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Cars by Model Type => 3rd generation RX-7's => Topic started by: D2BBA on December 08, 2008, 03:37:52 PM

Title: D2BBA\'s \'7 - Night Shots
Post by: D2BBA on December 08, 2008, 03:37:52 PM
Alright folks,

See what you think of these…

My mate has just bought a digi SLR and is trying to get to grips with it.  I thought I’d give him some practise and suggested a couple of night shots of the car.  We will be trying a few different venues next time, and I’ll actually clean the car too!

Just need a clean-up on photoshop to get rid of the non-required lens-flairs and should be getting there.

Chris

p.s. apologies for the file size ;)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v479/D2BBA/IMG_7314.jpg)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v479/D2BBA/IMG_7334.jpg)
Title: D2BBA\'s \'7 - Night Shots
Post by: Kieron on December 08, 2008, 03:47:07 PM
Was saying to Ada yesterday how much I love this car :mmmm
Title: D2BBA\'s \'7 - Night Shots
Post by: Ada7 on December 08, 2008, 03:50:42 PM
Yep he was indeed. Nice pictures Chris. :Thumbs-up

Adam
Title: D2BBA\'s \'7 - Night Shots
Post by: D2BBA on December 08, 2008, 03:54:24 PM
Ooo me ears were burning, lol

Cheers for the thumbs up lads.  Its just nice to get the car out for a bit :)

Chris
Title: D2BBA\'s \'7 - Night Shots
Post by: fil_auto on December 08, 2008, 03:56:28 PM
pretty good Chris and no need to apologise for the filesize as the pics aren\'t that big!
Car looks great as always.... although I think day, compared to night shots do it far more justice! #;o)
Title: D2BBA\'s \'7 - Night Shots
Post by: Dan Norton on December 08, 2008, 04:19:36 PM
Looking good chris.....what camera has he bought?
Title: D2BBA\'s \'7 - Night Shots
Post by: ash on December 08, 2008, 04:19:50 PM
Thats 1st pic is ace, looks like it should be in car mag.
Title: D2BBA\'s \'7 - Night Shots
Post by: D2BBA on December 08, 2008, 04:36:20 PM
Dan - Erm, good point, I better find out bud! ;)

Ash - Cheers bud.  Its a bit tame tho, they normally insist on hanging out the back end of a car doing 50mph, lol

Chris
Title: D2BBA\'s \'7 - Night Shots
Post by: D2BBA on December 08, 2008, 05:09:57 PM
Dan,

The word on the street is its a Cannon 400D and he was using an 18x55mm lens with tripod and (home made cable release) :)

Chris
Title: D2BBA\'s \'7 - Night Shots
Post by: karl_tate on December 08, 2008, 05:26:48 PM
looking good chris, forgot how good this car looks, havent seen pics of it for ages.
Title: D2BBA\'s \'7 - Night Shots
Post by: Will66 on December 08, 2008, 05:44:08 PM
That\'s a nice shot!  What is it with moody street light shots?  They look the mutts nuts!
Title: D2BBA\'s \'7 - Night Shots
Post by: robedwards99 on December 08, 2008, 08:22:28 PM
Had a quick play with the first image. Hope you like the results. :)

(http://img385.imageshack.us/img385/7131/img7314xm3.jpg)

(http://img211.imageshack.us/img211/7827/brbr1ev5.jpg)

(http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/3185/set01hdr1frombrbr1hp6.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)

(http://img516.imageshack.us/img516/766/set02hdr1fromimg73141ep1.jpg)
Title: D2BBA\'s \'7 - Night Shots
Post by: Nik da Greek on December 08, 2008, 09:31:14 PM
Looks awesome, Chris. Those wheels suit it so much better than the ones that were on before. Excellent shots, dude
Title: D2BBA\'s \'7 - Night Shots
Post by: Hayward North on December 08, 2008, 09:41:41 PM
Fantastic images chris, Superb car :D what rebuild did you end up having ? did you stick to stock or have it ported ?
Title: D2BBA\'s \'7 - Night Shots
Post by: Dan Norton on December 08, 2008, 10:09:06 PM
Quote from: D2BBA;563460Dan,

The word on the street is its a Cannon 400D and he was using an 18x55mm lens with tripod and (home made cable release) :)

Chris
Cheers buddy :Thumbsup!....i was hoping you was gonna say that, i fancy one of those myself!
Title: D2BBA\'s \'7 - Night Shots
Post by: gsb876 on December 08, 2008, 10:32:19 PM
Pics look cool bud :driving
Title: D2BBA\'s \'7 - Night Shots
Post by: L18M on December 08, 2008, 11:53:16 PM
nice pics.. the glare you get from the top right corner.. next time if you take a pic like that then you can get rid of the glare (unwanted light) by placing ur hand towards that corner of the lens thus putting the lens in shadow so wont glare up like that. can do the same in sunlight if u get my drift..?
Title: D2BBA\'s \'7 - Night Shots
Post by: D2BBA on December 09, 2008, 08:18:27 AM
Quote from: robedwards99;563528Had a quick play with the first image. Hope you like the results. :)
     

Cheers bud!

They look great, and the last one looks class.  I\'ll add them to my folder.

