Cars

[spiraleyes]

I lightly retouched this in PS to increase the contrast. My favorite part about the picture is how striking the sky and clouds are. Thoughts?

[Shooter Tiff]

I really like it. I kinda with that other person wasn't standing right behind his head, but besides that I like to colors and the lines .Great shot!
What lens was this with?

[rylan]

nice BMW's i love the sky

[freedom1500]

Good angle, strong colors, love the shadows and yes, it's an amazing sky. You could go from a good shot to a great shot if you touched up that leak (or whatever) under the second car and softened up the hard shadow on the bottom left. Nice shot! (Gotta love those BMWs)

[SmartWombat]

What lens was this with?

With a sky like that ?
It's got to be the Sigma 10-22.
Judging by the distortions, I'd say 10mm

[spiraleyes]

With a sky like that ?
It's got to be the Sigma 10-22.
Judging by the distortions, I'd say 10mm

Correct!

Thanks for the comments and suggestions, I'll see what I can do about some touch ups :thumbsup:

[spiraleyes]

All right, here's a touched up copy. I took the hard shadow out of the bottom left corner, removed the water stain from the asphalt, and straightened the horizon a bit.

[spiraleyes]

Here' are a couple more from the same series. The main fault with #2 is that the sharpness fades away down the line of cars.

Thoughts?

#2



#3

[freedom1500]

Those are also nice shots... with amazing skies.
- Yes, number 2 has a shallow DOP (depth of field). You could get a deeper/longer focus by increasing your f-stop to, say, f11 or f22.
- Number 3 could use some fill-in flash to add detail in the wheels and tires. Also... I know you're trying to create a special effect by using your Sigma 10-22 but you're getting a lot of distortion which I think takes away from the gorgeous lines of that car.
- Number 1 was greatly improved by your retouching.

That's just my opinion. Let's see what others have to say.

[MB1]

I'm thinking #2 is the way to go as the sky is still great and in #1 the person standing behind the main figure is really distracting.

There aren't enough cars in #3.

[spiraleyes]

I'm thinking #2 is the way to go as the sky is still great and in #1 the person standing behind the main figure is really distracting.

There aren't enough cars in #3.

I forgot to clean up the figure that distracts in photo #1. What about this:

[Ptax]

I am very impressed with your editing skills. I don't have the software to allow this type of editing. What software did you use?

[spiraleyes]

Thank you, Ptax!

I currently use PhotoShop CS3, but most of the edits I performed can be done with older versions of PhotoShop.