Huck, you need to buy some spacers! I have the same setup and just added 20mm spacers all around. Its such a big difference when looking at your car and mine now!


Take a look at this picture. Its not a great pic. But my wheels fill the gaps now. I might get springs, but who knows..

http://s7.postimage.org/4n5k1a3ln/DSC_0133.jpg

I like using saturation, I'm all about the colors being vivid and amazing, but when I tried to use more the concrete became orange and yellow and was really distracting. Where is the polarizer?

Actually I'm saving up for wheels. I have a set of brand new wheels that I'm trying to get rid of right now to help pay for the M368's I want, and when I order those I'll just get aggressive offsets so that they're flush. Then it's Swift springs! Thanks for the suggestion thought :tup:

Thanks Mike, I appreciate it!

You'd have to buy a polarizing filter. I've got a Hoya DMC PRO1 Digital Circular Polarizer.

I don't use Photoshop much, but I know Lightroom has the ability to pump the saturation, etc in certain color ranges.

Huck, have you tried using Lightroom?

I downloaded the free 30 day trial. But i've had awesome experiences with it so far for editing my photos.

Let me know what you think of CS6 after a week or two!

A couple of shots from an Italian festival last fall.


http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/g...tival-3589.jpg

http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/g...tival-3622.jpg

thanks man, I'll look into it. Mind if I ask how much yours was?

I haven't used it yet, but I've heard a lot about it. I'll try it out. I know this is totally noobish, but I've fallen in love with Snapseed on my iPad, it's crazy simple to use and actually has really good results. The only thing I don't like about it is that I can edit a 4mb pic on the iPad and then when I save the edited version it's downsized to maybe 1.5bm, so the picture quality is sacrificed. All of these pictures were taken with my D5100 and then edited with Snapseed.

I paid $90 for a 77mm.

Ok cool, I was seeing them for as low as $30ish online all the way up to $150

If you want a lot of latitude in processing, RAW is the only way to go. The pictures are huge. Mine range from 20 to 30 MB each, but you have so much more info to work with.

Huck, in Photoshop, you can play around with each channel. The blues/cyan can be adjusted independently for example. There are several ways to get just the sky darker or lighter without affecting everything else. The easiest is the dodge/burn tool.

Lr is awesome for editing and cataloging a lot of photos. I especially like how you can save and apply presets to multiple images. It saves a lot of time and makes your series of images more consistent, especially working with multiple RAW files. Not as powerful as photoshop, but a lot easier to learn and can do most of the light touch up work.

Thanks for the tips guys! Now I just need to decide what pictures to use and which ones to delete. My first impulse is to just edit all 90 something pics I took lol.


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Huck, those shots look nice with that camera. That app seems to make the pictures a little too HDR'ish for me but they are absolutely entertaining to look at.

I especially like the babe in the 4th pic...just sayin'

Good shots though!

Thanks man, I have a weakness for crazy amounts of effects, sometimes I go a little overboard.

The babe is my wife, that was at a car show went went to over the weekend. I'm pretty lucky to find a smokin girl who shares my enthusiasm for cars, video games, anime, and bloody movies :bowrofl: she's the perfect package.


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