Mondello C&C

.Longshanks.

I was over in Mondello this afternoon. There was a Porsche Club Ireland event on and i managed to get a decent spot inside the fence. I would appreciate your comments.

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wersal gummage

no. 2 is sweet. looks like it belongs in a magazine.

eeyore2502

Great pictures, number 3 would be my favourite.

challengemaster

Aha! you got in Congrats

Nice shots... you seem to have hit the sweet spot with panning anyway

Something about the first one doesn't sit well with me...I'm not sure what it is really...

Two is nice, shame its the tail end of the car...

.Longshanks.

wersal gummage wrote: »

no. 2 is sweet. looks like it belongs in a magazine.

eeyore2502 wrote: »

Great pictures, number 3 would be my favourite.

Thanks guys!

challengemaster wrote: »

Aha! you got in Congrats

Nice shots... you seem to have hit the sweet spot with panning anyway

Something about the first one doesn't sit well with me...I'm not sure what it is really...

Two is nice, shame its the tail end of the car...

There is the original of no.1 for you to compare - I cloned out a few things and then auto levels, contrast and colours. Have you any suggestions? It was very overcast at this stage


Unfortunately the pics i have of no.2 from the front on the track didn't come out as good. It didn't help that the driver only seemed to out for two laps at a time. Twice i was all set for him and then he pitted
I must have taken 200-300 panning pics and about 30-40 are useable. Its learning curve but i'm delighted with the ones i got.

challengemaster

Longshanks100 wrote: »

There is the original of no.1 for you to compare - I cloned out a few things and then auto levels, contrast and colours. Have you any suggestions? It was very overcast at this stage

Well, you did a good job of cleaning it up anyway! Let me have a think (and play) and I'll get back to you. Only thing I can think of atm is using a polarizer when taking it...

Unfortunately the pics i have of no.2 from the front on the track didn't come out as good. It didn't help that the driver only seemed to out for two laps at a time. Twice i was all set for him and then he pitted
I must have taken 200-300 panning pics and about 30-40 are useable. Its learning curve but i'm delighted with the ones i got.

Lol, I know how that can be alright....the amount of drifting pics I had that were unusable...blah... Crap happens - You did great anyway with what you got..

.Longshanks.

challengemaster wrote: »

Well, you did a good job of cleaning it up anyway! Let me have a think (and play) and I'll get back to you. Only thing I can think of atm is using a polarizer when taking it...



Lol, I know how that can be alright....the amount of drifting pics I had that were unusable...blah... Crap happens - You did great anyway with what you got..

That be great! Can email you a larger version if you want - otherwise please feel free to edit it as much as you want (so long as you explain what you did!)

challengemaster

Right... well, I went away and worked on a B&W version (got the orig size from flickr ) of the shot... It's worked to what I seem to like now...but you may or may not like the result. I'm still unsure about how to work a colour version of it... I'll have a look tomorrow Fresh mind and all that. Could start a damn blog over the crap that went on today!

Anyway, hope this isn't totally crap.... I'll pop up editing info in a bit...

AnimalRights

Jeez you trying to blind us!!

challengemaster

Alrighty then - Editing info...

First thing - Import into LR2

Lightroom edits:

• Preset: Dave on the hill 03 b&w
• Contrast to +100
• Blacks to +39
• Fill light to +56
• Exposure to -1.40
• Brightness to +61

Exported as PSD - Opened in CS4
PS CS4 edits

• Duplicate BG
• Topaz adjust (Dramatic preset) [70% opacity]
• Reveal layer mask
• Black paintbrush - Paint over the sky
• Duplicate BG layer again
• Topaz adjust (Simplify preset)
• Reveal layer mask
• Black paintbrush - Paint over everything bar sky and glass on the car
• Flatten the image - copy the layer, undo the flatten, and paste into a new layer [Didn't want to copy just one layer...]
• Apply High-pass sharpening (Radius 6.6) [65% opacity]
• Add a levels (Increase contrast 1 preset)
• Save as Jpeg (quality 12)

And...voila.

