CWR's photos and stitched panoramas

[CWR]

Unfortunately most of the cars I like best are standard models - it is also unfortunate is that I am not skilled in photo composition but here they are...a LOT of GT350 shots, fair warning...

 

[CWR]

Some more - I figured out some things related to taking better pics of standard cars:
1. Going to vertical format to defeat the zoom restriction for standard cars - warning: that restriction is there for a good reason; seeing how bad these 6 year old 3D models (and the low-res textures they're mapped with) look may raise your blood pressure to dangerous levels.

To fix this somewhat...
2. Use the miniature effect filter and lower the exposure to -6 or so will help with the dreaded smoke aliasing, and experiment with shutter speed as shown here:

3. Overhaul your aesthetic sense to the point where you find the 1971 Mach 1 Mustang more attractive than the 1965 GT350 Shelby Mustang, and the 2006 Jaguar XK luxury coupe as a more worthy design than the 1961 E-Type...

 

[CWR]

Fewer this time:

Full size stitched panorama here

 

[CWR]

Here's my crash in the Veyron:

...and some shots of a premium Mustang GT with a yellow matte chip:

 

[CWR]

This is nice, a private area of the internet with nobody to bother me

Here's a photostitch -

full size version here

...and regular shots - HDRI still to come. Yay.

 

[CWR]

My first attempts at HDRI images - not very good IMO:

 

[CWR]

This is a manual 2x2 photomerge with each pane a 3 exposure HDR made using techniques described in the HDRI thread:

Full version here

Unfortunately, nothing I did to the images allowed the manual exposure adjust option to appear during auto-HDR merge: the only way to affect the final output was in the order I selected the images(?!) weird...