Hi, just got my D70 and wanted to experiment some shots on Neo. Some post edit with PS9. Hope you like and provide some comments and suggestions. Thanks

 

I like the color and lighting especially in #1. One thing you may want to avoid in the future is that "antenna" look caused by the light pole. Car looks great though. Love those wheels.

 

Very nice pics Except ... for tha funny looking pole sticking out of the top of the car

I would suggest you work on your composition and watch the backgrounds. The backgrounds can detract greatly and that is exactly what happened.

 

Although, in the first picture, if that light pole were any larger or closer to the car, it would have looked exactly like a big wind-up key!

 

Neo looks sharp!
+1 on all of the other posters comments. If the parking garage is close to you, experiment with different locations on the top deck and try to minimize the distractions. Try getting down low and see if that helps or going much higher by standing on a light post concrete base. Play with it and have some fun.

Also get a circular polarizer filter for your lens. You'll find it is a big help in eliminating the distractions in the car's paint (look at the light poles on the front quarter panels and door on Neo), plus it can help making the sky more dramatic.

Looking forward to seeing what you come up with next!

 

A very nice first try! Another ditto on watching your backgrounds. Getting farther back and shooting longer (I assume you have a zoom of some sort though I can't see your EXIF data) will help you isolate a smaller slice of background, like you've done in the third shot. Often moving the car around is better than walking around it and watch the details--I'd close the sunroof, roll up the windows, and remove that green object from the dash.

 

wow thanks for the suggestions and comments. I'll get some more new shots today.

 

very cool pics i would say

 

Alright, I ran into a problem. When I try to save my image on PS9 as jpeg or other compressed format I lost ton of colors and depth. I shot in RAW format. Any advice? Thanks

 

PS9? Photosuite? Can it handle Nikon raw files?

RAW files are huge because they are exactly what the sensor sees. Compressed files are lossy ... you lose data. RAW stores at least 12 bits of data, pretty sure. JPG maybe 8 bits? There has to be data lost.

Read here

You can't create something from nothing

 

Can you post the "after" .JPG? When you say you lost a "ton" of colours, do you mean that the final picture was *really* blotchy, like it only had 256 colours?

I notice a tiny difference between my RAW files and the final .JPGs, but it's certainly not anything horrendous.

 

Thanks for replies. I don't know what happened, but I converted RAW to jpg then edit with Photoshop 9 and did not have much color lost. Very odd, I guess I have to research more on this matter. Anyways... here is some shots that I took at an old factory. Once again, thanks for your suggestions.

 

I know nothing about RAW but your colors look great. I'm with everyone on th elight pole in the back of the shots...the 2nd set are great! I like that location a lot (the pics might even benefit from a little vinyetting)

 

+1 on most of what stoo said, loe the location and reading that bit about vinyetting had wheels turning instantly Last one's my fave ,2nd to last I'd love if the MINI was on there other side so right now I just really like it

THe swap from RAW to Jepeg does little on the basic look when you straight up down grade it, where it makes a huge differance is in the finer post processing, because it gives you much more information to work with, andyou can get a lot more detail out of things like the dark wheels and the front of the Cooper's air dam disappearing.

 

Welcome to the D70 club! The photos look great, especially the 2nd set. I've been wanting to try shooting in RAW but I don't have the software for it.

 

Hmmm Canon DSLRs come with the software to shoot Raw out of the box

'Ancient" 10d FTW!!!

BTW Just saw the Milwaukee location, where exactly is that 2nd spot? I really think we need to get all the Chicago/So. WI PHotogs together for a day of shooting!

 

Thanks for your kind words.

Stoo: I tried to add some vinyetting in the lot shot, but after the the conversion to jpeg I lost most of it :(

valcom111t: Thanks, I am really enjoying it. I am still in the learning process and experimenting. Hope I have more time to play in the summer.

Motor On: There are a few old factories near my neighborhood on S 62th in West Allis. Also, getting photologs together for one day shoot sounds great. Please let me know!!!

 

If you see a DS/B zipping around the area, it could be me. I work in the area—54th & Electric.

 

West Allis, Wisconsin? I've been there lots of times to shoot at the Milwaukee Mile.

I like that second set, too. Cool location.

When you say you lost colors, do you mean saturation? I'm wondering if you shot in Adobe RGB colorspace and didn't convert to sRGB for the web. The shots you posted look fine, though.

Mark

 

eurazn: I was looking at all your photos, and noticed they appear very high contrast on my computers. The blacks are completely lacking in detail. So I downloaded a photo and "took a deeper look" through the lens of the histogram. Here's what I found:



The histogram tells the story! It doesn't matter what monitor you're using, whether it's calibrated or not, the histogram always remains the same. It's the graphical tale of your image, and this one says to me: too much contrast, and no details in the shadows.
You get a nice "high key" image, but I keep wanting to adjust my monitor...which would be silly 'coz there's nothing wrong with its calibration.
Anyway, just thought I'd share.

cheers,

 

I think I see you some mornings parking on 54th. I'll make sure to wave

MarkS: Yes, the saturation changes noticeably. Thanks

 

Thanks Dr. Phil, I have have a Mac and I don't know what I am doing wrong, but I can see the difference of the same image on my Mac and any PC.

 

Nice foggy day by the lake. Very cool scene.

 

Very cool, I was rather tempted go spend a few hours shootong myself last night (in the fog even thicker fog here), but got sidetracked.

I like the yellow on the car and clouds but it seems a bit too pronounced on the grass and bushes, seem to make them more of a cometeing notion and destracts from the main subject more so than complimenting it.

 

Thanks for the comment.