i would love to start takin pics like these

like I have said before, the camera isn't an HDR camera. Any camera can take HDR shots, some have features that let them come out better than others, such as auto exposure bracketing. All you need are 3+ pictures that are identical aside from the different exposures and you can make one, meaning you're going to need a tripod, a camera that can shoot in either .RAW format and turn it into different exposures in photoshop (if you don't know, google it) or use auto exposure bracketing like I did (camera takes those 3 shots automatically, back to back to back off of a timed delay).

example:
I took these 3 and made this one.

1st = metered shot (ev)
2nd = underexposed (-2 ev)
3rd = over exposed (+2 ev)
4th = merged to HDR in photomatix (software) which will blend the 3 together - taking the dark areas and filling them with the bright picture, and the light areas and filling them with the dark picture in order to pick up details that our eyes can see, but the camera can't from a single exposure. our eyes can see 12 exposures at a time, which is why camera pictures often look much different than what we see

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[kluski]

Are you using just HDR or tonal mapping too? If it isn't too much trouble, can you post the three befores and with the one after as a sample? I like the technical "behind the scenes" part too.

Punisher:

There are no HDR cameras. Any camera that can take and overexposed, underexposed and normal exposed shot can do this. It is the software program that merges the three (or more) shots together that makes them look all the better.

Edit - looks like we wee typing at the smae time

[MBH]

Edit - looks like we wee typing at the smae time

Just going to say the same thing lol

I'm having photomatix merge them to HDR, and when you do that it makes you use the tone mapping. For the picture of the white GT I just posted I used photomatix's tonal compression feature. I can't get those shots to work with me to save my life though, which is driving me nuts. I've never shot a white car before :(

[kluski]

4th = merged to HDR in photomatix (software) which will blend the 3 together - taking the dark areas and filling them with the bright picture, and the light areas and filling them with the dark picture in order to pick up details that our eyes can see, but the camera can't from a single exposure.

Ah, plus a little photoshop background adjustment. That is what got me at first was how dark the background was. For some reasons I thought that was all that was done. Damn my real job for interferring with my thinking.

[MBH]

I'm sneaky, what can I say

[John4cam]

Thanks John!

If you want to take some good shots of your car to help it sell, let me know. I'd love to see it in person some time before she's gone!

That would be awesome let me know the next time you guys meet up or whenever you feel like taking some pics, Lol.

[PunisherStang]

wow im so confused lol....bascially whats a good camera to buy an how much will i spend on it.

[thedak]

Great Pics. I am going to try the AEB function tonight.

Just bought a Canon Rebel XSi. It is a great camera for the $

I just need to learn how to use it correctly.

Here is a quick picture from a show this weekend.

[no1fordgirl]

Amazing pics, Bo! Very nice. I agree, it's magazine material. DO IT!! :)