PTL5spd's Gallery

PTL5spd · Feb 11, 2012

Welcome To PTL5spd's Gallery!

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Directory

Sets in the works

- Vintage lightweights: All of the old cars I have that weigh under 1000kg
- x2011: Me attempting to drive this ridiculous car
- Nissan Skyline/GTR: All of my Skylines/GTRs
- Camaro: then and now: the old and new Camaro
- Honda Civic: All of the civics I own
- STANCE: My stanced cars
- Rally Ready: All of my ralley ready cars
- American Muscle: My favorite american pony and sports cars

Here's a link to the gallery, I'll post a notice when I update it and give a few samples.[/CENTER]

e_dub64 · Feb 11, 2012

Not bad. 👍 Hope to see some more from you.

PTL5spd · Feb 11, 2012

Thanks! I'm still getting a hang of a few things, I think I'm going to try and do series like one car with lots of shots at different locations, tracks, etc.

But for now I'm just going to do random stuff from replays.

I've also got a quick tip for Photoshop users, this may or may not already be somewhere but oh well.

An easy way to bump contrast in rain/night shots is to duplicate the photo into another layer and set that layers mode to overlay, soft light, hard light, vivid light, or linear light, depending on the look you want. You can also adjust that layers transparency to tweak the effect. All the shots above utilized that method.

PTL5spd · Feb 11, 2012

Today I've got some shots of my ACR and Mclaren F1.

In shots 1, 3, and 4 I used a B&W filter method in Photoshop. I applied a B&W adjustment layer, clicked auto and added the tint, and adjusted the transparency down so that it acted like a semi sepia filter that would cut the color a bit and add a warm tone to the image.

PTL5spd · Feb 13, 2012

Maserati GranTurismo at Tokyo R246

DoggyB22 · Feb 13, 2012

Guess I need to get photoshop instead of using Flikr!

PTL5spd · Feb 13, 2012

DoggyB22
Guess I need to get photoshop instead of using Flikr!

I got kinda lucky being a photographer already so I've got a few tricks up my sleeve

Do you want your pictures to look more like mine or do you just want more advanced editing options? I checked out your gallery and you've got some nice shots (only looked at a handful but that ZR1 headlight shot looks sweet:tup

. Another online editing program is pixlr and photobucket uses Fotoflexer

It looks like you shoot with a high f-stop most of the time, and also add an HDR or sharpening effect in post. That's the opposite of what I usually do, mostly because I do a lot of portrait photography so that's what I do in real life. Use a super low f-stop (highest at the moment was f-4.0, lowest 1.0) so that there's obvious selective focus, and add a bit of soft focus to take away some of the super sharp unrealistic details. Then I do some photo filters and adjust them so they have just a little effect on the image. There's only one or two images so far that I've made that I really needed Photoshop for, the others I could've done on pixlr. Hope that helps!

PTL5spd · Feb 15, 2012

So my theme for the rest of this week is RM'd cars. Here are a few of my Silvia and Integra

EDIT: shots moved to RM post

matt-mtb · Feb 15, 2012

WOW you are definitely not a amateur. These pics are excellent, I may subscribe to your gallery

PTL5spd · Feb 15, 2012

matt-mtb
WOW you are definitely not a amateur. These pics are excellent, I may subscribe to your gallery

THANKS! I'm glad you think that

I've always loved cars and cameras, so I think the two put together made it a little easier for me to get the hang of. I still think I've got a lot to learn and try out, different compositions, editing styles, lots of stuff. You've got some nice shots yourself, Hopefully I can end up with a following like you someday!

20832 · Feb 15, 2012

Really does look quite good.
Very good in fact!

PTL5spd · Feb 17, 2012

20832
Really does look quite good.
Very good in fact!

Thanks a lot I really appreciate it!

PTL5spd · Feb 17, 2012

UPDATE:

I have now created an "index" page in place of my first post. I am going to try and keep the sets dense so I don't have a HUGE directory.

I'll be posting another RM set tonight, and probably another one tomorrow.

PTL5spd · Feb 19, 2012

Race Modified:FINISHED

DoggyB22 · Feb 19, 2012

PTL5spd
I got kinda lucky being a photographer already so I've got a few tricks up my sleeve

Do you want your pictures to look more like mine or do you just want more advanced editing options? I checked out your gallery and you've got some nice shots (only looked at a handful but that ZR1 headlight shot looks sweet:tup. Another online editing program is pixlr and photobucket uses Fotoflexer

It looks like you shoot with a high f-stop most of the time, and also add an HDR or sharpening effect in post. That's the opposite of what I usually do, mostly because I do a lot of portrait photography so that's what I do in real life. Use a super low f-stop (highest at the moment was f-4.0, lowest 1.0) so that there's obvious selective focus, and add a bit of soft focus to take away some of the super sharp unrealistic details. Then I do some photo filters and adjust them so they have just a little effect on the image. There's only one or two images so far that I've made that I really needed Photoshop for, the others I could've done on pixlr. Hope that helps!

For sure thanks for the info! Ill try that on my next photo shoot. & your last set is sweet. The 69 Camaro Z28 :drool:

PTL5spd · Feb 20, 2012

DoggyB22
For sure thanks for the info! Ill try that on my next photo shoot. & your last set is sweet. The 69 Camaro Z28

No problem! It's all about style and how you want things to look, it's always good to experiment and try different things!

I've also added a few more sets to my RM gallery!

PTL5spd · Feb 26, 2012

Race Modified Gallery Finished

Next up: Vintage lightweights

BkS · Feb 26, 2012

So your a professional portrait photographer not using Flickr... :scared:

That's a first. No offence intended there btw, but I would've thought you being a pro, you would have known that Flickr's compression is much better than anything else out there?

Nice work on these sets though. They look pretty awesome 👍

PTL5spd · Feb 26, 2012

BkS
So your a professional portrait photographer not using Flickr... That's a first. No offence intended there btw, but I would've thought you being a pro, you would have known that Flickr's compression is much better than anything else out there?

Nice work on these sets though. They look pretty awesome 👍

I'm no pro, Ive only been doing it for about 3-4 years. I use Flickr for my photography and photobucket for other stuff (like this) because there's no file limit. I don't wanna have to pay for pro just cause I've taken too many GT5 photos

I'm glad you like my stuff! Not the best on earth I know but Im really enjoying it!

PTL5spd · Feb 29, 2012

Vintage Lightweights:in the works

BkS · Feb 29, 2012

Nice shots but there is one thing that really bugs me. The size of your photos. >.< Could you please resize them please so they are maximum of 640 (in any direction way). It helps load them faster, saves people bandwidth and best of all, easier to look at. :dopey:

PTL5spd · Feb 29, 2012

BkS
Nice shots but there is one thing that really bugs me. The size of your photos. >.< Could you please resize them please so they are maximum of 640 (in any direction way). It helps load them faster, saves people bandwidth and best of all, easier to look at.

Done! I was actually working on that just after I uploaded my last set, I noticed how hard it was to load the page and have to wait for all the photos to pop up and re size themselves. My original idea was to upload high res so people could see the detail, but I didn't plan on having so many photos.

Thanks for the comment, glad you like them!

PTL5spd · Aug 28, 2012

Been gone for a while and thinking about getting back into the GT5 photography stuff. here's a few new shots!

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