Variety shots - mazda787's gallery
- Thread starter mazda787
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- New Zealand
- nux-customz
Great work mate!👍 I like the toning and angles in this set. Shots #2 & #7 are my favs from this update.
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- Midnight City
- RetroGiant
- TheRetroGiant
Every pic is so damn good. Great update!
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- South West
- KAYTEAM73
WOAH!!!! The 787B set + a Bentley for good measure - gorgeous!!!
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- Champagne
- Heilagr
When watching your pictures, I say, this one is nice, oh and this one is brilliant, damn this one is smartly edited, oh yeah and this one is shiny as a diamond, oh wow and the following is done with a fine camera angle, well well, this is my humbe way to tell you that I like everything. Bravo Mazda 
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- Midnight City
- RetroGiant
- TheRetroGiant
Your exposures and lighting is so crisp and clean in all your shots. Makes them very realistic. No banding or anything. I cannot for the life of me get away from banding when raising shadows and then don't get me started on the skies. The second I adjust any shadows or contrast it's banding central and renders the shots unusable. What's your secret on lighting? Is your EV high in game and then lowered in photoshop, or reversed? Multiple shots stacked? What's your workflow like in PS/Lightroom? I need some tips lol!! You can pm me if you don't want to post here.
I'm just enamored and honestly frustrated I can't even begin to get my shots looking like yours. Could you post a before and after shot?
I'm just enamored and honestly frustrated I can't even begin to get my shots looking like yours. Could you post a before and after shot?
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- New Zealand
- nux-customz
The Laguna Seca shots are fantastic! Love those beautiful blue skies!👍
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- Virginia
- bab2390
Thanks for the replies guys, really appreciate them. I was sick for a while last week and was out of the loop for a bit. But I have some shots today 
Thank you @RetroGiant ! I don't know what you are talking about in the bolded part because your shots are fantastic! I make use of the blur and gradient tool in photoshop to handle banding / enhance lighting. I posted a video last year of the process I use in PS :
and what before/after do you want to see? Basically that is still the same process I use for gt6, however I try to limit my time to about 6 or 7 minutes of editing per picture so as to not get too carried away with editing.
Thank you @RetroGiant ! I don't know what you are talking about in the bolded part because your shots are fantastic! I make use of the blur and gradient tool in photoshop to handle banding / enhance lighting. I posted a video last year of the process I use in PS :
and what before/after do you want to see? Basically that is still the same process I use for gt6, however I try to limit my time to about 6 or 7 minutes of editing per picture so as to not get too carried away with editing.
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- Midnight City
- RetroGiant
- TheRetroGiant
You should rename your gallery the realistic photo thread. Good lord. Thank you for that video. I love seeing stuff like that. I wouldn't mind seeing one of the Toyota shots before edit. Your new Toyota shots that normally would look dark and bold you pulled so much detail out of them and zero banding. Do you even have to manually go in and clean banding and shadow blockiness? I didn't even see any in your video example although it didn't look like it may have had much to begin with. That's what impresses me so much. Super inspirational work! Absolute in awe.
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- Paris
- Kodje75
As always when you post something new in your gallery it's just a treasures flood, and entering here like going in Smaug's lair 
I really like all your last pics, but I find the FT1 ones just superb, I love the GTO shot and I totally love the GTB wheel shot
Mnetion to the very good lightning of your El Camino set !
I really like all your last pics, but I find the FT1 ones just superb, I love the GTO shot and I totally love the GTB wheel shot
Mnetion to the very good lightning of your El Camino set !
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- Virginia
- bab2390
Thank you very much for the positive feedback, glad you guys enjoyed the update !
Thank you for the comment and I'm glad the video helped. The only shot I had issue with in the Toyota set was the one of the close up of the front, which I fixed using blur. All the others I followed pretty much what I did in the video but I skipped a few steps like the noise.
The others are on my Flickr 👍
You should rename your gallery the realistic photo thread. Good lord. Thank you for that video. I love seeing stuff like that. I wouldn't mind seeing one of the Toyota shots before edit. Your new Toyota shots that normally would look dark and bold you pulled so much detail out of them and zero banding. Do you even have to manually go in and clean banding and shadow blockiness? I didn't even see any in your video example although it didn't look like it may have had much to begin with. That's what impresses me so much. Super inspirational work! Absolute in awe.
Thank you for the comment and I'm glad the video helped. The only shot I had issue with in the Toyota set was the one of the close up of the front, which I fixed using blur. All the others I followed pretty much what I did in the video but I skipped a few steps like the noise.
The others are on my Flickr 👍
