amateur photo thread.

Not wanting to defeat the purpose of this thread (amateur) or disparage these photographs, but dumping pictures of badging in a very bland and cluttered area isn't interesting to a lot of us, and this is where I feel a lot of the negativity is coming from.

Automotive photography is difficult, and relies heavily on the background. Pictures with railings, people, and reflected clutter are high-quality DYSAGT posts at best. Simplify your background (cloning, low aperture lens), or liven it up and cut down on some of the reflections. After all, the purpose is to draw attention to the car.

This probably will come off as an insult, but that's why it's called constructive criticism.

Crs_D · Jan 19, 2015

A few photos of my brother-in-law's car and from the sundays rallysprint. Tell me what you think of these and visit my Flickr profile to see all of my photos!

Swagger897 · Jan 20, 2015

Finally after a week of rainy weather and clouds it was a clear night so I did some more star trails. I hope eventually when the temps stay around the 50's I'll go to a different part of the lake and get pictures with the ground.
As for now I still have no idea as to where the North Star is or how to find it, because everything I follow turns up clear at the wrong spot.

Another thing, how many of you guys have your noise filter set to off? I'm not sure if I want to wait 30 minutes after I take a 30 minute shot just to get some dots out....

daft biker · Jan 21, 2015

Swagger897
Another thing, how many of you guys have your noise filter set to off? I'm not sure if I want to wait 30 minutes after I take a 30 minute shot just to get some dots out....

Long exposure noise reduction? I tend to leave it on because I've never had a reason to switch it off and it makes my life easier in PP.

I imagine star trails would be a reason to switch it off to minimise time between exposures though. Fixed pattern noise should be removable with a single dark frame for a sequence of shots.....are you familiar with dark frame subtraction? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark-frame_subtraction)

Prefer the second shot for the deeper colours and I don't mind silhouettes framing star trail shots but not sure the trees add to the composition here. I guess they are hard to see when framing up?

Turtle · Jan 21, 2015

Noise reduction? I wish.

Swagger897 · Jan 21, 2015

@daft biker Well the shots aren't short, they are sometimes 10-30 minutes long (the top one was ten minutes and the bottom, more darker picture was 30 minutes, I had my vnd on it).

I'll have to look inside the menu again to see what the correct name for it is, but I do understand the "dark-frame" stuff as I read into it and a lot of YT videos before going out at nights...

Mike Rotch · Jan 21, 2015

Swagger897
I'll have to look inside the menu again to see what the correct name for it is, but I do understand the "dark-frame" stuff as I read into it and a lot of YT videos before going out at nights...

Consider painting trees with a torch if you do another one like the bottom exposure. I think lighter trees would work well with the deeper skies 👍

As for finding the north star, have you tried one of those Google celestial apps that you point at the sky and it shows you that constellations are going on?

Turtle · Jan 22, 2015

Very weird using a digital camera again for the first time in months. Didn't even get anything good but I was only out for twenty minutes or so and I'm just desperate to contribute to the thread again.

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Solo · Jan 22, 2015

Swagger897
Another thing, how many of you guys have your noise filter set to off? I'm not sure if I want to wait 30 minutes after I take a 30 minute shot just to get some dots out....

When Ive attempted star trails I've done it by taking a continuous series of ~30 second exposures, over a couple of hours, and then stacked them after. Check if you've an intervalometer mode on your camera to do this. Granted I've not done many but it worked pretty effectively and I didn't get noisy images.

IneedSchool · Jan 22, 2015

Swagger897 · Jan 22, 2015

Mike Rotch
Consider painting trees with a torch if you do another one like the bottom exposure. I think lighter trees would work well with the deeper skies 👍

As for finding the north star, have you tried one of those Google celestial apps that you point at the sky and it shows you that constellations are going on?

Yeah, I did that on some of my first shots before I got the cable release. The darker shot was 30 minutes long and it had my VND on it so I was unsure what was going to happen really.

I tried to remove all trees but I guess I had some sneak in there...

