Automotive Photography Competition #212 [Voting]

[#1 Mustang Fan]

Vote for whose photo you think is the best


Escort BDA
basman007
4/4
Holland
Canon 40D, 70-200 F2.8 IS
200mm, 1/400, F3.5, ISO100



kvisser
jag in the garage
May 2009
nikon d90, slight raw adjustments



Rijoh
Daddy does a burnout
March 15th, 2009
Canon EOS 450D



Henk4
Symphony in Red
Canon 40D
28-300 IS
-09-05-2009



Niko_Fx
C6 Z06 - HDR
Fort Lauderdale, Florida
05/15/09



Timothy (in VA)
Gee-Tee-Oh
May 11, 2009
Sony DSC-S500



Fumacher
Lola Aston Martin
Spa-Francorchamps
10-05-2009
Nikon D90



NIKOWGCF
PORSCHE 996 GT3 RS
PHILLIP ISLAND 16-5-09
CANON 400D
1/250th shutter
F10
400 ISO
418mm focal length



Cotterik
My New Corsa SXI
Warrington, UK
Nikon D80 w/ 18mm Wide Angle + Reverse Polarizer
14/05/09



pat_ernzen
La Bala
March 1st, 2009
Canon 20D

Good luck to you all.

[clutch-monkey]

lol @ phil's car spitting flames as always
although he didn't have a very good session

[henk4]

just a minor comment, I gave my shot a title, which you may have overlooked...

[#1 Mustang Fan]

My bad, its in now.

[henk4]

My bad, its in now.

thank you.

[LeonOfTheDead]

Henk, your shots always look a bit grainy and whitish.
Maybe something related to the conversion from raw to jpg?

[Niko_Fx]

Oh well, I guess I'm in, glad it's all over (I had asked Pat through a PM to exclude me from the voting thread).

[henk4]

Henk, your shots always look a bit grainy and whitish.
Maybe something related to the conversion from raw to jpg?

I have always asked myself the same question, your suggestion is certainly incorrect as I shoot in JPEG...but maybe using irfanview to reduce the size of the shot to competition dimensions takes away a lot. Sometimes somebody else resizes the shot for me using Photoshop and at least then the size is a lot bigger than when using other programs. As I have no photoshop license, I cannot do it myself. In this case I was in a hurry when I uploaded the picture and did nothing at all to it, just resizing.

[LeonOfTheDead]

I have always asked myself the same question, your suggestion is certainly incorrect as I shoot in JPEG...but maybe using irfanview to reduce the size of the shot to competition dimensions takes away a lot. Sometimes somebody else resizes the shot for me using Photoshop and at least then the size is a lot bigger than when using other programs. As I have no photoshop license, I cannot do it myself. In this case I was in a hurry when I uploaded the picture and did nothing at all to it, just resizing.

Do you always shot in JPEG?

The resizing process could be the reason then.
I usually use GIMP (it's an open source photoshop basically), but even a simple and small program like GoodFrame (this is free too) does it perfectly, allowing to reduce both size and dimensions in a snap without loosing too much quality. You can even add watermarks and other stuff, or batch processing a whole folder.

[henk4]

Do you always shot in JPEG?

The resizing process could be the reason then.
I usually use GIMP (it's an open source photoshop basically), but even a simple and small program like GoodFrame (this is free too) does it perfectly, allowing to reduce both size and dimensions in a snap without loosing too much quality. You can even add watermarks and other stuff, or batch processing a whole folder.

Yes, and I'll have a look at the other options you gave.

[NSXType-R]

Henk, your shots always look a bit grainy and whitish.
Maybe something related to the conversion from raw to jpg?

Yeah, I always wondered why the quality of his photos in the competitions are worse than the ones in the articles he writes.

[henk4]

Yeah, I always wondered why the quality of his photos in the competitions are worse than the ones in the articles he writes.

we discovered the problem, when using "paint" to put the watermark on, the (technical) quality of the shot greatly deteriorates.

[pat_ernzen]

we discovered the problem, when using "paint" to put the watermark on, the (technical) quality of the shot greatly deteriorates.

Wait, like, MSPaint? For real?

[henk4]

Wait, like, MSPaint? For real?

The program says "Paint" it comes with MS-Office or XP (I really don't know). I am from the film generation, working with computers is not my favourite job, let alone sorting out all these fancy programmes that serve to mask the deficiencies of a particular shot

[Kitdy]

I think it's fair to argue there was an art in developing film and that is analogous to post processing via computer today.

Frankly, I find shots look better processed so I'd rather see them anyways.