Aston Martin Vantage

[Josh Bear]

Dear All,

took a day off work today and after it became obvious I wasn't going to haul myself out of bed for sunrise I choose to go for a drive around Henley on Thames and associated country side.

Decided to use the 5d Mark 2 today since the Pen has been getting all my attention of late.

I have a few more here http://www.pbase.com/joshbear/aston_martin&page=all

and more that I have not yet processed I will update the thread when they are done.

I choose a B&W conversion for most as the colour of the car lends itself to this treatment. IMHO.

I hope you enjoy.

Best Regards

Josh

[Josh Bear]

Re: Aston Martin Vantage

Dear All,

I thought one in colour as well.

Best Regards

Josh

[Stephen]

Re: Aston Martin Vantage

All great photos of a great car Josh. I noticed on your PBase site you had applied some vignette to some and I think this works well. The last shot particularly needs some extra interest injecting into it to make it a bit more edgy. The B/W ones work but just lack that extra bit of ooomph that the car deserves.

[Josh Bear]

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Thanks for the guidance Stephen. Really appreciated. I get what you mean about oomph. I am struggling with post processing at the moment. There are loads of great books about photography and how to use Photoshop etc. But I have never found one that talks to post processing ideas.

A gap in the market if anyone has the time and skill.

I will go back and see if I can do these pictures more justice.

Thanks again

josh

[Stephen]

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Do you use Lightroom, I can't remember. I have found that I can get much of what I want by playing with the controls.

[Josh Bear]

Re: Aston Martin Vantage

hi

Yes, convert from raw to tiff in lightroom then move to elements 9 for anything else.

Best regards

Josh

[Bear]

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Great car Josh - They are all nice shots but I think the B&W treatment tends to minimise the impact of the shape by softening the panel transistions. DOn't know if I am explaining it well but the colour one works the best for me even though the car is almost monochrome itself. The derelict building setting is just a classic and it works.

[Pops]

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The colour one for me.
Can't help but wonder though who would be daft enough to park something so beautiful alongside a building that looks like its going to fall to bits at any time....

[Barr1e]

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I'll swop on of my lenses for the car as my old banger is approaching 12 years. She is still looking good but not as good as an Aston Martin.

I also prefer the one in colour. I wish my taking of cars was as good as yours.

Regards. Barr1e

[Josh Bear]

Re: Aston Martin Vantage

Thanks for the comments all

upon relection I am pretty disappointed with the post processing I did. I did not spend enough time looking at what could be done. So I am going back to the original raw files and starting again. Hopefully I will be able to produce something with impact.



Thanks again

Josh.