New old car pics
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Post by: Jas » Thu Jul 24, 2008 7:14 am
Hi Andy
Very nice pics I specially like the last one with the winding road in the background.
How did you get them so dynamic, my pictures seem so ?flat? compared to yours?
Very nice pics I specially like the last one with the winding road in the background.
How did you get them so dynamic, my pictures seem so ?flat? compared to yours?
Jannik
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Post by: Elanintheforest » Thu Jul 24, 2008 7:59 am
Great pics, and same question as Jas from me...what are these HDR tools?
Many moons ago when I first got into Elans, a mate had a Pistachio Sprint with the same wheels and, from memory, the same arches. He bought the car new in 1972, and had the mods done in the factory, before the car went on the road, not at the dealers.
Do you know of any similar history with this car? Just a thought that the factory may have been offering the package towards the end of the Sprint life to move on a few more cars! Or maybe your car used to be Pistachio
Mark
Many moons ago when I first got into Elans, a mate had a Pistachio Sprint with the same wheels and, from memory, the same arches. He bought the car new in 1972, and had the mods done in the factory, before the car went on the road, not at the dealers.
Do you know of any similar history with this car? Just a thought that the factory may have been offering the package towards the end of the Sprint life to move on a few more cars! Or maybe your car used to be Pistachio
Mark
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Post by: soggster » Thu Jul 24, 2008 8:12 am
Hello!
To get the photos to stand out, you need to take 3 photos of each picture at the same time, with the exposure setting at -1, 0, +1.
You can the use either photoshop to do it manually, or a product like 'Dynamic-photo HDR' which will do most of the donkey work for you.
Basically, you use all 3 photos in one picture, under exposed for the sky, normal for well lit, and over exposed for the things in shadow. This makes the clouds stand out rather than be over exposed, and the black shadow areas stand out rather than be under exposed. The sofware makes the stitching together much easier.
Cameras don't have the exposure range to compensate for this, unlike our eyes, so this method brings it all together.
As for the arches, I have all the bills for the car except for the first 3 years, and I don't have the bill for the arches, so either it was a factory mod, or very early in the cars life. I have investigated the paint, and I think it was always full red (no white bottom).
Cheers
Andy.
To get the photos to stand out, you need to take 3 photos of each picture at the same time, with the exposure setting at -1, 0, +1.
You can the use either photoshop to do it manually, or a product like 'Dynamic-photo HDR' which will do most of the donkey work for you.
Basically, you use all 3 photos in one picture, under exposed for the sky, normal for well lit, and over exposed for the things in shadow. This makes the clouds stand out rather than be over exposed, and the black shadow areas stand out rather than be under exposed. The sofware makes the stitching together much easier.
Cameras don't have the exposure range to compensate for this, unlike our eyes, so this method brings it all together.
As for the arches, I have all the bills for the car except for the first 3 years, and I don't have the bill for the arches, so either it was a factory mod, or very early in the cars life. I have investigated the paint, and I think it was always full red (no white bottom).
Cheers
Andy.
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Post by: soggster » Thu Jul 24, 2008 12:47 pm
Tawny Brown!!!!!
Genius.... No wonder it was painted red! I just had some Carnival red paint made up, and luckily it was a perfect match, so at least the stayed with an original colour.
Thanks for info!
I found this pic of a car in Tawny Brown. Is this really the colour? Must be a seventies thing, along with Burnt orange. I'm not going to put it back to it original colour either
I'm sorry if this is someone's car on here, but it's pretty ghastly, sort of a freshly broken cow pat colour to it. (no offence
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Genius.... No wonder it was painted red! I just had some Carnival red paint made up, and luckily it was a perfect match, so at least the stayed with an original colour.
Thanks for info!
I found this pic of a car in Tawny Brown. Is this really the colour? Must be a seventies thing, along with Burnt orange. I'm not going to put it back to it original colour either
I'm sorry if this is someone's car on here, but it's pretty ghastly, sort of a freshly broken cow pat colour to it. (no offence
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Post by: garyeanderson » Fri Jul 25, 2008 9:43 am
soggster wrote:AHA! Much better...less of the country pancake colour about it......
Please leave it red, as you say the others look more like brown mounds.
Gary
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