best pic ive ever taken

[asubimmer]

you should PS your pics a little to clean them up ;)

Original


PSed

[dmoffitt]

PSed

other than over-sharpening it and cranking the saturation after trying to fix the white balance.... :dot:

I can't say I agree w/ everyone shitting on your car, but that bumper is pretty fugly, and that's brought out even more by those fog lights. nice locations though, too bad about the dirt, that's frustrating (been there, done that)

[mtechnik]

does any part of my car look half-way decent? damn i didnt know my car was that ugly

Dont worry bro, ur car isnt the worst off. Bit by bit i'm sure you'll get her to come around.

[asubimmer]

other than over-sharpening it and cranking the saturation after trying to fix the white balance.... :dot:

lol I was just PSing it to look like a better pic not to put crazy effects on it. if you think the original looks better than lol fine :loco:

[KangamangusDriver]

Wow, Did I miss out on the critic and proffessional photographer train??

Pictures look great!
Really enjoy the first one!
E30, foliage, river. Nice!

[M42Technik]

the stock parts.

Man, the hater squad comes out in full force.

The front bumper isn't so amazing, sure, but the car looks fine to me. Do what you like.

[Teaguer]

Damn , tough crowd . :D


But yes I too am soory about your bumper . :(

And even though the wheels could be decent ..they just look waay too tiny .

What are those , 13's ? :D

[Gr00v3]

i'll disagree with dan on the statement that these pictures lack composition. this first one just needed a few tweaks to be a little more interesting.

asubimmer, your take on the ps route just took a wrong turn somewhere, here's my take on the situation.

first of all, your car is black. black cars are generally more difficult to photograph because your camera's meter will do one of two things. 1) it will compensate thinking that the black car has no light coming off of it, therefore overexposing the photo and blowing out your hilights. or 2) it will compensate for the brightly lit background and leave no detail for your subject, which was the case here. if it were me, i would've done two exposures, one for the car and one for the background and then mashed the two together in photoshop for an evenly lit scene or get a reflector and shine as much light as i could at the front to the middle of the car.

i ps'ed your photo a bit, it was a 5 minute job. i layered off your car, brought up the values in your car and then lowered the values in the background. if i had taken more time with it, im sure it would've been nicer looking, but like i said, it was just a 5 minute job. i also cropped it to get rid of the negative space in the foreground. your car is already black, why do you need a black road in front of it? at least this way, everything has nice warm colors and then your black subject on the bottom right. your eyes lead toward it right away due to the shift in colors.

[KangamangusDriver]

That looks good joe!

[Rennsport]

the wheels are 15's. i dont have a thick wallet (college student) so i dont have tons and tons of money to poor into my car. Thanks KangamangusDriver, M42Technik, and Gr00v3 for bringin my spirits back up. and dan... thanks for giving your honest opinion

[mtechnik]

I thought i lifted ur spirits up too?.............
Cause that was my intention

[Rennsport]

yea, you did, i missed your name. sorry,
thanks!

[mtechnik]

That's more like it... LOL

[quillbro]

Bumper is the lame...

I love the color though... and thanks for the shots:)

[Kruzen]

bumper is sagging or something it looks like

the rest is nice though