Justinian

This is my first time taking my camera and actually trying to take some "artistic" shots of my car. I read some of the advice in the sticky about taking good pictures at the top of this forum, but I'm a noobie at best. I appreciate any comments and advice.

The car itself is a 2006 SS/SC w/ G85 and XM. Still stock, I'm afraid, but then again I've only had the car for a week!

























Thanks for your interest!

MarcS

Good eye on the shots

your car looks kinda pink though

What camera did you use and what kind of settings?

DC52NV

pictures are extremely over exposed. which setting did you use to take those pics and with which camera? tried checking what your settings were but since you cropped your pics it's not showing the info. for starters, i'd shoot from auto mode and start from there. first time w/ the camera and adjusting settings will not be a good start. it's great to see people getting into photography. it's not easy and will take lots of work to get it right.

Justinian

I have a Nikon "Coolpix" 3200. I have it set for highest quality and I put the flash to always on for the shoot. I think the "pinkness" comes from overzealous attempts to correct the coloring on some of the photos. Several of them looked kind of washed out in original format, so I tried to fix them up a bit with Photofiltre. I'm not sure if they look better or worse.

For example, here's the unedited version of the second picture from above:

DC52NV

turn off the flash. that could be why they are over exposed. too much lighting will over expose your pics. it looks very sunny on the pics so the flash is not needed. i would get a tripod as well.

MarcS

No reason to use flash outside in the daylight. That could have been the problem.

3fo893013L

I'm going to chime in, I'm not a photo expert either but on cloudier days the colors really come out on red. See Thread: https://www.cobaltss.net/forums/featured-car-showcase-74/sneakys-intro-thread-56k%3Dno-23470/ although it was sunny my girls camera was able to compensate.

My pictures came out in Pink before when I first got the car, found out it was the camera I was using that was causing it (megapixel count too low and format was only found in 380x120) needless to say I borrowed my girlfriends 4 megapixel camera. It's a Sony. Not sure what model or anything but it's light years ahead of my poloroid

Nice SS by the way Good color choice!

Leafy

In most cases I've found that MP doesn't matter as much as the quality of the Camera and the quality of the lens... My 5 mega pixel Kodak Z740 will outshoot most cameras it's price range because of the size of the lens (allowing more light, more information) and the quality of the camera itself.

Most handhelds are sufficent for making good, quick snaps but the bottleneck being the lens size. It's like having a Pentium IV HT but only having 256 MB of ram, and a 32 MB Video card, it just won't perform to it's potential.

I've gotten some good shots Even with my 2 MP Kodak CX4230, colour was never an issue there...

silverSS

I didnt know they made the SS in pink!

JP....turn off the flash

Justinian

Thanks for the advice, guys. The only reason I had the flash on was because of the advice in the "How to take amazing pictures of your car" sticky. Guess I should have gone with my gut instinct instead. Next time I'll leave the flash off and see if I can find a tripod.

OniMirage

Actually I think it has more to do with the cameras recording method. Every digital camera has processor that renders the image as you take it. There are different methods used to recreate color resolution and well some cameras just don't take good pictures in certain situations because of this. Most cameras use an auto contrast render method based on what is currently being seen and what the camera has been specified to use based on the user settings. The cross between the two creates your image. Other cameras use an Auto level render method which may overwrite the user settings and as seen above can produce strange anamolies even in decent situations.

Auto contrast methods determine and adjust the brightest pixel, darkest pixel and most true gray pixel within the image that is taken thus the image may take slightly longer to process but the results are a more accurate image of what the viewer actually sees. This method is the most natural since the actual colors are not modified.

Auto level methods use the brightest white, darkest black and middle most gray within the entire color scale. The scale is done between 0-255 where 0 is black and 255 is white. The processor would determine which pixels within the scene are in fact the darkest or brightest assigning them as 0 and 255 which will slightly alter their color output if the pixels were not originally black or white. The difference between the two pixels that were assigned as 0 and 255 before they were actually changed will become the gray. The result in most cases is faster recording since the scale is pre determined but the result can sometimes be color inaccuracies.

Mercury

Looks great. Reminds me of when I got mine. Take good care of her!

Justinian

Thanks.

I'll bump the thread up after my next attempt at some good photography, which will hopefully eliminate the pinkness.

blowncobalt

NICE looks like mine!

Justinian

Bump.

One of my friends recently bought an '05 GTO. I met him for dinner this week and we couldn't resist the urge to take a few shots of our cars together, even though the light was craptacular. Hopefully you'll be seeing these two cars in later shoots at much nicer locations, but for now enjoy:











That 6.0L V8 is one scary engine.