02 Merc C32 AMG (Second try w/DLSR..gettin better ;))

Just delicious! Are these pictures straight off the camera? Or did you modify them afterwards? Great work!!!
 
P1et said:
Just delicious! Are these pictures straight off the camera? Or did you modify them afterwards? Great work!!!
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I resized, did slight sharpening, -5 saturation on some and that is about it. I didnt modify any lighting or contrast etc.
 
Breautiful work, and great photos! I really like the car too. The other day I got passed by one in the early morning, the red glowed so much it made the pavement next to it look red.



Mercedes brake pads dust the wheels like crazy, but they are very linear and have good pedal feel, so I never switched to an aftermarket compound on our ML. No problem for cars that are washed weekly, which this one obviously wasn't.



Again, great work!
 
01bluecls said:
Still have to figure out why I got the sun shots with a star!?!? Does it mean my shutter speed was too low or high? Or was the f-stop too low or high?
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Hey Chris, first off - beautiful work. Really amazing turnaround and absolutely great results.



About the starring at your light source - this happens when you're shooting with a stopped down or near closed aperture. I'm sure you know some of this, but for further explanation to everyone - the higher the f-stop number (f22 for example), the smaller the opening in the aperture blades. The number relates to the relation of the focal length of the lens to the diameter of the aperture opening. For example, if you're shooting a 35mm focal length lens and shoot at f/16, the opening is 35/16 or about 2.2 mm.



When you shoot stopped down like this, usually because you're shooting directly into a bright scene (or with the light or sun source right in the middle of the shot), the light actually gets refracted off of the blades of the aperture. The number of points in your star will be related to the number of blades that make up the aperture in that specific lens. You'll notice that all of your sunspots have pretty much the same pattern to them.



I understand why you don't like those stars for sites like this or for inspecting your work, but I think they would play really well with the average non-autopian looking at your results. To avoid them, you'll have to choose shutter speeds that are faster in order to open the aperture or use the aperture priority setting and fix your aperture at around the f8 to f16 range. This should preserve your depth of field and avoid some of the starring.



Hope this helps if you've read this far. Otherwise, I understand the extreme tedium and boredom I've just subjected you to. :ca
 
Superb and another example of why I respect you guys that do this for a living and why I could never do this for a living :)



Why the hell buy and AMG if your going to run it into the ground. That thing was BEAT before you got your hands on it.



Again, superb job. You really turned that one around 180 degrees.
 
Redbird74 said:
Hey Chris, first off - beautiful work. Really amazing turnaround and absolutely great results.



About the starring at your light source - this happens when you're shooting with a stopped down or near closed aperture. I'm sure you know some of this, but for further explanation to everyone - the higher the f-stop number (f22 for example), the smaller the opening in the aperture blades. The number relates to the relation of the focal length of the lens to the diameter of the aperture opening. For example, if you're shooting a 35mm focal length lens and shoot at f/16, the opening is 35/16 or about 2.2 mm.



When you shoot stopped down like this, usually because you're shooting directly into a bright scene (or with the light or sun source right in the middle of the shot), the light actually gets refracted off of the blades of the aperture. The number of points in your star will be related to the number of blades that make up the aperture in that specific lens. You'll notice that all of your sunspots have pretty much the same pattern to them.



I understand why you don't like those stars for sites like this or for inspecting your work, but I think they would play really well with the average non-autopian looking at your results. To avoid them, you'll have to choose shutter speeds that are faster in order to open the aperture or use the aperture priority setting and fix your aperture at around the f8 to f16 range. This should preserve your depth of field and avoid some of the starring.



Hope this helps if you've read this far. Otherwise, I understand the extreme tedium and boredom I've just subjected you to. :ca
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Thanks for the tips! This thread is actually over a month old lol. I have since then gotten a little better with pictures. I now shoot primarily at a 5.6 fstop and adjust shutter speed accordingly to lighting conditions.





Thanks for the compliments everyone!
 
lol guess thread brought back to life. Do you usually do one panel with sip and po106ff first and then move on, or do the whole car with sip and then over it again with po106ff?
 
artikxscout said:
lol guess thread brought back to life. Do you usually do one panel with sip and po106ff first and then move on, or do the whole car with sip and then over it again with po106ff?
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I usually do all polishing steps a panel or two at a time. If I am very pressed for time, I will half the car's polishing steps at a time. Meaning, do the two-three steps on one side then the other other side after that.
 
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