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#182 ·
deaf - at 100% the shot of you and your brother looks to break down abit, I think a large format print is not going to come out quite as nice as you like. I think going much beyond a standard 8x10 may be pushing it.

Large format prints are hands down the toughest part of shooting. Any little thing is totally dramatized when you go from 8x10 to formats at or around 13x19 and up. Sharpness and noise are majorly elevated and if you can get control of those, your golden when you go to print in those bigger formats.

Here's the thing though, you can probably look past that because it's something close to your heart, it's a memory with real feeling. From that perspective I would say give it a try.
 
#183 ·
Emay said:
deaf - at 100% the shot of you and your brother looks to break down abit, I think a large format print is not going to come out quite as nice as you like. I think going much beyond a standard 8x10 may be pushing it.

Large format prints are hands down the toughest part of shooting. Any little thing is totally dramatized when you go from 8x10 to formats at or around 13x19 and up. Sharpness and noise are majorly elevated and if you can get control of those, your golden when you go to print in those bigger formats.

Here's the thing though, you can probably look past that because it's something close to your heart, it's a memory with real feeling. From that perspective I would say give it a try.
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Definitely will. I got a 36x24 of my car in my room and it looks pretty damn good actually. When you have your face pressed against it you can see imperfections but since it's above my bed, no one ever does that. I think that a 24x16 should come out pretty good though. I'll let you guys know once I order it.
 
#185 ·
Shook, I run my prints through exposure manager. I also print all sizes to 13x19 from my home studio direct as needed.

The rolling shots are as you described a dragged shutter. I gravitated to a boom arm about a year ago and will never shoot from a chase car again because of the total control you get - not to mention I can run the shoot with no assistant/driver. Here's the set up and final shot - believe it or not I dragged the shutter enough that this pic was taken going only 10-15mph - looks like 60 or so:

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#186 ·
Shook1db said:
Is the trick here to make your shutter speed slower to get the blur effect on the wheels?

Where do you get stuff printed at?
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If you don't have a large boom (sometimes can be expensive to build) there are other ways of getting these shots.

The poor mans way.

Travel in a car next to your subject vehicle. I generally set the shutter speed to the same if not slower than the speed the car is traveling. Works well most the time on a highway. If you get on the interstate and go 70 you can usually get away with a 1/60 1/70 ss and still have sharp shots. But plan on doing some work in post.
 
#190 ·
Emay said:
Shook, I run my prints through exposure manager. I also print all sizes to 13x19 from my home studio direct as needed.

The rolling shots are as you described a dragged shutter. I gravitated to a boom arm about a year ago and will never shoot from a chase car again because of the total control you get - not to mention I can run the shoot with no assistant/driver. Here's the set up and final shot - believe it or not I dragged the shutter enough that this pic was taken going only 10-15mph - looks like 60 or so:


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Do you happen to have a pre-edit of this one? I'm curious to see how it looked.

Also what did that boom arm run you?
 
#191 ·
I might - I'll check bridge when I get home tonite.

I pieced that arm together and what you see in the setup photo is my final layout as I started out making due with what worked, and as money came in I re-invested in better pieces.

The arm is 3 (4ft) sections from visual echos. He's an everyday photog that saw a market for the arm. I got mine for 129.00 in a group buy, I think he's doing single orders at 199.00 these days.

The manfrotto magic arm is pricey at a hundo, but there's 50 other vulchers out there that make a similar component for half the price. I went with the manfrotto because I wanted to be damn sure I didn't skid 5 to 6k worth of gear down the road. Manfrotto's arm is hardcore.

The rest you can pick your poison on. I used calumet clamps on avenger cups. The cups are 30-40 a piece and the clamps can be had anywhere from 19.00 to 50.00

The clamps - go economical no need for big money clamps. The cups if you are cool with checking the suction hold continually can also be had on the cheap end. The arm needs to be strong and not do much bouncing - that's the key.

Let me know if you need anything else nate -
 
#192 ·
Emay said:
Shook, I run my prints through exposure manager. I also print all sizes to 13x19 from my home studio direct as needed.

The rolling shots are as you described a dragged shutter. I gravitated to a boom arm about a year ago and will never shoot from a chase car again because of the total control you get - not to mention I can run the shoot with no assistant/driver. Here's the set up and final shot - believe it or not I dragged the shutter enough that this pic was taken going only 10-15mph - looks like 60 or so:

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That looks awesome. You edit it out in photoshop or what? I am not good with photoshop at all. I'm really coming to love lightroom.

That's for the info on the shutter speeds Taylor. I will be doing it the poor mans way for a while, lol.

