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my sensor is now clean... i bought this kit:

http://www.qualitycamera.com.au/product_in...roducts_id=1351

and it worked perfectly

6th May 2008 - 07:05 PM  Reply  Quote

As my wireless triggers are yet to turn up...ive been playing around with some of my pictures in photoshop

Before:
straight from the camera as JPG...didnt touch anything...



After:
little play around in both light room and photoshop...i luv the intense colours



ok let me know your thoughts??? too much playing??

8th May 2008 - 04:30 PM  Reply  Quote

Nice colours, it really makes the car pop. I do prefer the original though, it's more subdued.

Also, watch out for posterization in the gradients of the clouds its pretty noticeable in the edited shot. When working with 8bit JPEGS you have to be really careful with editing too much - there's not a lot of color information to play with (hence the posterization)

8th May 2008 - 05:44 PM  Reply  Quote

thanks chris..i didnt notice that in the clouds before until you mentioned it maybe ill have to start shooting in raw and get some ore memory cards

8th May 2008 - 06:26 PM  Reply  Quote

yea definitely shoot in raw, it makes a huge difference when it comes to fine tuning your photos (exposure, white balance etc.). Once you get the hang of it it actually makes things easier too.

8th May 2008 - 06:28 PM  Reply  Quote

yeah i use to... its just that it takes ages to upload say 2000 pictures onto my pc

8th May 2008 - 07:06 PM  Reply  Quote

oh true, once I went raw I could never go back, but I can see why it'd be different with motor sport photography. I guess you could always take a few shots in raw+jpeg mode and see if it's worth going back to shooting raw.

8th May 2008 - 07:15 PM  Reply  Quote

I have found myself shooting raw for motorsport just isn't worth it takes up far too much room on your cards and theres no huge advantage i mean for photoshoots etc it would be great but motorsport stuff ain't that technical in an editing sense, well not for me anyway.

9th May 2008 - 08:04 AM  Reply  Quote

yea, I guess it's only important if you plan on processing the image a fair bit.

9th May 2008 - 09:44 AM  Reply  Quote

yeah, thats the big thing... the average punter would be happy to see the normal jpeg i posted...but i think magazines and stuff want something that pops... who knows.. it wouldnt of been a porblem in that pictures if i had an ND filter over the lenses...as i had to lower the exposure in lightroom after quite abit due to the slow shutter... i have an ND filter now and im going to try it out this sunday and see how it goes..

9th May 2008 - 12:30 PM  Reply  Quote

good luck with it, I'm interested to see how level with the horizon you can stay with it

9th May 2008 - 01:17 PM  Reply  Quote

haha ....nah i wont be bring out the grad one...the track doesnt suit it dont get much sky...the next wakfield day ill give it a try... im going to try and bust out some 1/30 drift pans....so the ND filter will stop it from being overexposed

9th May 2008 - 03:26 PM  Reply  Quote

glad ur happy matt

should be good to see your pics once u get ur triggers

9th May 2008 - 03:35 PM  Reply  Quote

So should have got a Hoya Polariser rather than ND filters although ND rock for arty plus landscape shots

9th May 2008 - 06:04 PM  Reply  Quote

hahah... dont you worry lance ones coming in the mail

9th May 2008 - 07:04 PM  Reply  Quote

cant wait to see the results

10th May 2008 - 09:03 AM  Reply  Quote

playing around with the 50mm



too much aperture and i cut the ear off lol..

10th May 2008 - 08:11 PM  Reply  Quote

Also the eyes are a little out of focus for my liking

10th May 2008 - 09:42 PM  Reply  Quote

Yeah, the eyes should be the focal point. Would've been nice at 2.4 or 2.8.

I love this little lens, I keep it on more than my 17-85!

11th May 2008 - 09:24 AM  Reply  Quote

Nah the aperture is good, just the focal point needs to be changed imo

11th May 2008 - 02:18 PM  Reply  Quote

thanks guys...here is a teaser from today drifto day...id have to say this is probably the best drifto shot i have taken

11th May 2008 - 10:26 PM  Reply  Quote

Nice! go with some saturation on that one.

12th May 2008 - 08:05 PM  Reply  Quote

nice shot.

13th May 2008 - 08:00 AM  Reply  Quote

i look on a good screen and its way to dark... il fix it up when i get home and post some more up

13th May 2008 - 12:52 PM  Reply  Quote

It looks brilliant, don't get me wrong..

Maybe I'm too far involved in the PP and not ever letting a shot be in it's 'neutral' state.

On my monitor it may need a bit of a brighten, and some contrast, and saturation-desat on BG.. and some burning

DAMN IT!

13th May 2008 - 05:21 PM  Reply  Quote

ok here is 15 shots from the day...pretty happy with them...i think they define my style of shooting ok these where taken with with a canon 350d with 55-250is lenses... anyway i hope you like and would luv CC be as harsh as you like

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You can also find around 170 of these shots in my flickr gallery:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/matthewmead/s...57605030198190/

also be sure to check out my website for more of my work:

http://www.matthewmead.net

thank you

13th May 2008 - 07:17 PM  Reply  Quote

# 2 & # 13 really do it for me for some reason?

14th May 2008 - 06:31 AM  Reply  Quote

13 is awesome!

14th May 2008 - 06:53 AM  Reply  Quote

thanks guys,

i had a big day on Monday, i went down to canberra for Test day for the Cusco WRX's which are competeing in Asia Pacific Rally championship... here are two pictures from the day... these are probably two of the worst that i took....as the rest will be used for an article in "the Circuit" magazine.



this one is pretty epic:



Also i have some massive news... ill be shooting for Autosalon this weekend at compak attack drag racing...pretty excited and nervous

15th May 2008 - 03:43 PM  Reply  Quote

congrats on autosalon. love the pics nice work

15th May 2008 - 06:20 PM  Reply  Quote

Some pictures from the last Initial Drift day were featured on the Speedhunters Blog. Speedhunters is setup to showcase the world modified car scene, which i think is truly amazing and i think the blog will be really successful.

A link to the article can be found here:

http://speedhunters.com/archive/2008/05/21...park-north.aspx

The Speedhunters blog is updated regularly so be sure to check back:

http://speedhunters.com/Default.aspx

22nd May 2008 - 04:02 PM  Reply  Quote

took some statics today...as my wireless trigger are yet to turn up i compromised and used the test button and sprayed the car with multiable flashes over a long exposure..

anyway here we go









let me know what you think

24th May 2008 - 12:52 AM  Reply  Quote

love the second one, how did you get that angle

24th May 2008 - 07:12 AM  Reply  Quote

tripod out the hatch with a 4 secon exposure

24th May 2008 - 10:32 AM  Reply  Quote

^ hahah ghetto set.

hot photos dude got some real good skills esp for 350D. such a hot camera though loved it!

- Casey

24th May 2008 - 11:11 AM  Reply  Quote