Photography Thread - Cars or anything else!

[JaCkaL829]

For some of these pictures; like the cop car, I would love it if the car was in focus and the background was blurred..when I change the aperture, the background still seems to be in focus...any suggestions?

Nice shots so far Josh, glad your liking the S2 IS I really like that pano :xyxthumbs



To blur the background set your camera to the max aperture, should be like f/2.8 or f/3.5 on your camera. That should give you the most shallow DOF. I know there are ways to do it in Photoshop too, I just don`t know how.

[Joshua312]

Thanks! I will give that a try tomorrow...Cant wait till I get my telephoto lens and my filters - Never knew photography could be so fun Im hoping I catch on fast with all the settings!



John: Since you helped me out I figured I would do a search for you; here are some links talking about faking the DOF with Adobe Photoshop

http://www.photoshopsupport.com/phot...9-dof-pro.html

and

http://www.creativemac.com/2002/07_j...s/dofpshop.htm

[White95Max]

http://autopia.org/forum/showthread.php?t=70368

[Joshua312]

Took some more pictures today:

[White95Max]

Very nice. I like that flying duck one a lot. Were these taken on Auto mode or did you change some stuff around?

[Joshua312]

Very nice. I like that flying duck one a lot. Were these taken on Auto mode or did you change some stuff around?

I finally figured out how to get all my settings; here are the settings for the flying duck picture:



Photo Effect

Off

Tv (Shutter Speed)

1/500

Av (Aperture Value)

3.5

Light Metering

Center Weighted Avg.

ISO Speed

50

Lens

6.0 - 72.0mm

Focal Length

26.8mm

Digital Zoom

None

IS Mode

On

Image Size

2048x1536

Image Quality

Fine

Flash

On

Flash Type

Built-In Flash

Red-eye

On

Shutter curtain sync

1st-curtain

White Balance

Auto

AF Mode

Continuous AF

Drive Mode

Single-frame shooting





For the duck I kept trying to walk towards him so he would fly away - but he just kept walking and quaking at me Finally we got him to fly lol - we have about 5 ducks in our pond everyday so they should make for good practice

[imported_animes2k]

I`ve posted plenty of car shots before, so let me toss up some of my other photography love

[imported_animes2k]

and some other random stuff...

[imported_animes2k]

final post - a few more cars



as seen in GRM:

[JaCkaL829]

Wow animes2k, way to make us all look inferior



Those are some great shots all around, I especially like the portraits. Would you mind sharing what lenses and light setup you used from them, or are they a No. E studios secret?



That figher looks Ken Shamrock; and the 5th model down is pretty hot

[imported_animes2k]

thanks Johnny. detailing, photography and design are my passions (not necessarily in that order).



For lighting and lenses, it`s really a mixed bag. The last model shot (gold dress gray background) was done with a set of elinchromes, I believe. The rest were shot with my Alien Bees (400, 800) with umbrellas, softboxes or spot grids. The girl with the blue shirt was shot with my home built ring light. Lenses vary in those shots from 50/1.8, 85/1.8, 28-135/3.5-5.6, 70-200/2.8...



The fighters were at the ITKF karate tournament in Davos, Switzerland in 2004 (my brother was competing) with representatives from about 40 countries. The Brazilians and Italians were the big winners for the men. Italy and Poland for the women, I believe.



Andrea IS a very attractive girl. Always a popular model

[holland_patrick]

Andrea IS a very attractive girl. Always a popular model

Johny and i will come down next time you shot her for learning perposes.... :woot:



I`ll pick you up on the way down

[JaCkaL829]

Johny and i will come down next time you shot her for learning perposes.... :woot:



I`ll pick you up on the way down

I`d be up for it Patrick, tell Andrea to bring her other attractive friends too

[SpoiledMan]

From a cruise we went on in August `04. These are all entering into port in Mazatlan Mexico.

















This one is from the tender looking back at the ship in the harbor of Cabo san Lucas.

[SpoiledMan]

Just a couple more:



Downtown Long Beach, CA from our room





A shot of the original Queen Mary looking from our ship.