mcrow5's real life photos - VicDrift Round 1

thats wicked mate, very jealous! great shots for ya to create in game too!!

thanks guys!

just a couple of randoms i took today, both photoshopped.

and some more i touched up.

Nice ones.
With that little hut by the water, I reckon I'd push the exposure a bit longer, or use Curves in photoshop to make it a bit brighter. Since it's the point of interest of the photo it might look better. It's kinda tricky though, as you are trying to capture the darkness and hidden nature of the cabin.
Maybe like this:


Same for the black and white one. I like to shoot in colour and then use the channel mixer to convert to BnW afterwards. It means you can muck around with which "colours" are brightest in the BnW image.

Chris (OD)

i was bored, so i did a re edit of a favourite of mine.

bored once again!

seriously thinking about printing these ones.

middle one is a rippa!!

went back to the same gardens again today, went to a different one, but that was way to busy (i hate people in my landscape photos). anyway, getting better me thinks.

Where is that park Mcrow? Looks like a great place to take my motorx bike. The new Maxxis tyre I put on the other day would rip that virgin soil up in no time. I am sick of taking it to golf courses.

Paul wrote: Looks like a great place to take my motorx bike.
I am sick of taking it to golf courses.

up in the dandenongs, Alfred Nicholas Gardens.

Definite improvements mcrow5. That shot of the flower is really nice and sharp with great colour.
The landscape shots would look great really huge - so much detail.
@Paul - hahah, I took some photos of a park in Japan and all I could think of was how much fun it would be to fly through on my mountain bike. :-)

Chris (OD)

Very nice Mcrow! all you need is some scantilly clad women (yes multiple) in there and you can start doing up the OZFM Calendar hahah

and im in with my Banshee for ripping the hell outta that place, Paul, ill see your Maxxis and raise you with 2 of my own, only a little wider! haha

dad went go karting with the hsv club today, so i tagged along to take some photos. its harder than it looks haha! they go so fast and when they are that close (about 5 metres in front of me) it is so hard to get the cart in focus. it was my first try at motorsport photography, so they aren't the greatest.

Hey mcrow, looks good mate,
my MRs has the same prob taking pics when im riding the quad, i have no idea what settings she uses but shes says it hard to get it spot on when trying for that motion fell within the pic.

i know what my problem was, my shutter speed was to slow, need to make it faster so that the whole cart/ person is in focus. funnily enough, i found it easy to get them in the photo, just not in focus 100%. luckily i figured this out this weekend, got the V8's at sandown this weekend so im all sorted for that

It's a fine balance - as you want to have quick enough shutter speed to capture the person, but slow enough so that you get motion blur on the background as you pan. Off the top of my head around 1/100 or 1/200 will still blur as you pan, but should keep the target sharper. This varies with the speed of the target of course.
Also if you increase the f-stop you'll get a larger depth of field so less hassle with getting the focus right. But, increase f-stop = slower shutter, so you may need to alter the ISO aswell.
Take lotsa photos and take note of what settings work.

Chris (OD)

Couple of my wifes efforts at shutter speed shots, shes not bad at em.
Would be better pics if i didnt have to lift my 92kgs, ....yes i have snapped a rear shock already!











I like the one without the effect, hahaha

Consider your thread officially highjacked with my pics Mcrow!!! hehe

i can easily delete them...........mwahahahah!

so i was "sick" today, so i went to sandown to see the first day of the v8's unfortunately it is without doubt, a horrible track to take photos on. pit straight only anyone? arghhh! and with the barries, only seeing half the car, i found two spots i could get the whole car in. not much fun

anyway, photos may be up tonight (taking forever to download, god damn slow programs, doesnt help taking 200 photos though).

Day 1 of the V8's at Sandown, worst place to take photos of the cars on the track. not many good ones haha!

Sandown day 2

HEy mcrow wasnt sure where to put these but mostly wanted to show you so dropped in here.

Shots the Mrs took whilst i was racing.









not sure how they will turn out on screen

I was at Sandown too, got my name on the iRacing leader board they had there

nice, didnt even have a go at that.