mcrow5's real life photos - VicDrift Round 1

yeah go for it

Looking forwards to mcrows attempt, but I reckon making sure the blur doesn't go over any of the racers would be a good start. Keep them sharp and blur out the crowd and trees. Should look ok.

Chris (OD)

here's my attempt at it




and as OD suggested, all riders in focus (mostly)

this weeks, had an absolute blast yesterday. first i went to the calder park drag races, and then coming home i noticed that the Birrarung Marr ferris wheel is back!! YES ITS BACK!! so i had to go and take photos of it at night. anyway these are my 3 favourites of the day (i cant pick just one haha)


_MG_6048 by mcrow5, on Flickr


_MG_6005 by mcrow5, on Flickr


_MG_5980 by mcrow5, on Flickr


im getting good at this panning thing

Love that Ferris Wheel! Awesome.

+1
the ferris wheel shot

ferris wheel and the gtr shots are getting canvased very soon, as well as two more.

that GTR pic has shot up to my most viewed on my flickr, 61 views in a week. stoked with that. previous best is at 53 in a couple of months. and that ferris wheel one got me my first comment

no photos for this week got food poisoning on friday night. saturday night from 2am onwards was me throwing up every 30 mins until 10. then the rest of the day was on the couch. same thing happened yesterday, and im still not 100% today. eh, ive posted more than 1 photo for a couple of weeks now, im off the hook.

this weeks effort, the sunset was no where near as good as i was hoping it would be.


_MG_6067 by mcrow5, on Flickr

i was going over some of my old photos, got to the folder of my first trip doing sunsets. found these two.


_MG_4587 by mcrow5, on Flickr



_MG_4626 by mcrow5, on Flickr


i love the second one.

yeah, that colour is gorgeous! Nice one.

thanks mate, the original sucks and is really quite dull. but i liked the composition and the clouds so i went into photoshop and did quite a bit to it.

You got some serious talent, mcrow

thanks mate, much appreciated.

going to go and buy some more filters today, and then tonight, sunday night and monday night im going down to the beach

tonights efforts, not to bad i reckon. and yes its almost the same spot as all my other beach photos haha! but this ones about 1 minute drive further up the coast


_MG_6169_small by mcrow5, on Flickr



_MG_6156_small by mcrow5, on Flickr

Love that star rotation in the top one, but the rocks in the bottom make for a great foreground. Nice clean photos for a 3min exposure!
I have some cool shots from my old film camera doing like 2-3 hour exposures. I wanted to do longer, but the batteries kept running flat and the shutter would close. argh - need to go to the old manual cameras with no batteries!

cya,
Chris (OD)

top effort Mcrow, love how those rocks are floating .
well done mate

OctarineDream wrote:Love that star rotation in the top one, but the rocks in the bottom make for a great foreground. Nice clean photos for a 3min exposure!

i was thinking about removing it to be honest, there is another 1 in there though. FIND IT!! haha.

TEEROY 34 wrote:top effort Mcrow, love how those rocks are floating .
well done mate

would i be cheating if i told you that was photoshopped in? haha! not the rocks, the motion blur.


but thanks guys, going back tonight, im hoping for some more clouds, this time in the sky and not just above the horizon.

here are tonights efforts. im having a hard time getting rid of the flare in the second one though, i have no idea how to clone it out (or even what the best way of doing it is).


_MG_6184_small by mcrow5, on Flickr


_MG_6194_small by mcrow5, on Flickr

hehe - leave it in and call it a "feature".
(an old programmers joke - without a manual how do you tell the difference between a bug and a feature?)
You could try using the band-aid thingy (healing brush tool), but I reckon it will be pretty hard going/fiddly. So, leave it in and enjoy it.

I reckon that first one could do with some more exposure on the rocks so we can pick out their features a bit more.

Chris

so im gonna be getting up at 5am to see this moon, not looking forward to it. once in a lifetime opportunity apparently.

these are only 5 minute edits, ill do my best to get rid of the noise after work tonight. enjoy.


_MG_6297_startrailsblackbackground by mcrow5, on Flickr


_MG_6301_tight_crop by mcrow5, on Flickr

nice


.....that's no moon.......it's a death star

haha, it did look evil when i was taking photos of it.

Dunno about once in a lifetime - I saw a blood moon about 4 years ago or so.
Great photos though - love the one with stars. Are they real stars (from a seperate photo) or are they just white arc lines drawn in? Looks good either way.

Chris (OD)

yeah they are real stars, just 2 photos blended into one. one 4 minute to get the trails, and the other one i copied and pasted the moon into the star trails one.

THAT THINGS OPERATIONAL!
CALL OFF THE ATTACK