The Badge on this one said Bentley

 

Motor, ya gotta quit putting the APS sensor glass on the FF camera, the vignetting is too much. Seriously though, I think the limit was back there on the edge darkening technique. Was the car parked on the Freeway or in motion? Is it just me, or do those wheels look like the new S-Heavies on the R56?

I won't post any photos I've taken while driving since they all suck. Jim does a good job by using wide angle glass (12-24mm), manual pre-focus and Shutter priority mode. YMMV.

 

But we haven't had any decent clouds and the pale flat blue on all my picswas starting to make me *insert puke smiley here*

Been putting a lot of thought into mount/rigs so I can hopefully start to pull off smooth rolling shots but between stiff suspensions and have a max of 10ft before pothole buckle dive or other pavement obstruction I'mnotbeing particularly optimistic. I also desperatly need to find a sensor cleanig shop becausethedustis unbearable @ wide open f/4 and f/3.5 and I'd really like to use some smaller aperatures (let the wheels actually move) thatI haven't been for over two years now.

 

In the interest of giving you something new to play with and learn, somewhere in PS is a filter that generates realistic looking clouds. Can't remember the filter name though?

I'm still lusting after one of these, maybe fabricate my own version of it. Just have far too many honey-dos nowadays to spend time with rigging without having my head conked by a rolling pin from my better half. I had a great chat last Saturday with Dave Bunting about rigging. I think you're going to have to find a smooth road somewhere and push the car to get the smooth photo you're after. Note the lack of the driver in this motion photo. I've always heard such wonderful things about the quality roads in the Chicago area, much like the Boston area in fact. Maybe see if you can find a road that's been recently paved before the cold white stuff arrives again?

Jim tried this sensor cleaner and recommends it. I've been meaning to get over to Calumet to pick one up myself. The price is right.

 

I had the same problem on my d70 a while back and stopped into my local camera shop to see if they could clean it. While they said they didn't do the cleaning, they reccomended a cleaning kit they had. It's basically a huge q-tip the width of the sensor and some alcohol based cleaning solution. Pretty easy to use, once you get over the idea of rubbing on your sensor with something. You have to keep in mind, the dust is actually on the low pass filter that covers the sensor, and it's made out of pretty tough glass. A pretty easy process that I'm now comfortable with doing again and again. There are tons of guides online http://www.luminous-landscape.com/es...cleaning.shtml is a pretty good guide.
http://www.photosol.com is the brand of my cleaning kit, they make one specific to most major cameras.

Good luck!

 

hadn't visited this thread in a while, lots of good (new) info. I need to work a bit on my black & white conversion still, but I recently came up with this B&W & color conversion of one of my older AMVIV4 pics... please view at full size...

 

Proof of Concept!

 

Playing with photoshop...

 

 

Motor On, that's an outstanding flower photo. Color me very impressed.

Now is your chance for pay back since I don't contribute here enough (you don't want to see my baby's pictures now do you ) and I'm often too critical of your photo experiments. I'd be interested in anyone else's thoughts too, so don't be shy. I've remixed one of the rejects from the Sept. photo contest and went a bit overboard in photochomp, especially with curves & hue/sat.

Here's my second installment of Psychedelic Art or Pure Cr@p?
(click on the image below for a VERY large version at ~600KB in size)



Found a really good quote from the Photoshop guru Scott Kelby this week in his blog... "I’d rather save my time in Photoshop for the 'fun stuff'. For finishing my files, not fixing them. In other words; life’s too short to spend your time removing telephone wires."

 

Way too much time on your hands. ;^p

 

You did a great job on the digital frame around the Mini logo's...

 

There is an interesting technique tutorial posted at this link that show a creative technique that can be applied directly in Adobe Lightroom. Had to give it a whirl and tried it on of Kurt's photos that I had handy. Certainly a different look for Swifty and it removes the sunset too. I'm still not sure if I like the artistic effect as it looks similar to cr@ppy HDR photos, but those photos are en vogue these days.

 

Wow

 

If you're shooting Nikon, the authorized service shop is in Morton Grove. You can stop by and for $40-ish, they'll do a checkup of your camera and clean your sensor in about a half-hour. Whether that's worth the price is your choice to make. (I go there because mucking around with the low-pass filter gives me the *******.)

 

No. I shoot Canon (Way to be subtle I know)

Gave Dust-Aid a got and it got the lighter newer stuff. I also picked up a product called Visible Dust that I'm hoping will help Get some of the more serious stuff, after that it's either liquid swabs or replacing the low pass filter which may very radpidly approach the point of it being cost worthy to replace/up grade (also have an out of round lens mount a few burnt out sensoe pixels and a few going on the LCD)

Lesson learned clean the dust off at the first sight of it!

 

cleaning your sensor is easier than you might think. try micro-tools.com (i think thats the website), order some Eclipse fluid, and depending on your camera order the 14mm sensor wand (14mm for 1.5-1.6x crop bodies, 18mm if you have a Full Frame camera), some PEC PADS and do it yourself. the sensor is very durable. you dont have to push too hard to clean it up.

 

Well, when I say that it gives me the *******, it's because I have experience with my incompetence

(P.S. Boo Canon! Woo Nikon! )

 

My issue is I have what seems to be called "welded on" dust that has been there for over a year. The tasks to clean it I agree are relatively simple and I have crossed thatworking on the sensor barrier after sorting through much myth, unfortunately it just seems like I might be a little too late.

With the cost of cleaning (if the Visible dust fails) approaching $200 and given the other body issues with the camera it's looking fiscally more responsible (given the realative out of date, limits I pushonthe 10D, cost of cleaning, cost of repairs and potenital damage to my lenses currently being caused) to start looking seriously at the 40D; but thats also an extremely price justification.

 

I recently bought a 30D—good prices on both new & used!

 

ahh ic ic, yea you really have to keep up with the sensor cleaning otherwise they become a PITA to clean

 

Screw being in vogue. Classic is what it means, class. Some HDR pictures look way too fake.

That rendition is interesting, if one didn't see the original.

 

More of a spotting while I was sitting in traffic and pointing the 70-200in the general direction. But learning Picasa2 since it's all I've got to edit right now.

For those interested, click the image below to see just how bad the sensor is at f/32. This is AFTER several cleanings with two different methods.

 

Ewwwu! Motor, you also used a wet cleaning method too, right? Boy, I do not want to test my cameras as I'm scared mine will look even worse if this is what yours looks like after cleaning.