It looked like this in CS4 (I added info to the layers for ya - in brackets = opacity level)


Sounds like fun? Hope I helped anyway...


/edit: I may have also cropped it a small bit. There was a bit of the sky annoying me in the top right. (wasn't a layer so i forgot!)

challengemaster

AnimalRights wrote: »

Jeez you trying to blind us!!

Looks fine on a calibrated monitor....snap!:p

.Longshanks.

challengemaster wrote: »

Alrighty then - Editing info...

First thing - Import into LR2..............Sounds like fun? Hope I helped anyway...


/edit: I may have also cropped it a small bit. There was a bit of the sky annoying me in the top right. (wasn't a layer so i forgot!)

It was great fun alright! Will definitely try to get back soon.

Thanks for having a go at the photo and breaking it down step by step. It taught me a few things.....

You mentioned that you didn't know what a coloured version would be like.....well i don't have lightroom and im guessing from your tutorial that you mainly used lightroom to convert to B&W? Anyways, i followed you steps for photoshop and came up with this;



I think i might work a better with the tarmac also masked off in the Topaz adjust dramatic preset? Any comments / suggestions?

Edit. But then again the effect is really growing on me.

bobbly

Number 2 is my favourite

gary82

challengemaster wrote: »

Something about the first one doesn't sit well with me...I'm not sure what it is really...

Would it be that the sun is coming from behind-above so you lose the defined edge of the underside of the car in the shadow?

Number 2 is definately my favourite, I can imagine it in a magazine with text worked around it!

Fionn

oh! can i have a go at processing??

.Longshanks.

Fionn wrote: »

oh! can i have a go at processing??

Work away - the full size is on flickr. Only condition is that you describe how you did it like challengemaster above

challengemaster

gary82 wrote: »

Would it be that the sun is coming from behind-above so you lose the defined edge of the underside of the car in the shadow?

I think it's because it looks more blue-y than black... Black cars are like mirrors

KylieWyley

no.2 is an excellent panning shot.
as somebody else said, it wouldn't be out of place in a mag.

.Longshanks.

KylieWyley wrote: »

no.2 is an excellent panning shot.
as somebody else said, it wouldn't be out of place in a mag.

Thanks!
These were my first attempt at panning or shooting anything moving faster than a person running and im delighted with them!

Fionn

ok

what i did was import into PS using the RAW converter interface - adjusted white balance just selected Auto, applied some curves and clarity. cleaned up the front of the car where it had bad marks on it and dropped in a new sky (it looks a bit false) but the focus should be on the car anyway I was going to blur out the background which would achieve good focus on the car itself. did some tweaking with the distort tool to give it a slight wider angle

mighty good shot anyway well done

.Longshanks.

Fionn wrote: »

ok

what i did was import into PS using the RAW converter interface - adjusted white balance just selected Auto, applied some curves and clarity. cleaned up the front of the car where it had bad marks on it and dropped in a new sky (it looks a bit false) but the focus should be on the car anyway I was going to blur out the background which would achieve good focus on the car itself. did some tweaking with the distort tool to give it a slight wider angle

mighty good shot anyway well done

I'm not keen on the new sky you added (its looks too false) but i do like the rest of it. You've taken the blue tint out of my pic.
Thanks for describing what you did!

eirlink

Lightroom:
Temp=+37
Tint=-1
Exp=0
Recovery=100
Fill=25
blacks=0
brightness=0
cont=0
vibrancy=10

and a crop.

.Longshanks.

I had another play with this tonight to try and remove the blue tint from the car. I used a dark filter for the car and then some levels for the sky.

Original from camera again


Latest edit


Better?

challengemaster

Think you hit the nail on the head there mate! Looks much better tbh. It's a bit more true black in Fionns edit, but I don't like the dropped sky...

Fionn

yeah the more i looked at it the more fake the sky looked, but thats probably because it was fake - shoulda used some real sky!!

anyway cheers

challengemaster

Don't think changing the white balance is going to help...all that did was make the car purple!