Rolling Shots

[Tnwagn]

A few rolling shots from the weekend. Not to bad for a first try but I still have a lot of learning to do. C&C is more than welcome.

All shots were made with a D40 and it's 18-55mm kit lens in Shutter Priority mode.

1.


Exposure: 0.033 sec (1/30)
Aperture: f/3.5
Focal Length: 18 mm
ISO Speed: 1000

2.


Exposure: 0.033 sec (1/30)
Aperture: f/4.2
Focal Length: 26 mm
ISO Speed: 1600

3.


Exposure: 0.02 sec (1/50)
Aperture: f/3.5
Focal Length: 18 mm
ISO Speed: 640

4.


Exposure: 0.033 sec (1/30)
Aperture: f/4.5
Focal Length: 34 mm
ISO Speed: 360

5.


Exposure: 0.033 sec (1/30)
Aperture: f/3.5
Focal Length: 18 mm
ISO Speed: 1600

[minoreparations]

lookin good. both the pics and the car that is.

[jimy]

All those shots are sweet.

[cb7wagonPL]

makes me miss my wagon... nice shots tho. maybe slightly slower shutter speed to capture more motion.

[Brandoncb7]

They all look good but i'd have to say these two look the best to me. Nice wagon!

[Shadow1]

nice shots man. what were the settings you used?

[zelseman]

These are pretty good. Could use some more processing, but they arent bad at all.
Me like!

[CB7 Sleeper]

Wow, such a clean wagon.

And great shots.

[Tnwagn]

Thanks everyone!

makes me miss my wagon... nice shots tho. maybe slightly slower shutter speed to capture more motion.

I would like to go slower but I find that anytime I get below about 1/30 or so I can't get any clear shots of the car. Guess I need to find a smoother support vehicle to shoot from.

nice shots man. what were the settings you used?

Added all the settings to the first post.

These are pretty good. Could use some more processing, but they arent bad at all.
Me like!

If you have some free time and would like to, I'd like to see what kind of processing you think would look good. I tend to get in a rut about the way I PP my shots. Plus, it's hard to describe in words what you would do different in post. You can pull the originals from flickr.

[zelseman]

I dont think they really need that much work. The crops are weird, almost 1:1 square ratio. So:
Crop to 4:6 or similar ratio
Lighten the scene just a little bit(auto levels normally works for me)
Add some contrast
Bump the Saturation just a tad
Remove some of the background distractions(chopped off the top of the building)-takes time
Sharpen
Save

Ill run through it really quick.
I dont have lightroom 2 on this computer so its all with gimp so its probably not gonna be as good. Haha
Before:


After:

[accordtypeR]

Those are some great rolling shots bud...

[Tnwagn]

I dont think they really need that much work. The crops are weird, almost 1:1 square ratio. So:
Crop to 4:6 or similar ratio
Lighten the scene just a little bit(auto levels normally works for me)
Add some contrast
Bump the Saturation just a tad
Remove some of the background distractions(chopped off the top of the building)-takes time
Sharpen
Save

The crop was for the calendar, hence the odd size (but a good point non the less)

I avoided a bit of the contrast because I was loosing definition in the front bumper. The colors do look better in your edit however. I'll keep those points in mind in future edits. Thanks!