Well, I'm a bit dissapointed. The lighting was awful, out of 50+ pics these are the only ones that turned out decent. I'm sure you guys are bored of seeing my pics by now, but I thought i'd share anyway :D

Edit: New pics are up, tinkered a bit more in photoshop (1:22am Saturday)
(original effect pics can be viewed here http://www.cleoent.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=114)

http://www.cleoent.com/forums/files/dsc_6653_184.jpg

http://www.cleoent.com/forums/files/dsc_6655_883.jpg

http://www.cleoent.com/forums/files/dsc_6663_650.jpg

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http://www.cleoent.com/forums/files/dsc_6674_834.jpg

http://www.cleoent.com/forums/files/dsc_6678_137.jpg

a few more

http://www.cleoent.com/forums/files/dsc_6688_973.jpg

http://www.cleoent.com/forums/files/dsc_6682_793.jpg

http://www.cleoent.com/forums/files/dsc_6691_727.jpg

http://www.cleoent.com/forums/files/dsc_6698_451.jpg

http://www.cleoent.com/forums/files/dsc_6708_660.jpg

http://www.cleoent.com/forums/files/dsc_6711_745.jpg

http://www.cleoent.com/forums/files/dsc_6712brsize_972.jpg

Much better IMO.

they aren't too bad. not really digging the filter tho. so which one did the donuts around the light post? :D

nice quiet erie low ilumination effect ,low light yellows do the pics justice... :cool:

I kind of like the sepia tones. Nice photos, what camera are you using?

Is that the oakridge parking lot?

they aren't too bad. not really digging the filter tho. so which one did the donuts around the light post? :D

No filter was used.

pics were taken with a nikon d70. The color (white balance) of the photo's is the best i could do with the lighting i had to work with. Very yellow/orangey lighting up there and not a lot of it.

The pics were taken on the roof of the oakridge parking lot :D

I don't think those are THAT bad. Looks kinda cool in some ways ^^

love the effect :D

got rid of the effect sorry fellas :)

Put up some more. Wife was bugging me to watcha movie with her (:rolleyes:) so i didn't get to tinker much, now with more time i got more of the effect i was going for...

Great pictures, big difference in looks if you ask me. Still like the S2000 but the RX8 is so damn sexy! :D

I am looking to upgrade my Fuji s7000 digicam, but I am still not sure I want to go dSLR, maybe the new s9000 from Fuji will make me happy, we will see.

I think those still look pretty cool in the untouched form.

I think those still look pretty cool in the untouched form.

I like them both too, but the newer ones are more along the lines of an actual representation of the cars colors :)

Great pics! I love the look of both cars. I hear people say how the 8 is the miata's big brother. I think the S2000 and 8 have much more in common tho and your pics are a joy to view. Thank you! :D

I like them..

Nice pictures

Very nice. :D

nice pictures... i took some pics of my 8 w/ an s2000 a while back and they came out pretty good. my 1 question is did you guys make those marks all over the parking lot there? ;)

nice pictures... i took some pics of my 8 w/ an s2000 a while back and they came out pretty good. my 1 question is did you guys make those marks all over the parking lot there? ;)

Nope, in fact i was kicking myself in the ass for picking the one light that had that crap all over it :(

love the pics, esp the 3rd one down with the s2k and the donuts

thanks, that was the idea, I wanted to try and follow the curve...

great pictures, and i actually really like the coloring in the pictures...especially the ones where you can see the neon signs in color in the background, but since it doesn't seem you wanted this effect, you didn't have your camera white balanced correctly. next time, manually white balance the camera in the light you are going to be shooting in with a piece of blank white printer paper. just make sure that the paper is mostly shadow free and fills the whole viewfinder. and if the lighting changes, white balance again.

great pictures, and i actually really like the coloring in the pictures...especially the ones where you can see the neon signs in color in the background, but since it doesn't seem you wanted this effect, you didn't have your camera white balanced correctly. next time, manually white balance the camera in the light you are going to be shooting in with a piece of blank white printer paper. just make sure that the paper is mostly shadow free and fills the whole viewfinder. and if the lighting changes, white balance again.

Close :p

I shot in RAW which allows me to set my white balance after the fact. I wasn't able to find a white balance that was able to neutralize the yellow lighting. Unfortunately the only remedy is to tinker in PS (which is what i did) or go and shoot under white lights. I wasn't able to find any white lights so i just did the best i could with the really bad orange/yellow lighting i had...

Btw- the pics posted now are the corrected ones (to me anyway), the older yellow ones are in the link provided.

you should be able to still whitebalance when shooting with RAWs...use the "preset" wb setting with a white source (piece of paper that i mentioned previously) under the lighting.

and while it is true that you can adjust the whitebalance with raws (and jpegs, like i attached), it is far more accurate, and less time consuming to set the wb correctly before shooting, and then do small tweaks as needed in post ;)

don't take this as critisism. its not. i really like the photos.

you should be able to still whitebalance when shooting with RAWs...use the "preset" wb setting with a white source (piece of paper that i mentioned previously) under the lighting.

and while it is true that you can adjust the whitebalance with raws (and jpegs, like i attached), it is far more accurate, and less time consuming to set the wb correctly before shooting, and then do small tweaks as needed in post ;)

don't take this as critisism. its not. i really like the photos.

Yeah in this case i set the white balance to AUTO on the d70, knowing I was using RAW i didn't care. Didn't take it as a critisism at all, but I dont think that woudl have helped in this case. :)

I'm not a fan of the black and white/gray/night vision mode you used

cut the photo mumbo jumbo - photos look sick