Cheers :)
Title: D2BBA\'s \'7 - Night Shots
Post by: D2BBA on December 09, 2008, 08:20:29 AM
Quote from: steve garbutt;563557Fantastic images chris, Superb car :D what rebuild did you end up having ? did you stick to stock or have it ported ?

Hi Steve,

Just went for the standard re-build in the end, she\'s quick enough for me most of the time with just bolt-ons ;)

Boost issue to sort before the weather warms, then I can play again!

Chris
Title: D2BBA\'s \'7 - Night Shots
Post by: D2BBA on December 09, 2008, 08:22:40 AM
Quote from: BBCFC;563626nice pics.. the glare you get from the top right corner.. next time if you take a pic like that then you can get rid of the glare (unwanted light) by placing ur hand towards that corner of the lens thus putting the lens in shadow so wont glare up like that. can do the same in sunlight if u get my drift..?

Ta for the tip bud, ive seen our works photographer use a shroud around the lense and even a piece of graded filter glass for really difficult light.

Its alot more involved than I thought!!!  I may end up joining Dan and getting an SLR myself tho...

Group buy FTW, lol!

Chris
Title: D2BBA\'s \'7 - Night Shots
Post by: neil_jdmr on December 10, 2008, 10:53:01 PM
Looking lovely chris and still yet to see your car in the flesh, Gutted i cannot get to jne on sunday.
Title: D2BBA\'s \'7 - Night Shots
Post by: Dan Norton on December 10, 2008, 11:44:20 PM
Quote from: D2BBA;563667Ta for the tip bud, ive seen our works photographer use a shroud around the lense and even a piece of graded filter glass for really difficult light.

Its alot more involved than I thought!!!  I may end up joining Dan and getting an SLR myself tho...

Group buy FTW, lol!

Chris

thats is a good tip for sure!!!

i bought a Sony H2 "SLR Like", just over a year ago......its a good camera that supposed to be like an SLR to use....but easier.
Ive found that its too big for holiday / day use....and not good enough for SLR type work :spank....i wanted a camera that could do everything.

The price of digi SLR\'s have gone down dramatically....and those Canons get brilliant reveiws!!
Title: D2BBA\'s \'7 - Night Shots
Post by: Dan Norton on December 10, 2008, 11:53:31 PM
For a fancy point and shoot with priority settings etc, it takes an ok picture for whats a really old camera.

(http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j72/dan_norton/Rotorstock%202007/DSC00212.jpg)

(http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j72/dan_norton/Rotorstock%202007/DSC00158.jpg)

(http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j72/dan_norton/Rotorstock%202007/DSC00172.jpg)

But for fast moving stuff....even with the shutter priority on slow speed to create an impression of speed.....it seems to take and age from the moment you click the button to when it actually takes the photo as it auto focuses!
Title: D2BBA\'s \'7 - Night Shots
Post by: D2BBA on December 11, 2008, 08:21:18 AM
Ooo, cheers for the piccy guv, another one for the collection!

Some good work there, liking the angles of the different shots too :)

Chris
Title: D2BBA\'s \'7 - Night Shots
Post by: ENVYD on December 11, 2008, 10:35:50 AM
looks spot on mate! would be good to get a shoot with us all togeather like! even tho mine is sort of stock lol!
 
edit: this first pick would look mint if he used a long exposure while a car drove by or something, even tho that road never gets any cars there lol!
Title: D2BBA\'s \'7 - Night Shots
Post by: D2BBA on December 11, 2008, 04:57:41 PM
Alrighty Steve!,

Believe it or not thats what we were going for, only prob is we had about 2 cars pass our way all night, lol!

Yup, we should get a night-time shoot going for all us NE types.  I\'ll look for some spots for the shots in Newcastle(ish).

Youre car is spot on bud, dont worry, itll look cracking :)

Chris
Title: D2BBA\'s \'7 - Night Shots
Post by: Steve Burnett on December 19, 2008, 07:03:04 PM
Not changed much over the years eh! Just looking at a picture of it when it was yellow up in Edinburgh about 4 years ago.
Title: D2BBA\'s \'7 - Night Shots
Post by: karl_tate on December 19, 2008, 07:08:03 PM
get them up :Thumbs-up :D
Title: D2BBA\'s \'7 - Night Shots
Post by: D2BBA on December 19, 2008, 08:30:44 PM
Fair \'nuff bud...

Backto the old skool, back to the old skool....:wave:King
Title: D2BBA\'s \'7 - Night Shots
Post by: ENVYD on December 19, 2008, 09:15:09 PM
i have to say that the car looks much better now mate!
Title: D2BBA\'s \'7 - Night Shots
Post by: D2BBA on December 19, 2008, 10:07:19 PM
Cheers bud:Thumbsup!

Here\'s those cleaned up shots:

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v479/D2BBA/CAR1.jpg)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v479/D2BBA/CAR2-1.jpg)

:burnout
Title: D2BBA\'s \'7 - Night Shots
Post by: karl_tate on December 19, 2008, 10:58:21 PM
its a toally different car :yes

cleaned up shots look sweet as well mate.
Title: D2BBA\'s \'7 - Night Shots
Post by: Nik da Greek on December 20, 2008, 02:23:59 PM
+1 for much better looking now! Nothing against yellow Rexes per se, but it did look very yellow before!
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