My 2011 Dodge Charger R/T

[S&S Photography]

heres a few shots i did today of my ride..no lenses or anything..still tryin to get use to my camera and play with the settings..also have no photo editin software..hope yall like..any helpful tips would be nice

[tukaniray]

Not bad. Watch your exposure.

Do you have any photo manipulation software? Lightroom, Aperture or Photoshop?
I bet if you play with the curves and levels of the shots, they will pop.

-Ray-

[S&S Photography]

Originally Posted by tukaniray

Not bad. Watch your exposure.

Do you have any photo manipulation software? Lightroom, Aperture or Photoshop?
I bet if you play with the curves and levels of the shots, they will pop.

-Ray-

i dont have any software yet..can you explain a little to me how to watch my exposure and what i should look for when im shooting?

[groovyone]

Any time you are shooting a white car your camera will tend to underexpose since it is trying for 18% gray. Typically you may have to dial in +2/3 to +1 ev to get the white car to be white and not gray. I have the opposite problem with my black cars since the camera also tries to make them gray and overexposes.

[S&S Photography]

dial in a +2/3 to +1? sorry with bein still new to slr cameras and stuff can you explain more

[groovyone]

Originally Posted by S&S Photography

dial in a +2/3 to +1? sorry with bein still new to slr cameras and stuff can you explain more

Your camera has exposure compensation (the +/-) button. If you are shooting in any mode other than manual this will make the camera over (+) or under(-) expose the scene in relation to what it thinks the scene should be metered at. Cameras try for a middle ground, referred to as 18% gray, in pretty much every situation. Unfortunately this has the effect like I described, where white comes out gray (underexposed), and black comes out gray (overexposed). You can compensate for that by increasing the exposure value to get your whites white, or decreasing the exposure value to get your blacks black.

[revjvegas]

Regarding editing software, you might want to try out Lightroom. They'll probably have another good price deal on Lightroom again, if not going on right now. You can download a trial to see if you like it. There are others out there of course; find what you're comfortable working with.

With a little tweaking, you can make that image pop ... it's all subjective of course. What one person's eye likes, may not be that of another.

Kinda like this for example:

[Houston-X]

Nice Shots!! I really like the angles on them.

You have NC but you also asked for helpful tips. I think your shots would look alot better if you can get the poles edited out.

FYI: GIMP is a free photo editing software that very useful for some of these adjustments.

[S&S Photography]

Originally Posted by Houston-X

Nice Shots!! I really like the angles on them.

You have NC but you also asked for helpful tips. I think your shots would look alot better if you can get the poles edited out.

FYI: GIMP is a free photo editing software that very useful for some of these adjustments.

may i ask what NC is? ill look into GIMP and see if i can play around with it..thanks

[revjvegas]

NC = no critique

More detailed info here: New Constructive Critiques Guidelines

[d2creative]

You shot these without lenses? I'm impressed!

[S&S Photography]

Originally Posted by d2creative

You shot these without lenses? I'm impressed!

yep, i dont have any lenses yet..still tryin to figure out the diff between them all..mainly lookin for a good wide angle/fish eye for a good price

[groovyone]

Originally Posted by d2creative

You shot these without lenses? I'm impressed!

Its a Sony. We are awesome like that.

Where are you in Houston, Justin?

[S&S Photography]

Originally Posted by groovyone

Its a Sony. We are awesome like that.

Where are you in Houston, Justin?

between bear creek/copperfield area..off Hwy 6