If you guys don't mind critiquing a photo I took the other night I'd appreciate it. I realize the extension cord that has the end lit up is a bit distracting.
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#193 ·
Shook1db said:
That looks awesome. You edit it out in photoshop or what? I am not good with photoshop at all. I'm really coming to love lightroom.


If you guys don't mind critiquing a photo I took the other night I'd appreciate it. I realize the extension cord that has the end lit up is a bit distracting.
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Lightroom is a great dark room tool, but it extends no further than that. While incredibly powerful, I cannot live without Photoshop. You simply cannot drill down on fine editing in LR. Matter of fact my edit paths are import to bridge, import to lightroom, quick and dirty tweaks in lightroom, export to cs5, final edit and watermark.

All of my plugin and filter purchases are owned in CS5 and your span of control on the edit is 200% that of lightroom.

As for the picture - I like the feel of your shot - I'd like a touch more ground just in front of the car to enhance the gritty dark feel. The cable is symantics, at least you know now to watch in the view finder going forward.

If you have control of that lightsource, you can enhance the dramatics of this shot by moving it further back on the car, this will cause a far more drastic drop off of what's in view and then fades to dark from left to right on the front of the car. I think a 2 ft move or so. If you can redo, try it and see if you like it any better.
 
#194 ·
Emay said:
Lightroom is a great dark room tool, but it extends no further than that. While incredibly powerful, I cannot live without Photoshop. You simply cannot drill down on fine editing in LR. Matter of fact my edit paths are import to bridge, import to lightroom, quick and dirty tweaks in lightroom, export to cs5, final edit and watermark.

All of my plugin and filter purchases are owned in CS5 and your span of control on the edit is 200% that of lightroom.

As for the picture - I like the feel of your shot - I'd like a touch more ground just in front of the car to enhance the gritty dark feel. The cable is symantics, at least you know now to watch in the view finder going forward.

If you have control of that lightsource, you can enhance the dramatics of this shot by moving it further back on the car, this will cause a far more drastic drop off of what's in view and then fades to dark from left to right on the front of the car. I think a 2 ft move or so. If you can redo, try it and see if you like it any better.
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Good to know about photoshop. It's way more in depth, obviously and that's what makes it so much more difficult, lol. If you don't mind explaining a bit what is Bridge used for?

I do have control. Next time I'm out there I will push it back a bit and see if I can get the result you are talking about. This camera has been one of the better investments I have made in a long time. Thanks guys.
 
#195 ·
Bridge is adobe's file management tool. If you buy into their master suite of products or even just use CS5 and dreamweaver, bridge houses and maintains your files for quick use between their entire suite of tools. It's probably the easiest way to manage digital design content. I prefer my file management housed in my LR4 catalog, but I start out importing to bridge then pull to LR as I mentioned earlier. I use LR mainly because I can embed my digital data as owner (as deeply as business name and contact info) and catalog as I see fit in an infinite amount of ways.
 
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#198 ·
Shook1db said:
That looks awesome. You edit it out in photoshop or what? I am not good with photoshop at all. I'm really coming to love lightroom.

That's for the info on the shutter speeds Taylor. I will be doing it the poor mans way for a while, lol.

If you guys don't mind critiquing a photo I took the other night I'd appreciate it. I realize the extension cord that has the end lit up is a bit distracting.
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If you edited the antenna out it would look 100x better IMO. It's too distracting.



*Edit* Emay, I ordered that photo of my brother and me in 16x24 on metallic paper and it came out pretty damn good. The photo isn't 100% perfect but when I look at it, it looks perfect to me. Thanks for the advice man. By the way, I ordered it from mpix.com and was shipped here quick, very very well packaged and only cost me $22. Highly recommended to anyone who wants to have photos printed.
 
#199 ·
Emay said:
Funny you should ask - a few pages back I listed two options I'm currently using because I get this question in PM nearly daily. One is super economical but has a flaw or two, other is expensive but flawless - here's a direct link to the post page, scroll down a bit and I have pics and all:

http://www.moddedmustangs.com/forum...m/forums/pictures/288673-photography-help-tips-tricks-thread-6.html#post5034251
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Thats pretty cool. i have the equivalent of your first one that needs line of sight, just curious.
 
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UDEAFBRO? said:
If you edited the antenna out it would look 100x better IMO. It's too distracting.



*Edit* Emay, I ordered that photo of my brother and me in 16x24 on metallic paper and it came out pretty damn good. The photo isn't 100% perfect but when I look at it, it looks perfect to me. Thanks for the advice man. By the way, I ordered it from mpix.com and was shipped here quick, very very well packaged and only cost me $22. Highly recommended to anyone who wants to have photos printed.
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Metallic paper looks awesome. I hate glossy paper because of how reflective it is, but metallic paper has depth and my eyes just bypass the glare.


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