Photos: My Benzo with His Lexo [56k will take time]
08-29-2007, 09:48 PM
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Photos: My Benzo with His Lexo [56k will take time]
Hey
Took a few photographs with my cousins IS250 and my car. Used a Canon Rebel XTi.
Sry bout the amateur pics. If anyone got photography tips comment them on!
In some of the pics.. i can see my own reflection.. how do you take pics so you don't see your reflection if you're up close? And.. damn, black cars are hard to keep clean, stupid watermarks...even the pic below.
Took a few photographs with my cousins IS250 and my car. Used a Canon Rebel XTi.
Sry bout the amateur pics. If anyone got photography tips comment them on!
In some of the pics.. i can see my own reflection.. how do you take pics so you don't see your reflection if you're up close? And.. damn, black cars are hard to keep clean, stupid watermarks...even the pic below.
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08-29-2007, 10:16 PM
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For those shots where you don't want to be seen, a telephoto lenses or extension tubes could help you out..otherwise take in RAW or largest size JPEG, take from far away and crop. Keep it up!
08-29-2007, 11:59 PM
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Take pics of reflective areas at an angle and you won't see yourself. Can't get the right angle, move further away and use a zoom. Also carry sandpaper, you can remove the reflection from the car in a few seconds that way, heavier the grit = less reflection. Thanks for sharing pictures of a black car, that just reinforces why it's a bad a idea to buy a black car (my wife wanted a black Honda suv). I went though the pain with my black 2002 C230, never want to do that again.
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08-30-2007, 03:47 AM
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when you have a nice enough camera you can stand further away and zoom in for the picture. you'll be surprised how proportion of the car will come out.
08-31-2007, 06:45 PM
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RAW FTMFW!! It only sucks when you have to convert 200 of them at a time.
But anyway, for black cars you have three options to get rid of the reflection problem. The telephoto as Frank and Jose mentioned, flood the car with light so the reflections are not as obvious, or Photoshop out afterwards.
When shooting black cars you generally do not want to shoot the car in the shadows as you did with in a few of the pics above. You'll notice the exposure metering of the camera compensated and overexposed the sunlit background. Black cars need tons of light and should not be shot in the shadows during the day or at night unless you have auxilary lighting to compensate.
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Thanks for the help!
I dont think that I'll get a telephoto.. but after reading up on google (yup! google).. i'll use RAW format next time and see what i can do.
I dont think that I'll get a telephoto.. but after reading up on google (yup! google).. i'll use RAW format next time and see what i can do.
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