Vrrrooom!

[hoodmeister]

I wandered out last night and ended up shooting a couple of mates cars... All night. It was pretty good, especially as I've not taken shots of cars before!
I should say at this point that cars don't interest me.. In the slightest. As such, my mates chaved up motors are no more appealing to me than a clapped out old banger. And again in turn, I don't really know what I'm doing
I found lighting conditions in most places we visited to be somewhat awkward.. So most of the shots are HDR, which in turn means no EXIF. All shots were taken with a D70 and (all bar one or two) with a Sigma 15-30mm lens.

The weather was a bit dodgy, too - lots of the shots have bizzare light splodges // smudges from rain droplets. There's a fair bit of flare, too - although for the best part I don't mind it..

Here's a few shots :

The whole gallery can be found here. There are about 25 pics.
I know that there are people here who do lots of motor shooting and whatnot... So and comments, critique & tips are much appreciated :>

 

[hoodmeister]

Not a fan of the cars but great pictures, I think the oversaturated vibrant colours really suit the HDR processing

I don't like them, either (the cars) O__O

The very heavy saturation was entirely intentional.

There ya go Fstop11

 

[hoodmeister]

If you get in a tiz about noise then don't touch a D70 - the 350D ****** all over it as far as noise levels go.
personally if a situation merits a high ISO, or even ISO 1600 and forced underexposure (to be brought back up in RAW processing, making a rough equiv. to ISO 3200 // ISO 6400) then I will use it, and am usually happy with the results. In short - I don't find noise to be an issue, but it is there, and if you hate noise, stay away from a D70. Or anything Nikon at the moment, really.

Take a close look at those shots, quite a few are pretty damn noisy in places!

I did try working without HDR, but just wasn't getting anything I was even vaguely happy with, I'm not good enough to work with the light!

The cars really are 'orrible, aren't they!

 

[hoodmeister]

what feels like too much sir? The lurid colours and heavy contrast?
I can certainly understand how many don't like this. For these shots, that's how I like it... But tbh, I don't like any of these photos - I look at them and think, "woo, a car".. Which makes it difficult to try and judge how others who are into their motors would prefer shots.

So aye, any elaboration on that would be much appreciated

danza ~ Really, if you hate noise, stay away from Nikons - you'll only end up being half happy with your shots.. Unless you shoot eclusively at ISO 200.

Tis', I suppose, also worth noting that the D70 produces almost totally luma noise and very little colour noise (looks more like film grain than "digital" noise) - it can be used to effect. But of course you can do that in PP anyway..

 

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"4 copy" is nearly a fantastic shot, just a shame about the alignment of the strip light. Other than that, I love it.

*EDIT*
Just caught CyKeys post, and you probably know what I think of the majority of the shots however I figure if you can't say nothing nice, don't say nothing at all on this board. Which explains my above post

It just reminds me of the liquidise filter in PS with +50 Saturation.

I asked my mate to park up there, cos' from an angle the lights looked straight.. Like **** were they!

/goes off to try the liquidise filter

 

[hoodmeister]

Well I wasn't expecting that

Just got some work off the back of this shoot - it's nice when the jobs come to you, isn't it?