2nd Annual "Turkey Run" for charity, by www.exoticsrally.com
 

NEW EDITS IN POST 29 AND FORWARD!

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not bad. your shots seem to be a bit on the dark side though. were those taken with the 30D?

Yea..they still need a bit of editing work, and I've got more to process. Generally hate shooting at car events because there is so much **** in the way that it ruins the shots...cars, people, trees, other crap..I prefer shooting at an off-site location so much more

Get your edit game on.

Look P+S status.

Why post before you edit.

I did edit them...I'm looking for critique so I can edit them further based on that, like Matt said, they seem dark so I'll brighten them, etc.

Here's a hint.

If you hit auto contrast, and the image changes dramatically....you have no idea how to edit.

Come on read your histograms, that's sloppy.

they are dark. the last pic drives me insane. i cant stand half'ed cars. its like putting a lambo on the grass to shoot it. grrrrrrr.

id like to see some shadow/highlight editing.

Honestly i feel like they have composition but thats just me. Thats first and foremost worry about other stuff later.

besides looking dark your white balance looks off in a lot of them, they look blue. did you set your custom white balance before shooting?

I did but I shot them in RAW+L so I can still change them a lot, just wanted to get some advice on what to do exactly because as James said, my editing game sucks

Why would you shoot on raw+jpg????

So I wouldnt have to open up every single RAW file in PS to see what it was

See they make this program called bridge or lightroom or aperature or anything that can view raw files without opening them in ps.

<---noob

I don't think Mustangs are considered exotics, but unless thats a Shelby GT500, then its different. Nice pics btw.

That Mustang is Krazy House Kustoms' Saleen

a gt500 is not rare! a 2000 cobra R is exotic to a mustang! The saleens are pretty rare also!

Next thing you should buy is a hotshoe flash. Most of the shots are bland in color. Post processing can only do so much. Artificial lighting will allow you to expose the vehicle and add saturation while keeping the sky properly exposed.

try this too if u don't have bridge or lightroom. i dont know what os you have but i use this on my windows xp whenever i shoot raw which is really rare, but it makes them show up as thumbnails raw thumbnail viewer

I agree to a point but also flashes can be used so wrong when they are mounted directly on the camera.

He can't work the camera to begin with, throwing a flash into the mix wouldn't do him any good at the moment.

Next thing you should buy is some books on your camera and Photoshop to read while you poop!

It's so easy, a caveman can do it.

Easy to mess up or easy to use or both haha.

Well then, that explains it. :mrgreen:

I didn't say it wasn't rare, I said it wasn't an exotic, but now that its a Saleen, its a different story.

It raped a GTR on the highway!

i found it easy. it was harder trying to get the 800 to control the 600 lol. i actually had to read the book for that.

I read the book for all my camera stuff.

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Will post more as I work them tomorrow.

8 got my vote, I just hate the blown out sky. Other then that I like these edits much more.

Im actually wondering how to get rid of that...it was a hand-held exposure. Can I do sometihng like this?

Underexpose 1 raw file and use the sky from that in the proper edit?

^^^u can do that if you wanted i guess. just load the underexposed pic in to the other pic on a new layer and uses masks to bring it through to show

and the edits look better but 4 still looks too blue to me

FLash + CPL (or graduated ND)

i like rice is right, they will both help a lot. those shots i posted in the random picture thread of that truck yesterday used both the cpl plus a cokin graduated nd filter on top

yeah they beat me to it but they said it all.

alex, those new edits are MUCH better.