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Originally Posted by blackcherry20 (Post 2265029)

:tup: just dawned on me. Many of my shots over exposed. I was thinking i should be center weighted off the Z because it is so dark?!

I usually aim for the headlights or tail lights...then switch to manual if I have to. Black is always tricky to expose properly unless it "pops" in scene.

Good idea ...try that today. Ty!

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Originally Posted by blackcherry20 (Post 2265029)

:tup: just dawned on me. Many of my shots over exposed. I was thinking i should be center weighted off the Z because it is so dark?!

I find shooting a white car just as tricky!
It can depend on the lighting conditions, but I usually set the camera to meter the whole frame when shooting the whole car in a scene. When I'm just shooting a detail part of the car, I use spot metering.

Shooting your car in a scene might be a good time to set up brackets or manually take the shot at -1, 0 and +1 on the exposure meter and see what you like best.
When I tweaked the picture of your car, I actually brought the exposure up, but introduced a little more contrast to the whole shot. If I really wanted to spend more time with it, I could use a graduated filter or the brush to darken the background or lighten the car so it pops more in the shot.

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Originally Posted by LunaZ (Post 2265153)

When I tweaked the picture of your car, I actually brought the exposure up, but introduced a little more contrast to the whole shot. If I really wanted to spend more time with it, I could use a graduated filter or the brush to darken the background or lighten the car so it pops more in the shot.

I played with it a bit more but it's a bit difficult to recover the roof line with the glare and reflection. It's just too blown out in that spot. I'm at -100 highlights.
Working on a small .jpg doesn't help either ;)
But here's a little more contrast and colour and depth to the shot:

http://www.modachroma.com/the370z/BCZ2-.JPG

I think a polarizer might help with that.

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Originally Posted by Cmike2780 (Post 2263527)

So a couple of months ago I decided to switch from my D90 to a D7000. I was so excited to finally have nice weather out a few days ago so I took my niece to the Bronx Zoo. I took over 300 shots and was about to post a few of them here for you guys, but then.....womp, womp :/

After reviewing the pics on the computer, I was really disappointed. I don't know how I missed this, but the damn thing is back focusing on every shot. It's way, way off and pretty terrible at anything below f/8 on my 35mm lens. Just as bad with the 50mm f/1.8 and the 105mm f/2.8. I kind of noticed it when I first got it, but I honestly thought is was all in my head or user error. It's partially my fault for only looking at the lcd instead of downloading to the computer.

After doing some searching, I found out this isn't all that uncommon. Mine seems to be way out of calibration though and I still can't get it to be reasonably accurate with the AF fine tuning (still oof pushed -20). Thankfully, Nikon's HQ in Melville is about 20 minutes from me.

My new canon 85 1.8 front focuses and its annoying, but fiddling with the microadjusment on the go helps tremendously, it just take time to get used to how much to adjust. Gotta zoom in the LCD to see it though. My old 50mm did the same thing too. I guess its very common which sucks:mad:

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Originally Posted by Cmike2780 (Post 2265181)

I think a polarizer might help with that.

Ah. I need to add one of those to my bag.
Circular or...?

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Originally Posted by LunaZ (Post 2265684)

Ah. I need to add one of those to my bag.
Circular or...?

:tup: as creative as you are prob both the circular and (linear) don't remember what the other one is called. I do have a circular one...i did not have it on the camera the day i took the pic you tweaked.

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Originally Posted by Cmike2780 (Post 2265181)

I think a polarizer might help with that.

:tup: it would have IF i had used it ;) :p

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Originally Posted by m4a1mustang (Post 2263311)

From a recent cruise. I ended up liking this one a lot.

http://stfoto.smugmug.com/Cars/Velos...MG_9677-XL.jpg

Steve, what spoiler is that on the black one? I love it. Which means it's probably about $1200... :(:icon14:

It's INGS+1 so it's a little pricey for a mostly decorative wing. Probably around $1200 like you guessed.

How close are you sitting when you got these shots? Re blurred background...

my 7d has a creative function that will do that for you.