Weekend shoot with dirtyd

[deegee]

I am still a novice photographer at best however I am slowly getting the hang of things. Shot with an EOS400d, this is dirtyd's MS3 after we cleaned her on Sunday:

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HDR1

HDR2

This is about half the shots. I am still working on cleaning the rest and I will post them later. BTW, always looking for more subjects to shoot or perhaps to get some MS3s together for a shoot.

Thanks for looking.

 

[ij1889]

oh man those are nice pics, the last 2 especially

 

[ZoomZoom Diva]

Nice shots... I prefer to crop my main subject more front and center, but that's a matter of personal taste.

 

[mndsm]

You were right off Hiawatha, weren't you? Looks like that area.

 

[deegee]

Don't know how opposed mnmazda is to other cars *gasp* but here is one of mine in HDR as well:

 

[mndsm]

That is a SICK shot. I'm a fan of STi's myself, so no worries there. The sky plus the sun off the side of the car, WOW.

 

[Workdawg]

It looks sweet, but the photoshopping just makes it look fake.

 

[dirtyd]

BAHAHAHA! You posted the one with the cop in there! Sneaky Sneaky!

 

[JustROLLIN]

Very cool pics.

 

[AJ]

HDR2, FUCKING SICK! I want a shot like that for my 6, please?

 

[Big Nate]

Those are some great pics good work.

 

[deegee]

You were right off Hiawatha, weren't you? Looks like that area.

It was actually off of Pierce Butler, North of Minnehaha Park.

Thanks for all of the compliments guys!

 

[DrWebster]

I was hoping you'd do some HDR shots. I took some when I was in Duluth last spring, and it really does make car paint stand out.

 

[AJ]

Someone needs to explain HDR before we start handing out teabags!

 

[StealthSpeed3]

very nice shots. i'd be open for a MS3 gathering/photo op on a sunday or fri night

 

[Matt D.]

The HDR shots look cool, especially the second one. The only thing that's bad is where there is white or reflected light (the wheels caught my eye) it looks terrible overexposed.

 

[DrWebster]

HDR stands for High Dynamic Range. When shooting pictures, the camera (if in automatic mode) or the photographer decides how to expose the picture -- basically, how much light to let through to the film/digital imager. Inherently, some parts of the picture will turn out just right, but some parts will look too dark and some too light. When shooting for HDR, you take several pictures from exactly the same angle, but change the exposure for each -- one that makes the dark areas look good, one that makes the midtones look good, and one that makes the highlights look good (for example). Then you load those shots into Photoshop, and it merges them together, giving you an image in which all areas are exposed properly. It ultimately produces a very vibrant image, but one that's unnatural (as the human eye doesn't look at things like that naturally), hence the novelty factor.

 

[LASERBLUE135]

Very jelous, I would really like shots of my ride too.

 

[Matt D.]

Do you NEED a SLR camera for this or would I be able to mount my Canon SD750 on a tripod and go to town?

 

[deegee]

Mornin' all!

Do you NEED a SLR camera for this or would I be able to mount my Canon SD750 on a tripod and go to town?

Any camera where you can take multiple exposure levels will work really. I shot these in a single shot RAW format but if you don't have raw just take 3-5 shots at +/1-2 and merge them to HDR using software.

If you truly would like your car photographed shoot me a pm. I am not promising anything special but I'd try my best.