Solo
When Ive attempted star trails I've done it by taking a continuous series of ~30 second exposures, over a couple of hours, and then stacked them after. Check if you've an intervalometer mode on your camera to do this. Granted I've not done many but it worked pretty effectively and I didn't get noisy images.

That's what I used to do before the intravelometer, but now that I have it I just take the one shot. Probably not good for the camera though...

Now I'm starting to get into the shots where the stars stay in place but continuously rotate, so that's what I'm going to start working on next.

MyMogilev.ru · Jan 23, 2015

I do taking of photos at some dealerships in VA.

Swagger897 · Jan 23, 2015

Yeah, I'm going to have to say that's enough with the car photos with nothing else in the post. If you want to post pictures of cars, we already have threads for them...
Here: https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/thre...read-first-post.78950/page-1368#post-10385118
Here: https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/thre...good-today-event-and-showroom-edition.118094/
And here: https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/threads/sexy-mean-car-pic-thread.83417/

As a matter of fact, there's a whole subforum dedicated to cars.
So please, stop spamming posts in here three miles long with photos. If you don't even have the decency to read that, then at least put them into a spoiler, and then post other pictures.

I'm not trying to piss off anyone here, but I too have just joined the wagon that enough is enough. If any of you who haven't already posted on here and just saw "Ohh, looky there, a wall of car posts, maybe I should add to it with my collection" and neglected to look past at the ten or so pages where it was solely about amateur photography, then please don't bother to post, or come back to the thread until you've understood what has been going on...

If you go to a ralley event and all there is around are cars, find the ONE best picture you have and post it (@Crs_D I didn't mean to single you out, was just an example). Being an amateur is when you are deciding what you want to do. Some people find their passion and never leave it, others try to do everything. But spamming pictures with cars is not a hobby, passion, or is it even polite for the rest of us....

Sorry, but like I said, enough is enough...

TRLWNC7396 · Jan 24, 2015

For as much as I like cars more than most things, I have to agree. Pick a best one, then go on to anything. It can even be a car.... In a totally different environment.

Crs_D · Jan 24, 2015

Well the thread is called 'amateur photo thread' so I guess any kind of photos qualify for this thread, a photo of a car is the same as a photo of a tree or whatever else, and I posted here to hear your opinion so I could improve, like I did few months ago and you guys actually gave me some useful tips.

rono_thomas · Jan 24, 2015

I think if the OP was to be changed from "any" then this unhappiness could be avoided. For new people or part timers browsing this thread @Swagger897 your post above is likely to be missed and as most will read the OP then your going to have to put up with some of these car spam photos you dislike so much, as the thread creator has not been seen since Feb 2014.

nobuffalo · Jan 24, 2015

rono_thomas
I think if the OP was to be changed from "any" then this unhappiness could be avoided. For new people or part timers browsing this thread @Swagger897 your post above is likely to be missed and as most will read the OP then your going to have to put up with some of these car spam photos you dislike so much, as the thread creator has not been seen since Feb 2014.

This. Complaining about it isn't gonna get you guys anywhere. If you don't want to see amateur photos of cars then ask a mod to edit the op and title to reflect that.

I'd rather see a 1000 crappy pictures of cars than someone barking orders at people. @Swagger897 What makes you think you can commandeer this thread and start telling people what they can and can't post, or telling them they can only post ONE car picture from an event?

rono_thomas · Jan 24, 2015

casey_2005
This. Complaining about it isn't gonna get you guys anywhere. If you don't want to see amateur photos of cars then ask a mod to edit the op and title to reflect that.

I'd rather see a 1000 crappy pictures of cars than someone barking orders at people. @Swagger897 What makes you think you can commandeer this thread and start telling people what they can and can't post, or telling them they can only post ONE car picture from an event?

Just to be clear I wasn't complaining - I actually like the photos of cars.

otis21 · Jan 24, 2015

I finally decided to buy a DSLR, the Nikon D3200. Here, I show you some of my first experiments:

TRLWNC7396 · Jan 24, 2015

Is that last one tilt-shifted? It looks quite interesting. All of them are well framed. Nice!

