mostly automotive - my photos

mar1u5 · Sep 14, 2009

Thanks!

First BMW picture done...

mar1u5 · Sep 14, 2009

enufced904 · Sep 14, 2009

These are all great. What do you do in your post processing to get that look?

5DManiac · Sep 15, 2009

That's his secret. Great E92 shots.

mar1u5 · Sep 15, 2009

enufced904 said:
These are all great. What do you do in your post processing to get that look?

Thank you. If it was just a simple filter or something, I'd share it with you. But I've spent years teaching myself photoshop so I can visualize how I'm seeing the image in my mind. I hope you can understand that it is not in my interrest to learn people all I know, just to have them copy my work

mar1u5 · Sep 15, 2009

A simple interior shot from the BMW. Shot with nikkor 16-85 @ 85mm:

On a side note, I feel the D300 is one of those cameras that benefits a lot from shooting in raw instead of only jpeg. When I used the rebel xti, I couldn't tell the difference between a raw and a jpeg, so I never bothered with raw. But having used only jpeg's on the D300 now for quite some time, it's been an eye opener to finally shoot in raw.

mar1u5 · Sep 15, 2009

A bit larger than the usual pictures, but I felt too much detail was lost if I shrunk it further down in size.

The car is covered in white vinyl btw. The actual color underneath is red.

mar1u5 · Sep 16, 2009

This really didn't turn out the way I wanted, so I'm not that happy with it. Also, the D300 seems to have had a brainfart or something as the quality of the raw file was worse then the other raw files. Anyway...

mar1u5 · Sep 16, 2009

enufced904 · Sep 16, 2009

mar1u5 said:
Thank you. If it was just a simple filter or something, I'd share it with you. But I've spent years teaching myself photoshop so I can visualize how I'm seeing the image in my mind. I hope you can understand that it is not in my interrest to learn people all I know, just to have them copy my work

No worries!

mar1u5 · Sep 17, 2009

concessionaires · Sep 18, 2009

wow!, you know how to take good pictures!

mar1u5 · Sep 18, 2009

Thank you! Not good to post the follow pictures after such positive feedback, but.. Here's a few quick and easy shots that's really nothing special.. I just didn't feel like editing anything "big" today (seeing as it's friday and all...) and they're mostly for the owner of the car (and anyone interested in the car..)

The D300 does well, even at iso 400/800. No noise reduction applied at all.

ISO 400 NIKKOR 35mm F1.8

ISO 800 NIKKOR 35mm F1.8

mar1u5 · Sep 22, 2009

Finally had time to do some editing again. D300 and 16-85VR, as usual:

austriker · Sep 22, 2009

wow wow wow wow wow! your work is truly amazing, i just read through all 14 pages! in fact i missed dinner and am going off to class now without food due to you =0 (im in college...) i love hte cars, love the shots! and thats awesome that you do it for free (speaking of which, are you going to be in spokane, washington, usa anytime soon lol)..

i really loved the last few bmw shots, great comp and background choices!! my favorite is the one of the beamer going down the ramp, great lines and composition!!

i love my car and i shot one shot of it once, did a hdr and did really process much after that b/c i didnot have ps at the time.. heres the link New Wallpaper, New Car on Flickr - Photo Sharing!. i cant post it because its so inferior to your shots =)

but great work, and do not feel bad about not sharing 'trade secrets'. i respect you for that, although i would love to learn haha j/k