New camera (Canon Digital Rebel XT)

Nothing special here, just some shots I took of my car for testing purposes. I think I'm getting the hang of this camera. The pictures were taken with the 18-55mm kit lens in manual mode....god forbid that I use program mode (automatic) for this camera... Minor touch ups were done in photoshop CS3.











My friend (bought the camera from him) gave me an earful for about 2 hours and this is what I picked up, not bad eh? Haha.

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This is just a guess, but, no one and I mean no one is eating a burger or drinking chocolate milk in that car of yours...am I right?

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Yep, none of that stuff goes in my car. If it does, it stays in the paper bag.

I take it that you got that from my clean engine bay? Haha. People think I'm crazy for even bothering with keeping the engine bay clean.

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stop trying to take over from my thread, spike
nice shots man, the first one looks kinda unreal (In a good way)

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It ain't crazy, it's awesome. If I had a car like yours, I'd keep it just as pristine.

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Thanks. I'll admit that the first shot had a little bit of photoshop magic (the sky and the blur). I took the same picture under several exposures, I attempted an HDR merge but it just didn't work out the way that I wanted it to. So I sampled the sky from that darker exposure and blurred it to cover any obvious mistakes


Haha, thanks. Too bad it won't help the depreciation rate though...Nissans are horrible with that

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yeah, blurring is the established way to hide errors, I do it in my films in an artistic way.

I think I'll be doing some HDR images soon, I was actually thinking about doing it this morning on the train into uni

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I learned the hard way that an HDR merge only works with -2, 0, +2. I tried it with -1, 0, +1 and they were too similar to provide a nice exposure range.

But you probably already knew that.

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Some nice pics there, I really like that 1st one too

I'd love to see some HDR shots I've tried making some using just a single RAW file and some software trickery, but as expected the results weren't too good - one day I'll try it properly though with +2/0/-2

my problem is trying to find a good place to do some HDR photography

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