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Thanx !!! You knocked it out of the park once again Tom!!!

 

^HA! That's me taking pictures on the other side of the Nitro Skeeter.

 

Thanks Tom, really nice pictures.
Kinda' like I'm at the show.

 

Just scrolled through the whole ten pages which makes about three times I have scrolled through the thread and I can just say wow.

 

Hey Tom, Could you post up one of your pictures edited and un- edited and explain some of the tricks (skill) and time required to produce some of the images you share with us? I think I may not be the only one that would be interested in learning a little about the process and some may get a deeper appreciation for what it takes for you to share your photos the way you do.

 

Hmm...OK, I'll see what I can do.

This one has the obvious cropping. Working in Adobe Lightroom, I decreased the highlights in the sky separately to darken it, then I increased the highlights overall to add sculpture and definition to the car body lines. Then I brought up the shadow detail. Doing these adjustments tends to bring up saturation at the same time. That's OK, although I could have decreased the saturation just a bit. I should have selectively decreased the saturation on the blue truck in the background, but I didn't notice it until now .

 

Many times, I will darken the background to make the car stand out better, while de-emphasizing background, and clutter at the same time. However, for this one I had a car already dramatically lit by the setting sun, which did not reach the deep background so I had the perfect situation.....except for the shadow over the rear quarter. So I opened it in Photoshop and handpainted the shadows out. Photoshop does have great object-removing tools which, while they do help, hand painting is also necessary. I was a painter in my career, so this comes easily. Finally, I brought the saturation down a bit and opened up the shadows.

 

On this one, the after pic is shown first.

I purposely used a long lens because I like the perspective-altering effect it offers, which tends to make an unusual car like this even more unusual looking. My crop kept a lot of the trees. I lowered the highlights and brought up the shadows. I was not ambitious enough to paint out the girl's head, Impala trunk lid and chair, which would have consumed a lot of time.

 

This Buick shot is pretty much out of the camera except for cloning out objectionable items. I hand-cloned in Photoshop for the wall and used Photoshop's automatic "content-aware fill" to eliminate the rope cleanly (although some hand-paint touch up is necessary.

 

Thanks so much for all the great coverage.
YOU THE MAN !

 

Thanks for getting rid of the white ropes. I HATE the white ropes.

 

WOW! Tom thanks for the insight! I play around with photoshop some (I'm not very talented at it) but you have given me a few tips I may be able to incorporate in my efforts. Thanks for the super pictures also! Joe

 

Thanks for the tutorial. Loved all the photos. Thanks again. Snowman

 

Thank you Tom! I have an old photo shop program that I use to probably 1000th of it's potential. I will have to try some the editing tips that you gave us today.

 

TOM KOOL PICS THANK YOU for your TIME

 

Thank you for these pictures.
Wanted to attend but shattered my shoulder and that keeps me home.


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