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Old 07-31-2011, 10:42 AM   #4441 (permalink)
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FIrst burn out ever..... Figure 8 in a chuch parking lot at 2:30am.....than WOT down the street and back. What a great feeling! The smell of burnt tires are my biggest turn on
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Trying to decide if we are going to drive the Z to NoVA today(GMU). Our daughter has to have her wisdom teeth pulled tomorrow and is working a summer internship up near school. We are going to stay tonight and take her to her appt tomorrow. Z or Xterra....

We took the to roadster our for frozen yogurt last night.

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Thanks Beach... your edit on Nitex's shot looks awesome. What did you do and how did you do it???
I use Adobe Lightroom for most of my editing. Lots of things you can do but most of what I did in that shot was exposure control.

Here is a shot with exposure change in different areas so that you don't loose all of the detail in the shadows...




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^^ yes, ty beach! Looks great. One thing im noticing was over-bright metering and exposure in most shots. Im going to try to find a filter before i move on to another full on DSLR. Its nice have such a small camera but price is right there for something like a T2i/T3i.

I do have control over this with PASM modes on the NEX 5.. I guess i just need to keep tweaking it.
You should be able to change your metering/exposure compenstaion so that have less exposure. I almost always shot at -.3 or -.7 in sunlight on any Nikon body.




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i was just doing practice shots today in raw + fine jpeg format. i wanted to compare how much more control i would have on the editor's side in extreme lighting.

i found out that there's really no magic to raw. if the exposure is f-ked up it's just as bad as doing jpg editing using levels, saturation, and some sharpening, brightness recovery. honestly my goal is to hit the shot right from the camera and do very minimal editing so im going to just use jpeg-normal format for now. it's good enough for me.
I almost always shoot raw (especially when shooting for a client) because it gives me greater ability to recover in the event that really blow a shot. I also find that if I am shooting a loot of zoom, you get a lot more detail which is helpful when you are cropping in close for an ultra tight shots... say soccer or wildlife.


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Yup wind deflector From. First pic is the deflector(yes it's covered in fingerprints in th pic) and second pic shows where it is(it was taken before the sticker was put on). It's a vert thing I'm not getting my windows done cause they are onlyup when the car isn't being driven or that very short time that it is in the rain.
Looks good! I need to do mine.

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Got the front windows tinted again after getting a ticket a few weeks back. I opted for a shade lighter than the rear windows although this pic is a tad hard to tell:

Nice shot and beautiful car! Lookin good!

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FIrst burn out ever..... Figure 8 in a chuch parking lot at 2:30am.....than WOT down the street and back. What a great feeling! The smell of burnt tires are my biggest turn on
In the Churchlady voice from SNL.... "What would make you drive your shiney sports car like that? Could it be.......SATIN?" Sorry couldn't resist.
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pedel- your b-pillars look nice job!
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I changed the time in my Z as it was in hour behind, but why can't we have the speed instead of the clock, I hate that and miss that with my past Z's.
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Motored my Z and QD'ed afterwards. was a good drive.
Cleaned up the engine bay as well. I hate dust in there.
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Motored my Z and QD'ed afterwards. was a good drive.
Cleaned up the engine bay as well. I hate dust in there.
I am going to be boring and just wash and dry the 370 today. ZZZZZZZ

Then I am going to try to get soem hummingbird shots at high shutter speed with the 7D.

Who is going to start the DSLR thread?
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Yeah TT i need a better editing software. This sony stuff is.. ok. This was my first attempt at editing a photo, and im sure it shows

So overall i like the shots but they are still abit soft. It is what it is for a mirrorless compact with SLR sensor/lens. Im still working on apeture, metering and so on, but im wondering if its a lost cause with this camera.

I bought the 2.8/16 to see if it made any difference over the kit lens 3.5-5.6/18-55. Most of these were taken with the new 16mm.

Problem however is a mysterious red dot keeps showing up in my shots. Could this be the editing software? I tried to get some air in there to see if it was dust. Anythoughts? (see the first shot front bumper drivers side, second shot lower left hand corner of my door panel, and in the same general location of all the shots.)






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Those red dots almost look like street lights, other than that if they are not street lights then it must be the camera as editing software will not do that.
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Those red dots almost look like street lights, other than that if they are not street lights then it must be the camera as editing software will not do that.
Yeah, i see the 2 street lights in the door/fender join you mention. Its hard to see in these compressed shots. Its definately the camera.. And its going back today.
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I am going to be boring and just wash and dry the 370 today. ZZZZZZZ

Then I am going to try to get soem hummingbird shots at high shutter speed with the 7D.

Who is going to start the DSLR thread?
Sounds relaxing.

In for humming bird shots. I suppose we can start a DSLR thread in the photography forum.

Nitex- looking good. I likes the bottom one. Looks like a sig pict

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Beach, thanks for the tips... Adobe lightroom eh... It looks like you can adjust exposure in certain areas only and not the whole pic? If so, that is very cool. I use Capture NX2, but I didn't think you could do sectional exposure adjustment. I might have to get lightroom...
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That looks so bada$s trips, wow! I love how all the matte black trim ties into each other so well, very well done.
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