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<em class='bbc'>Originally posted by carguy [/i]
<strong class='bbc'>Jeff - the paint on the M5 isn't nearly as bad as that shot makes it look. I think the door reflection is a better indicator. I think that particular shot just caught everything "right" to amplify the appearance of the orange peel.

The Porsche is marginally better, but it also has some. [/b]</blockquote>great. thanks for the info.

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<strong class='bbc'>Thanks for the Photoshop offer. I love Photoshop - and I'm OK with it, but I think you could learn new tings about it every day and never run out of things to learn! My son and I are planning to go to the Photoshop World conference in San Diego on March 15-17 to get some new skills. [/b]</blockquote>
wow. you're very serious about it then. it's a very deep program, and i don't claim to know everything about it. but i've been using it since i was a wee intern in 1991 and have continued to work with it through all of its iterations since then. i have advanced skills at it, so just shoot me some questions whenever they arise.

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for instance, this image i did for my portfolio. the image of the rubik's cube was completely painted in photoshop. it's not a retouched image, it was created completely digitally using paths and alpha channels. i've also had to do a number of retouches for ads of mine.

- jeff
 
I thought I might have a decent illustration of this with two photos of the same car. This first is from about 5' away max with a lens setting of about 35mm.



http://www.autopia.org/gallery/data/500/2657frontwide.jpg



This next one is from much further away with a lense setting of about 100mm.



http://www.autopia.org/gallery/data/500/2657frontnarr.jpg



You can see that the car looks quite different even though it is the same exact car. I don't know why the color looks different, but it's basically from different lighting. But look at the front bumper. It looks very rounded in the first shot, and very flat in the second. Look how much more of the fenders and side-view mirrors you can see in the second shot.



Hey, why would image code be disabled in a forum about photography? :nixweiss
 
Aurora40 said:
I thought I might have a decent illustration of this with two photos of the same car. This first is from about 5' away max with a lens setting of about 35mm.

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Great example! I wish I had a wide angle on my digital! I have a 28mm Nikkor that takes wonderful pics.
 
carguy-sounds like you took the same photography classes I did in college! Great advice, especially concerning depth of field and about how a strong horizon can effectively cut a picture in half.
 
Very nice pics and discussion. Your knowledge is formidable, indeed :xyxthumbs.



Your Krispy Kreme shot had some serious barrel distortion at the edges... that's one of my pet peeves when I take a pic with a wide angle lens :nixweiss Otherwise, the other pics are GREAT!



-Bob
 
Car in shade bright sunlight in background focus background at or near infinity instead of car will help a lot.
 

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carguy, unfortunately the orange peel is very obvious on all the BMW's of late. My 03 325i shows it also. I really hate it, especially when I see some Mercedes, there paint jobs are so perfect! If I could change one thing on my bimmer it would be the paint job. Don't get me wrong it looks nice, but compared to Mercedes, BMW has a ways to go!



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I have not seen a Mercedes paint job that doesn't have orange peel in it. I was working a Mercedes event (not as a detailer I'm sad to say but dear god did they need me) and they had the two seat 1xx,xxx vert there, black on black. There was not one panel that didn't have orange peel on it.
 
Thanks for the great thread. I am sick and tired of being in "auto" mode all the time with my digital camera...What setting would a photographer recommend a beginner should play around with first to improve their pictures?
 
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