David48's Gallery - back from the dead

[David48]

Click on a thumbnail to be taken to the post. Comments and criticism always welcome!

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[David48]

Copper MR2 GTS


'71 Plymouth Cuda@Grand Canyon


Silver RX-7


Ford GT LM Race Car@Vegas

 

[David48]

GTI Showdown




Mini Cooper@ Ice Arena *new*



Chevelle @ Twin ring


Silver Arrows

 

[Parnelli Bone]

I really like the ones of the challenger at Grand canyon!

 

[David48]

That was from the un edited photomode comp. week 30. I used the first pic on the left. Thanks!

 

[Autofreak4986]

I absolutely love the Brooklyn photo! Keep up the good work, David48.

 

[David48]

My head light retouch.
Before


After

 

[Swiss Legend]

what a difference. That looks pretty good man! I don't think that the xenon-ish lighting is overdone either.

As for your other photos, you have great composition, and decent lighting for unedited shots. 👍

 

[David48]

Thanks! 👍 That was my first time doing the lights. Still have some work to fine tune it.

 

[David48]

Okay. After some time using gimp and looking through some tutorials mixed with my own ideas, I came up with this.

I pretty much used some elements from a headlight tutorial and tutorial to make a pic half color, half black and white. I still have to mess around with the contast. It came out a little bad.

 

[David48]

So I got bored and inspired at the same time. If anyone here speeks german, feel free to tell me what it actually means. I got it from an old VW Bus ad. Enjoy!



Oh and I know these two cars would never be put together in a Manufacturer's ad seeing as how they're about 20-30 yrs. apart.

 

[djskyline701]

love the angles in your battle pics and the headlight touch pic looks great. the head lights give the pics a nite time feel. but the m3, the stair makes it look chopped.
and as for the cars that are 20- 30 yrs apart. in NA there are ad with the new 2009 tiguan and that beetle in the the lastest pics. how many years is that??

 

[waggles]

Yo've spelt Das wrong, as the second last word. I can tell you that, from my limited knowledge of german.

Otherwise, your pics are fantastic. Nice work.

 

[David48]

how many years is that??

yeah, I forgot about those commercials.

 

[David48]

So, I have a really small update.






Enjoy

 

[djskyline701]

WOw....

Some awesome pics you got there. A lot of the background looks real. I love how all these pics look. My favorite is the second one. Awesome job:tup:👍

 

[Nicknamealguem]

Great pictures indeed. The background and the car are clean and simple, but with a good composition, and great smoke on the first one. 👍

 

[David48]

WOw....

Some awesome pics you got there. A lot of the background looks real. I love how all these pics look. My favorite is the second one. Awesome job:tup:👍

Thanks! I was inspired to use softglow after seeing all of your pics.

Great pictures indeed. The background and the car are clean and simple, but with a good composition, and great smoke on the first one. 👍

On the first one, I smudged out some of the hard edges on the trees and the smoke. Then the softglow made the smoke standout. Thanks.

 

[David48]

Nothing new. I'm just moving these down from the first post.
Altezza LM Touring Car@Tsukuba



Black MR2 GTS@Tsukuba



~My first ever pic. on GT4~


BMW M5

 

[David48]

A new one. I probably spent more time editing this pic than any other pic ever. The sky was grainy and a pain to fix.

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Click here for original​

 

[RastaJew472]

This is a great gallery. I love the tone of your vw shot. Thanks for the link.

 

[Nicknamealguem]

I like the picture. The car is very clean, but the sky has many flaws, especially near and on the pillar of the bridge, where it doesn’t quite correspond.
There are a lot of ways to clean skies and to hide those weird textures. You could also just blur the whole background.

 

[David48]

I thought about blurring the entire pic, but that would just look weird, and I'm not that good at selective blurring. And the bridge got pretty hard. I know there's a lot of places wheere I used the smudge tool a little too much. Thanks for the comments. And that's just the first of many shots to come from that shoot.

 

[djskyline701]

Everything below the Verizon building looks awesome, very clean with nice reflection and, tone. Great job with that.

As for the "Selective Blurring", I don't know much people who uses a small smudge brushes for blurring huge sections ( at least that's what it seems to have happened), they use filters and stuff. But I'm sure with more practice, you will find other methods and it wont be a problem, so don't sweat it.

 

[David48]

Thanks. I'm still a noob at photo editing.

 

[David48]

Here's a little update. I got pretty bored, and its been a while since I posted in this thread. So...

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EDIT: And yes, the sky is supposed to be a weird yellow on the first one. I was trying something new.

 

[David48]

So I don't like the Prius very much, so to cover for that I've edited some Toyota Minolta 88cv pics. And here's a small preview.

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[dcalde78]

So I don't like the Prius very much, so to cover for that I've edited some Toyota Minolta 88cv pics. And here's a small preview.

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I didn't know you could get a green 88C-v
Or is it edited?

 

[David48]

Oh yeah. I forgot to explain this. I made this pic just to demonstrate some of my skills to my brother's digital design teacher, so I did some random stuff. I changed it from blue to green, and also I changed the color of the flame to blue.

 

[David48]

Here's the full Minolta update.

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