Swagger897 · Jan 26, 2015

casey_2005
@Swagger897 What makes you think you can commandeer this thread and start telling people what they can and can't post, or telling them they can only post ONE car picture from an event?

I wasn't "commandeering" anything or demanding, rather simply expressing how I have had enough along with others. And because it was already (somewhat from various) agreed by others that they would respect everyone else's opinion and not flagrantly spam the thread. If you want to talk about it further, PM me., I'm not going to ruin a photo thread with words.

To be honest, it's more than just one person who has brought it up before, and like I said if you would actually go through the pages then you would understand...

However, that's not the point. We can all classify ourselves as amateurs unless you run your own photography business. That said, I don't post my GT6 photos in here, I don't post the pictures of myself in here, I don't post my historical photos in here, and I don't post my photo-shopped cars in here either, amateur or not. They go in the respective forums.

There are countless different styles of photography and if all you can do is shoot cars in showrooms, then why not post them just in the thread already made for them...

Turtle · Jan 27, 2015

TRLWNC7396
Is that last one tilt-shifted? It looks quite interesting. All of them are well framed. Nice!

I'm ninety-nine percent sure that it's just a low aperture at a relatively close distance.

GregTheStig · Jan 27, 2015

It's been several weeks since I've used my camera so I've been going back through some of my old stuff to reedit them. I took this a few years ago at the National Museum of the US Air Force / Wright Patterson AFB. It's FDR's personal Air Force One, affectionately called the Sacred Cow.

The lighting in this hanger was pretty cool. All natural light from the old hanger doors. It looked really cool on the polished aluminum of this plane and I was hoping to capture that on camera.

FDR's Sacred Cow by gregthestig, on Flickr

Edit: same with this one.

FDR's Sacred Cow - VC-54C by gregthestig, on Flickr

Mike Rotch · Jan 27, 2015

Awesome subject matter @GregTheStig - my only comment would be to watch the exposure or correct in PP

. Looks a bit under exposed (2c).

GregTheStig · Jan 27, 2015

Mike Rotch
Awesome subject matter @GregTheStig - my only comment would be to watch the exposure or correct in PP . Looks a bit under exposed (2c).

Thanks! (2c) is what I want. I took this about three years ago and maybe a few months after I got the camera, so everything was underexposed. It was even darker before going into LightZone and I could have made it brighter but it would have looked a bit off.

daft biker · Jan 27, 2015

Turtle
I'm ninety-nine percent sure that it's just a low aperture at a relatively close distance.

Same here as the plane of focus looks parallel to the film plane but either way reverse tilt is what I'd call it.....shift isn't needed for the toy-town effect.

Tilt the normal way is getting the plane of focus at the same angle as the subject......

Reverse tilt is getting the plane of focus at an angle that cuts through the subject rather than follows it.....

Above taken with my TS-E 90mm.

Swagger897 · Jan 27, 2015

GregTheStig
It's been several weeks since I've used my camera so I've been going back through some of my old stuff to reedit them. I took this a few years ago at the National Museum of the US Air Force / Wright Patterson AFB. It's FDR's personal Air Force One, affectionately called the Sacred Cow.

The lighting in this hanger was pretty cool. All natural light from the old hanger doors. It looked really cool on the polished aluminum of this plane and I was hoping to capture that on camera.

FDR's Sacred Cow by gregthestig, on Flickr

Edit: same with this one.

FDR's Sacred Cow - VC-54C by gregthestig, on Flickr

Seeing how we're both in Atlanta makes me wonder about Delta's historical hangar with the old DC-3.... Now I wanna go up to the airport..

GregTheStig · Jan 28, 2015

Swagger897
Seeing how we're both in Atlanta makes me wonder about Delta's historical hangar with the old DC-3.... Now I wanna go up to the airport..

I've wanted to as well actually. They have a 757 parked outside in one of their retro liveries so I'm sure it's only better inside.

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