arrrmand

jarod: yah, i actually took them knowing it's a tad underexposed so as to not blow out the headlights or the background...this was before i discovered hdr editing though, so maybe i can revisit them and play around. for hiro's car, i did some selective editing to make it seem a little bit more dreamy looking...you're actually the first person that has noticed or at least mentioned it. as for the iso200, if you're kidding, then damn you and your canon, but if not, then it's because my d70 can only go down to iso200

mac: lol your pics of my car seriously brightened my day. but this has been an idea of mine for a while to write this post up to help those who are curious.

jarod

What? The D70 goes to 200 only?? Canon's lowest is 100. I believe my 5D can go down to 50 with a hidden setting, but I heard it's interpolated so I leave it at 100.

The softblur on the white s2k looks like the softblur filter in Google's Picasa.

arrrmand

yeah, the d200 can go down to iso100 now, but unfortunately, the d70 only goes as low as 200. i've never had a problem with noise after some NR filters i found for photoshop

invisibleS2k

stickie it!!! great job Jeff..

rhayward

nice jeff ill have to read this when i have some time...cough cough when my win video $$$$$$ download freezes up

arrrmand

it looks like the avatar you have was taken under heavy yellow lighting and could use a white balance adjustment

macr88

Excellent, I'll let Sandy know.. She takes them and I edit them which consists mainly of cropping, exposing and a bit of sharpening.

I like your write up with the examples. Great job..

do you have a monitor calibrator or do you use the adobe one?

Grimnebulin

Yeah, I usually do two resets when I first fire up the camera - 1) the one to get back to the normal/base camera settings and 2) another reset to wipe the memory card as well. I forgot to do the camera settings that one time. Plus I was shooting on a tripod with remote so I wasn't paying much attention to anything other than the aperture for some reason.

My settings are base settings are basically the same as yours except I have ISO100.

Grimnebulin

I should have noticed...but I was too excited with the new car.

Actually, I kind of did notice, but I didn't put it all together in my mind until after I got home. The whole time I was wondering why the shutter times seemed fast, but I guess I had quite a brain fart going until too late...

arrrmand

mac: nope, just make sure i have a proper color profile while editing pics in photoshop...never calibrated my monitor, but i think i did fiddle with it heavily when i first got it