another one I took today

 

thats a sweet perspective it almost looklike a globe with the vignetting in the upper corners like ur car infront of giant earth..

 

thanks
unforunately I dont own a slim polarizer for the wide angle which explains the corners
but I suppose for this image it works :D

 

yeah at first i was kinda ehh about the corners then i gave it a second and let it sink in i was like ohhh nice goodjob

 

my little one's a pain in the butt to try & photograph cuz she's a spaz.

 

Tina that is by far the best photo u have posted on here. Nice DOF and nice exposure. Good work.

 

x2 on that, very clean. makes me want a dog but where i live i am not allowed to have any : (

 

Ro_Ja loving the shot on the last page, looks like it came out of a magazine

 

Thank you! I'm going to try and redo the shot when I lower the coils more. Also, I'll probably move it over more so that the lightpole isn't sticking out of my hood.

 

OK this is what my cheap camera can do with my lack of skillz .

making up for the pages that no pics were posted on .

Super Nationals 2009, I have tons more pics, but these are my favs.

 

nice, but settle down with the PS.

 

PS? thats raw

only thing in ps is border and exposure settings with clarity

 

Jon nice subjects,
but all the photos seem to be void of detail and sharpness.

i.e. in all the photos the people in the background have no detail and look like theyve been hit with gaussian blur.

I dont know if its the cameras settings or you overused the blur tool.

did you use your p&s or dslr?
I cant tell if you're being sarcastic or not when you say you're using your cheap camera.

if youre using the dslr, I know for sure that the 18-55 lens is more than capable of capturing more details than what the photo shows. The white balance is off too. Also your shutter speed needs to be increased and possibly lowering your aperture to increase sharpness, than fixing exposure in raw tool. You have a lot of motion blur.

other than that, your composition is nice and the subject is good.

 

Im using my DSLR I dont use my p&s anymore. Thats the point of a DSLR purchase.

I never and will never and never have used blur on anything

I shoot in nothing but manual mode.

maybe they looked blured because of DOF maybe they looked blured cause of motion, with low light situations IDK

 

i stand by jon 100% for him saying they are purely DSLR.

but lets switch topics, my red rims

 

The EXIF data on the pics say Canon XS.

 

with people the 18 55 lens can capture a crap load of detail for what it is. if it was a dof issue than the people were be out of focus, it looks more like you toned down the clarity level in the raw tool.

there are two types of blur I see in your photos,

1. motion blur from too low of a shutter speed.

2. gaussian type blur where the outlines of the people are in focus but any detail in shirts and face are void of detail.

in low light conditions and a slow lens, Id take the shots underexposed to get the right aperture and shutter speed and fix later in raw tool.

but from what I see in the photos, the light is more than sufficient for the 18 55. Thats not considered low light at all. lighting in car shows should have exception lighting. I see the same gaussian blur effects on your outside pics. So I know its not the lighting.

 

finally someone does research

Ro_Ja you are smart

 

so tell me, anybody, why are teh standards SO high for this thread?
and why is so much expected out of others?