Head2Head Competition Week 39 - Closed

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Last week's winner, 440 CHARGER, provides the theme:

Careful guys, this week location matters again!
Take any US car to any US track.
Take any Japanese car to any Japanese track.
Go forth, and photograph!

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American or Japanese tracks, no Photo Travel.

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There will be two polls at the beginning of every week.
Each poll will have a top ten for that "competitor".
These polls will last for five days.
A final poll containing the winners from both polls will last 2 days.
You must post your final entry in red letters, ex. “Final Entry”.
Previews may be used, but may be no bigger than 300*400 pixels.
You may have two HM's if a preview image is not used.
You may change your Final Entry once (make it clear you did).
Do not use an entry from a previous competition.
Only one entry may be submitted, and it must be uploaded using Imageshack.
Photoshop adjustments and filters:

Crop, Resize, Levels,
Brightness/Contrast, Hue/Saturation,
Blur filters, Noise filters, Sharpen filters
Tools:
Type tool, Sharpen tool, Burn tool,
Dodge Tool, Blur tool, Smudge tool,
Clone Stamp Tool (for removing watermark),
Adding a border/text


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October 24th

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440 CHARGER



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Need a theme idea? Click here!
 
great entries. gotta try my hand at this!
 
very nice george, an even larger incentive to produce the goods
 
Final Entry - Tom's X540 CHASER '00 @ Motegi Speedway


 
Very very nice, atlop! It looks really mean with that dark shading and colouring.

Might have to be changing my entry this week, it's really not as good as i'd hoped for :dunce:
 
i just realised my entry is shyt£. must get a new one
 
Final Entry - USA
I'm probably changing this entry, the blur can be done much better and I think the whole road would look better with the same amount of colour as the border.

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Thanks Fox Hound, your shot is also pretty cool. Floyd your entry is also very good. Good luck to all:)
 
Good one Foxhound
It has great artistic painting effect
how did you do that?
 
Thank you atlop, NTX, vr6gti72, franz and lucky_brett for the feedback.. much appreciated :) !

franz, I wasn't really aiming for an artistic look, to be honest I'm still experimenting with the Photoshop tools (half the time I use them the results are accidental.. I'm growing more familiar with them though 💡 )
The steps I used for this entry were as follows (I'm using Photoshop 6.0):

1.) 'Cropped' the image
2.) Created a 'Duplicate Layer' of the image (did this multiple times during the course of working on this entry)
3.) Adjusted the 'Brightness & Contrast'
4.) Used the 'Unsharp Mask Filter' (set it fairly high)
5.) Selected the road area and changed 'Black & White Point Levels'
6.) Adjusted the 'Saturation' slightly
7.) Used the 'Blur' and 'Smudge' tools to smooth things out
8.) Created the border
9.) Merged all the layers together and saved as .jpg

This was the original image:



I must thank gtplanet and it's members for all the tutorials and general tips and advice posted on this site, they have been a great help and inspiration 👍 .
 
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