CCColtsicehockey

I felt like taking some different kind of photos tonight so I went to the purina mill we have around at 1am and took some picture with just the parking lights that had around and they came out pretty good I think. My personal favorite is the last one.

drigo

nice...did you have your camera setting on sepia mode? looks good

CCColtsicehockey

no they have orange lights for the lights around the building

euroStyle

you should try adjusting with photoshop, you can get much better results.

CCColtsicehockey

how did you do that? i dont really know anything about photshop other than how to use the clone tool and to crop images. please explain what you did. can you do what ever you did to that picture to the last picture of the set. thanks

bufo

looks good... but you may need more lighting on the car. 2nd to last pic is the best IMO.

Dan Martin

Here's my take on the last two shots:








I recorded my steps as a Photoshop Action, so PM me your email address and I'll send it to you.

CCColtsicehockey

wow they turned out amazing.

euroStyle

lot of times, its the Level you need to adjust. and if the color is bad, mess around with the hue and color balance.

NickR

Both enhanced photos are pretty grainy. You either sharpened too much or didn't take a high res pic.

There are some easy things you can do with color curves and histograms to improve almost all photos in about 5 minutes.

Dan Martin

Both photos were pretty heavily underexposed so it's not surprising that they'd be grainy when level corrected. The histogram is showing a lot of detail has been clipped on the dark end. Having the original photo as opposed to a 672px wide copy would also help.

CCColtsicehockey

if i send you the original pictures would you do those two again and see how they come out.

Dan Martin

Sure, check your PM

JLavino

Dan Martin knows his stuff on Photography. Those pics are grainy though. Personally, if you can set your shutter speed to about 5 seconds on the S2 I would. Im not sure what settings the S2 has and, I dont feel like looking it up either. Use a tripod, and color balance, you can get pretty drastic colors and a crystal clear image.

NeoChaser

tip, use tireshine, esp for night shots.

HONgDA

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Car looks dirty. You should've taken some shots with the headlights ON.

NeoChaser

also, try to have a well lit place. ur subject should be the best lit object.... last tip, try
not to have a vertical shot when doing a profile of the car.

wclark

r u serious? the last one looks all crappy and grainy

matelot

ouch