Why turn this into a wrecked cobalt thread guys?

It's better than fighting about photography skills...

how about just "why?" pictures lol.

bama, thanks for the points btw. but we can't even see your car!!

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nice car, but her and the guy on the left might be hard to photoshop out. unless they want to be in the calender.. lol

It would actually be pretty easy to photoshop out. But that's against the rules :(

i see i'm not the only one! i tried to get a couple pictures with mine but black/white/grey just doesn't work to well. and the light was all wrong. its still a nice picture, just not something i would submit for this. yours is sick though.

http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphoto...48660655_n.jpg

i had thought about these two. the first one is again (to me) a nice shot just not submission worthy. the second one i like cause its different but the light made the picture turn out weird.
http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphoto...04717675_n.jpg

http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphoto...90823884_n.jpg

so i decided to go with the engine bay hoodless picture.

http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphoto...86895681_n.jpg

Yea on dark cars its sometimes hard to see the side skirt area. Unless you edit lol

ouch! I have a hard time getting the right exposure to properly accent my black wheel but also dark enough to burn the sky...I could only imagine with a dark car like your AND on a flat-light day AND a picture from far away...must be difficult without photoshop :lol:

YEah but I'm just shooting for a nice background other than grass or a sky. IMO a background makes the picture

Of course! I think I'm going to take more pictures for the calendar though, I feel as though my car is a little small in my submission. What do you think? (it's near the end of page 2)

if you have a camera capable of it, run atleast a 3 exposure bracket....you would then merge this into an HDR shot...this is pretty much the only way to do what your looking to do.

no hdr allowed for the calendar

So the picture has to be unedited. No playing with light, contrast or anything like that?

you can edit it just dont go crazy with it

3. Pictures cannot be edited beyond improvement of clarity, no photoshopping stuff into the pic. (Yes I acknowledge that I did poorly on enforcing this last year, it won't happen this year)

hdr is beyond clarity in my books.

Challenge accepted.

an HDR done properly is a great image allowing for the greatest amount of detail. the HDR's that are taken to the extreme's aren't my taste either.

and was just telling the guy that the only way to get the image he wanted would be to do atleast a 3 bracket HDR shot.....

Thanks
This is the full version i have other cropped Versions of them out but can't see the whole
Car i might change it

well i submitted a pic, there's still a lot left of the month so if i find a nicer spot and get a better pic i'll change it but i'm kinda happy with this one, i been waiting to get to this spot for a while :lol:

http://a3.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot...34631926_o.jpg

should i submit this one instead?

Or should I try submitting this one? hahaha I got a couple good ones

http://imageshack.us/a/img593/478/powerplante.jpg

i cant decide first is this to shopprd,i just did color correction and de-noised since it was overcast when i took the pic
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Almost seems a little too CSI Miami
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...ps01bfdef3.jpg


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or abstract ?
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any thoughts?
https://www.cobaltss.net/forums/memb...3-57-13070.jpg

maybe something different?
https://www.cobaltss.net/forums/memb...-117-12031.jpg

some track fun....
https://www.cobaltss.net/forums/memb...75-n-13928.jpg
https://www.cobaltss.net/forums/memb...33-n-13929.jpg

iBoost: if you can see this: take a couple more shots like the one you have but in 16:9 not 4:3. And also retake that picture making sure you car isn't dead center in frame..usually makes it not very pleasing for the eye unless it's an up-shot or symmetric shot. I know you did it in the picture, but in case it was a fluke, try keeping your horizon at about 1/3rd up to guarantee a nice background and exposing your car properly. I really want you in the calendar, so good luck :twothumbs