C5 and Darkness... Image Heavy.
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why does your car always look so good and perfect in all your pictures! Love it! Maybe its your great photography skills but sometimes you see people take pictures of the C5 and well they just sort of look "blehh" especially on a weird angle..keep it up though looking good....and i love love those rims...what kind are they?
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St. Jude Donor '12-'13-'14
why does your car always look so good and perfect in all your pictures! Love it! Maybe its your great photography skills but sometimes you see people take pictures of the C5 and well they just sort of look "blehh" especially on a weird angle..keep it up though looking good....and i love love those rims...what kind are they?
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St. Jude Donor '11-'12-'13-'14-'15
Perfect time of day for photography! Your shots are always perfect Bill! at least the ones you post... 
Do you set a custom White Balance prior to each shoot??? Your shots always seem to pop and the colors are perfect!
Do you set a custom White Balance prior to each shoot??? Your shots always seem to pop and the colors are perfect!
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Your car always looks good, Bill. You took some really good shots of it.
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I have tried setting a custom white balance. I now shoot in raw so I can correct white balance, exposure and such. I haven't shot in jpg in years....
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St. Jude Donor '11-'12-'13-'14-'15
I shoot RAW and JPG at the same time, although I must admit I'm a bit challenged with RAW editing...
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Raw editing is not that much different than editing in Photoshop. Think of Raw file format as your original "negative". It gives you the most latitude for adjustment with no ill effects. A story I like to tell is a few years ago, I had a manual flash unit set improperly at 2 stops over exposure. I photographed a church event with WHITE robes! Needless to say, I was worried but was able to adjust the raw files back with no ill effects! (I probably moved the exposure 4 stops)
If you have Photoshop CS2 or newer, shoot raw and adjust as much as possible in Adobe Raw. Get it as close as possible in raw then convert to whatever format you want. The beauty is that you can always go back to camera settings and start over.
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Thanx... I have Elements 6 but use the software that came with my camera for RAW editing. I think my problem is there are so many variables in the editing that I don't know when to guite! Then there's filters and masks to play with, it's enough to set my ADD off!
Here's a pretty good example of me going overboard with editing and not knowing when to guite;
It would be great if we could start a Thread on editing basics and general photography for our cars... hint hint hint Bill!
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QUOTE=kcbeagle;1569799954]Hey Tim,
Raw editing is not that much different than editing in Photoshop. Think of Raw file format as your original "negative". It gives you the most latitude for adjustment with no ill effects. A story I like to tell is a few years ago, I had a manual flash unit set improperly at 2 stops over exposure. I photographed a church event with WHITE robes! Needless to say, I was worried but was able to adjust the raw files back with no ill effects! (I probably moved the exposure 4 stops)
If you have Photoshop CS2 or newer, shoot raw and adjust as much as possible in Adobe Raw. Get it as close as possible in raw then convert to whatever format you want. The beauty is that you can always go back to camera settings and start over.[/QUOTE]
Then there's filters and masks to play with, it's enough to set my ADD off!Here's a pretty good example of me going overboard with editing and not knowing when to guite;
It would be great if we could start a Thread on editing basics and general photography for our cars... hint hint hint Bill!
Tim
QUOTE=kcbeagle;1569799954]Hey Tim,
Raw editing is not that much different than editing in Photoshop. Think of Raw file format as your original "negative". It gives you the most latitude for adjustment with no ill effects. A story I like to tell is a few years ago, I had a manual flash unit set improperly at 2 stops over exposure. I photographed a church event with WHITE robes! Needless to say, I was worried but was able to adjust the raw files back with no ill effects! (I probably moved the exposure 4 stops)
If you have Photoshop CS2 or newer, shoot raw and adjust as much as possible in Adobe Raw. Get it as close as possible in raw then convert to whatever format you want. The beauty is that you can always go back to camera settings and start over.[/QUOTE]
