Automotive Photography Competition 21 CLOSED

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Week 21​

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Syntax error - 3 Votes
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Well done Syntax error.


Theme for week 21
Monochrome - photograph to be taken in black & white (if this is not an avalible feature on your camera, you may use Adobe Photoshop to convert - Strictly just by pressing Ctrl, Shift and U)
If you do not have a program to perform this, you may send me a PM with your photograph, and I will convert to monochrome with the above technique and then upload into my Photobucket account - I have seperate folders for the competitions.

The rules:

-Each competition's voting will end on a Friday at 6pm GMT. This gives chance for people to engage in religious activities, rest and time with family on Sunday. (Deadlines near bottom).

-Entries must be in by 5pm on Tuesday 20th January, no exceptions. If your work is not submitted by then then you must wait until the next week.

-All entered photographs must have been taken between January 2008 and the present day.

-Enteries must be posted as a thumbnail without extending 400pixels on the longest side. Full sized images may be no larger than 900pixels on their longest side.

-You must only submit your own photographs, do not post anyone else's wheter from the internet or if someone you know took the photograph.

-Any watermark you place on your image must be in any corner of the image as long as it does not obstruct the subject of the image.

-Only one photograph per person. You can not change your entry.

-You must not vote for your own photograph when the Poll is up. Only vote for a photograph taken by another enterant.

-The photograph must be submitted with the following information: Subject, Location, Date and Camera used.

-Levels, Curves, Colour Balance, Brightness/Contrast, Hue/Saturation, cropping, or anything else capable in the development process or with filters and common special lenses are allowed to use in Photoshop or other image editing softwares. Other adjustments and effects are not allowed to be used in your picture.

-No HDRI shots allowed



For competition #21 entries must be in by Tuesday 27th January at 6pm GMT.
The poll will be up at 6:30pm GMT on this day and will end on Friday 30th January at 6:30pm GMT.


I will need someone to voulenteer to take my place at running the competition if I am going to be away. Please PM me if you will be able to fill in for me at any given date - I spend a lot of time with my Grandfather and he dosn't usually ask me to stop with him until the last minute which is usually 2 days notice. If this occurs I will need someone to run the competition whilst I am away.

Thank you for taking time to read this and I will hope to get a good number of entries on Tuesday 27th January.


My entry:
 
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Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren 722 Edition

Mosport Raceway, Ontario, Canada

June 21, 2008

Canon Rebel XTi.


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Black and white photography is my favourite kind. I enjoy it the most, hence it was so difficult to choose what to enter. I have so many more to show.
 

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Aston Martin V8 Vantage
Hampshire, UK
January 2009
Nikon D90​
 
Very nice shots from both of you.

LongbowX - I always feel B&W shots have to be taken better because it is harder to hide flaws.
 
Now I'm not a huge fan of black and white photographs unless it's something old, and I don't really believe it suits anything other than old cars. However, I don't have many pictures of old cars, so I'm going to use a shot from June 2008 at an Audi dealer in Northampton. This was back in the day when I didn't have a SLR and had a B&W mode built into the camera so here goes.



Audi R8
Fuji Finepix F40fd
Northampton Audi
June 2008
 
This was back in the day when I didn't have a SLR and had a B&W mode built into the camera so here goes.

Just a sidenote, as this is the second time that it's been mentioned in this thread. You shouldn't shoot on-camera B&W, rather desaturate the tones in post. You've got more freedom with the colour levels, although flattened out, when you've got all the channels from the original shot.
 
And you shouldn't use CTRL+SHIFT+U when desaturating photos in Photoshop either. Totally kills the tonality of the photo.
 
Well by desaturating I mean converting photographs into mono... Photos converted to black and white that way just lack any impact, they aren't black and white, they're more like several shades of grey mixed together unappealingly. The beauty of using black and white is the way it highlights a scene's lighting, and simply pressing three buttons doesn't do it justice. You have to tone each channel to give the photo the right impact, contrast, mood and texture. Using ctrl+shift+u is just lazy, you might as well use the camera's B&W mode.
 
Just a sidenote, as this is the second time that it's been mentioned in this thread. You shouldn't shoot on-camera B&W, rather desaturate the tones in post. You've got more freedom with the colour levels, although flattened out, when you've got all the channels from the original shot.

I agree, I'd never shoot B&W mode now. To be honest as well as F1GTR said using Hue/Saturation to make it black and white isn't the way I'd do it now anyway. I'd use Channel Mixer on Monochrome as it gives you more control of each kind of bit.
 
Now I'm not a huge fan of black and white photographs unless it's something old, and I don't really believe it suits anything other than old cars.

I would have to disagree with that, but to each his own. Black & white, in my view, gives better expression than most colour can. It adds drama where there might be none. Any car can be shot this way.

This is strictly my opinion, though.
 
final entry



Renault Clio ´03
Vila Nova de Gaia - Portugal
January 09
Sony DSC-H3
 
yay BW.



Patina'd 1956 Ford Fairlane that has not moved in ten years, used to be a hot rod back in the day or so it seems.

Mexico City, Mexico
July 2008.
scanned from a film shot (:
 
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