EuRTSX

I just felt bored, and decided to post a picture that I took after work yesterday of my friend's car's wheel, which he just got his Kics Neo Chrome lug nuts on, sick!







Anyway, enjoy, until I can afford a Filter.

It's hard to take pictures of a white car, to get every detail, lines, etc.

Any suggestions or things I can purchase would help. Just a stock Nikon D70S for now. Suggestions on Filters would help as well. I'm having a hard time getting the sky into the picture ie. clouds and brick walls as well.

hrj

iTrader: (1)

What lens do you have now?

srika

hey man, have you considered Adobe Lightroom?

ps. nice lugs!

kyle77777

thats a sexy setup he has there

EuRTSX

It's the stock 18-70mm lens that comes on the D70S.

EuRTSX

Yeah, I've actually tried that out a couple times. Would it help me at all with obtaining a better quality picture with a white object? Or getting the descriptive lines of a brick building? Those two are the hardest things right now to fix.

EuRTSX

Thanks, I envy his set-up and he's a budget tuner as well as I am. We both work at the same Country Club, so yeah, we live on water and crackers, and spend all our money on parts

srika

Yeah I have a feeling it would. Can you post a sample of what you have? Small size, and we can see what the possibilities are?

EuRTSX

Here's an unedited version of a photo. The back wall is supposed to be white brick.

Also, I noticed that the background is a bit blurry, I'm assuming the f5.6 I've been using is doing t hat to me. What should I change it to so that I'm gaining all detail out of an image? Background and up close?

hrj

iTrader: (1)

Ho, nice car. (sorry for a lil off topic)

srika

Well unfortunately a good portion of that brick is blown out and unrecoverable. :< White brick on a sunny day with a dark colored car is tough. The background focus is not too bad, it's hard not to get some amount of softness in the background when you have a subject up front and close like that Supra (nice one, btw). Can I show you how much I was able to recover using Lightroom?

EuRTSX

Sure, I'm doing that myself at the moment as well, but I'd like to see your fix.

EuRTSX

Well... here's the one I edited after Lightroom, I think I got some details back from the bricks.


I know, I sharpened too much, but I'm just lazy ATM.


Unedited Photo.

kyle77777

i want lightroom........

srika

well this is the best I could do. what do you think?

EuRTSX

EuRTSX

Is it just me though, is the picture a bit more grainy?

TommySalami

The guy looks weird, and the front of the car is grainy but the bricks look a lot better

srika

reload

srika

reload hehe... problem solved. lol

EuRTSX

What the, I just noticed the people are gone LOL.

srika

i know my version looks really processed - but hey, that was some seriously blown out brick.. and after doing the rest of the pic the people looked weird so they had to be removed.

EuRTSX

to srika.

srika

ha.. stop

srika

hey is TommySalami your boy?? hehe

TommySalami

That was a really good job gettin rid of them all

srika

hey that your car or something?

TommySalami

I wish
I've got this shitbox called an Acura :P

srika

whoaaaa... take it easy :P

TommySalami

I'm joking, I love my car.

srika

i know, lol.

TommySalami

=]

EuRTSX

:P We both have the same shitbox then