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@Paul champagne No, we don't have this kind of gatherings. Maybe in the area of Amterdam. But they keep it low profile since befor you know they spread it with FB and thousands show up.
@JIMLIGHTA Nice pics ! So the car is orange, its not the sunset making a red car appear to be orange ?
@scm .Yes, I expected it to be. But looking at the background with the orange glow, who knows. But the side of the car with the sparkling is a kind-of-a tell-tale for orange indeed.
And the red calipers, they are clearly red. No orange glow masking so !
@Paul champagne No, we don't have this kind of gatherings. Maybe in the area of Amterdam. But they keep it low profile since befor you know they spread it with FB and thousands show up.
@JIMLIGHTA Nice pics ! So the car is orange, its not the sunset making a red car appear to be orange ?
Yes, it is stock Firesand. The awesome thing about Firesand is the color shifting with low angle Sun. Digital cameras tend to exagerate effect, but it still manages to look even better in person.
The drawback is that Firesand can look dull without direct Sunlight hitting metalic flakes, which is maybe 60% of the time, obviously depending on where you live and when you drive.
Sadly, the car is filthy dirty, as you can see on the side splitters. The Sunset wouldn't wait.
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..look dull without direct Sunlight hitting metalic flakes, which is maybe 60% of the time, obviously depending on where you live and when you drive..
Thats exactly why I didn't get the Loire Blue or BRG metallic : they are so near-black that in the weather type we have here, it would 80% of the time look like a shade of grey...
@Tork Monster
I think you only succeed in making 'look alike' shots from magaizne's WITH photoshop ! I give you the example of my CCTV shots which are 2K but ofcourse the field-of-view is bigger then the car.
You need a highspeed camera and a LOT of light to allow for a short shutter opening, and you have the camera along with the car, all not so easy as a 'still'...
Ah but Dan, your CCTV camera isn't panning with the car, so it shows the car blurred. Panning with the car blurs the background, nothing to do with Photoshop, but with camera technique. And a fast shutter speed will "freeze" the motion so isn't what you want at all.
Ah but Dan, your CCTV camera isn't panning with the car, so it shows the car blurred. Panning with the car blurs the background, nothing to do with Photoshop, but with camera technique.
And a fast shutter speed will "freeze" the motion so isn't what you want at all.
Indeed, the CCTV does not pan. But panning with the car ánd using a high shutterspeed will make the body of the car focused, and the wheels and background blurred. I know since this is what I do when I take pictures of my horses running by.
But the shutterspeed and object speed are somehow related : a very high shutterspeed freezes the background as well. So set these depending on your desire. Also the diafragm comes into the equation to consider in what range the image has to be frozen.
Almost nobody knows this anymore as they all ' point & shoot ' . I used to dibble with an old 'BOX 72mmx72mm' camera using cut strips of leftover films from a filmstudio , too short to use to film.. That was in the 60-ties of the previous millennium.. ..my god I'm old...
Indeed, the CCTV does not pan. But panning with the car ánd using a high shutterspeed will make the body of the car focused, and the wheels and background blurred. I know since this is what I do when I take pictures of my horses running by.
But the shutterspeed and object speed are somehow related : a very high shutterspeed freezes the background as well.
That's right, a high shutter speed will tend to freeze the background, too. Hence use a lower shutter speed and pan on the subject as it moves past, "freezing" that and blurring all the stationary stuff.
That's right, a high shutter speed will tend to freeze the background, too. Hence use a lower shutter speed and pan on the subject as it moves past, "freezing" that and blurring all the stationary stuff.
When shooting motorcycles, 1/250 of a second was about rights to keep the rider/bike in focus, yet blur the wheels and background. Cars are more forgiving as they are larger and you can sometimes get away with 1/60 of a second if you are good enough about keeping it in frame.
I took a chance...It was an Aston Martin track days, so I gambled the drivers would be a bit more reserved. The pavement at Thunderhill is also is great shape. All I ended up with on the front of my car were some bugs.
I'm curious, though...why the painters tape on the headlights? In the old days that was to keep the glass from shattering all over the track, but since the covers aren't glass...
