Head2Head Competition Week 56 - Closed

[SlipZtrEm]

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Last week's winner, Beerzgood, provides the theme:

Basically, it's day shots vs night shots, but with a twist.
Think of a racing driver...
He races during the day and drives his own car during
the night (like a geek or speeding, doesn't matter).
That's what I want to see.
Day shots have to be of a racing car,
night shots must be of a road car.

For DAY shots, race cars only.
For NIGHT shots, road cars (no tuners or concepts).

Real Circuits for DAY, Night City tracks for NIGHT.

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).
Edit out your original entry, or make it clear it is no longer "Final".
Do not use an entry from a previous competition.
Only one entry may be submitted, and it must be uploaded using Imageshack.
Photo-editing adjustments allowed:
Brightness/Contrast/Levels
Colour/Saturation adjustments
Cropping/Resizing
Blur/Sharpen adjustments
Smoothing/Smudging adjustments
Dodge/Burn
Noise filters
Gradients
Add Text/Border
Clone Stamp (for watermark removal only)

October 13th

Beerzgood

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[NTX]

Final Entry​

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[alexwrc]

Time to introduce a different concept.

Final entry



Salu2.alexwrc​

 

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alex - 👍^2

[edit - im surprised tunner cars arent allowed. if i raced for a living, i wouldnt leave my car stock.]

 

[franz]

Very good Alex ... love the style and the depth of the sky colour

 

[Beerz]

[edit - im surprised tunner cars arent allowed. if i raced for a living, i wouldnt leave my car stock.]

I thought of that too, [es].
The reason was because I didn't want to get specific as to which tuner cars were allowed since some of them look just like race cars in every aspect.
I agree on the tuning part.
But you can always tune a road car, within GT4's limited options for visual changes...

 

[Tangled Web]

Amazing shot alex.

 

[[empty space]]

I thought of that too, [es].
The reason was because I didn't want to get specific as to which tuner cars were allowed since some of them look just like race cars in every aspect.
I agree on the tuning part.
But you can always tune a road car, within GT4's limited options for visual changes...

understood 👍 specially considering cars like the s2000 gt1 and the re rx7 is a race car ... so, i took a nice gold car to paris at night and, bah, the night sky sucks but, i still came up with this ...

Final Entry - Road

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i took a bunch of pics hopping to be able to use one for the un-edited comp, but, theyre all too dark but, i hope itll interest the resident AM peoples

 

[Loon]

Final Entry


The preview doesn't do this shot justice, please click it to enlarge it.​

 

[Beerz]

Now that's awesome! 👍

too bad about the tarmac, needed some noise roughness to be better.
But the cars look damn impressive, awesome angle and work on this one!

 

[Carbon_77]

Wow everybody! These are all great! 👍

 

[alexwrc]

WTF Loon!!!

PS: WTF again!!!

Salu2.alexwrc

 

[Loon]

Now that's awesome! 👍

too bad about the tarmac, needed some noise roughness to be better.
But the cars look damn impressive, awesome angle and work on this one!

Yeah I thought about that when I had gotten to the end, but I had already merged all my layers and I just said the hell with it.

WTF Loon!!!

PS: WTF again!!!

Salu2.alexwrc

LOL, thanks Alex. Ever since I got my graphics tablet editing my shots have become a lot easier.

 

[Beerz]

What's a graphics tablet?

 

[Loon]

This...

 

[[empty space]]

what? all the hip kids have a tablet ... specially the anime/artist kids

wikipedia explains it all-ish

 

[Beerz]

Oh man, I'm so jealous...

I always wanted to get my hands on one of those! How much did you paid for it?
I already searched on computer stores, but so far haven't even seen one for sale around here...

How's the handling? Is it precise?

[es] - thanks for the extra input, already bookmarked the page.

 

[Loon]

I got mine of of eBay, I was the only person to bid on it so I only paid like 9.95 for it, but the guy who had it lives in California so he charged 20$ for shipped. So in the end I'm out 30 dollars. I got brand new too.

It takes a little while to get used to how it moves because you have to hover the pen just above the pad to use it as a mouse. It makes life easier when outlining selections of a car or what not, and it's pressure sensitive so the harder or lighter you press the more or less smudge/blur or whatever else you get. It also makes following body lines and curves easier because its like drawing with a pencil.

All in all I'm very happy with it.

Oh, and its got hotkeys all around the edge of it, like: open, new, cut, back, forward, copy, find, desktop, page up/down, redo, undo, office word, outlook, internet, and 2 you can make whatever you want. I made mine LimeWire and GIMP. They it a little more convenient because they're right there.

 

[jgda9rs]

very nice Loon!!!!!!

 

[alexwrc]

I own this big **** :http://www.trust.com/_images/products/500/14070-3.jpg

It's not a bad tablet, not good too, but my item is plenty of issues and after 1 year the main dealer (mundopc.es) haven't fixed anything, it sucks.

Wacon is the ultimate machine. I'd love to try the angle function they have got.

Salu2.alexwrc

 

[Brock5000]

Final Entry - Night



SLR @ Opera Paris


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[Beerz]

What's the active area's size on yours, alex?

Brock - return of the killer black SLR's hood, i see. :tup:

 

[Brock5000]

Yep, and I made sure it had an extra special shine!

 

[Beerz]

Nice

They even made the car look better overall, it didn't look like the SLR at all before the wash, it kinda... hmmm... grew a bit...

 

[Brock5000]

Yes amazing results, I highly recommend this car wash team!

And to think it was just a C230 Kompressor before the wash!

 

[Beerz]

You gotta get me their phone number!

 

[Loon]

What's the active area's size on yours, alex?

Yeah, it looks huge, mines only got a 4X3 area.

 

[franz]

I got my gf a HP tablet laptop, but its touchscreen sensitivity totally sucks even for normal usage, so hell with it

 

[ALPHA]

FINAL ENTRY



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I remember when I tried to use a friends tablet (4×6 Wacom) I failed pretty badly.

Would love to have a proper go though.

 

[Beerz]

ALPHA - was is because of the tablet itself or just because your lack of experience with it?

btw, great shot. Nice to see you here again. 👍