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sirdaft1 wrote

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What and How do you create the sun flare? I've been trying within Lightroom and just cant get it to look right.

Ickdeep wrote

sirdaft1 wrote

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What and How do you create the sun flare? I've been trying within Lightroom and just cant get it to look right.

You can do this with a radial filter, but it doesn't always look quite right. It works best in pHotoshop.

Ickdeep wrote

What and How do you create the sun flare? I've been trying within Lightroom and just cant get it to look right.

Here's the video that I learned form, but you can use a radial gradient instead of a soft brush for scalability.

Ickdeep wrote

What and How do you create the sun flare? I've been trying within Lightroom and just cant get it to look right.

You can do this under Lightroom under Basic Edit

Ickdeep wrote

Sent it over; subject (BMW M3 Rolling photo RAW)

Hey there. I like the rolling shot a lot as well. May I take a stab at this as well?

jlo0109 wrote

Hey there. I like the rolling shot a lot as well. May I take a stab at this as well?

Of course, PM me your email.

Ickdeep wrote

Of course, PM me your email.

Hey there. Thanks for sharing the shot with me. Here's my quick edit and some recommendation.

I can see this photo was taken at 18mm with f/13 and ISO200 at 1/80 shutter. My humble guess is that it was getting dark quickly and you dropped your shutter speed to compensate the losing light. My future recommendation would be to mess with your aperture instead of your shutter, especially if you're not shooting still. Depending on the camera that you have, most of photos began getting blurry without using a tripot after 1/80. Since you are shooting in RAW, you can always boost the exposure afterwards. In this case, you're shooting with a wide-angle lens, with f/13 or f/9 you really won't see that much of a difference (IMO) and the extra f/stops will definitely give you better result without the risk of a blurred image; you can also work around this by messing with your ISO but this requires you to understand the type of sensor your camera has and what is the max. allowed before grain appears in your photo. Here's my humble edie:

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jlo0109 wrote

Hey there. Thanks for sharing the shot with me. Here's my quick edit and some recommendation.

I can see this photo was taken at 18mm with f/13 and ISO200 at 1/80 shutter. My humble guess is that it was getting dark quickly and you dropped your shutter speed to compensate the losing light. My future recommendation would be to mess with your aperture instead of your shutter, especially if you're not shooting still. Depending on the camera that you have, most of photos began getting blurry without using a tripot after 1/80. Since you are shooting in RAW, you can always boost the exposure afterwards. In this case, you're shooting with a wide-angle lens, with f/13 or f/9 you really won't see that much of a difference (IMO) and the extra f/stops will definitely give you better result without the risk of a blurred image; you can also work around this by messing with your ISO but this requires you to understand the type of sensor your camera has and what is the max. allowed before grain appears in your photo. Here's my humble edie:

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Looks soo sweet.

I was shooting with my Canon t3i. I know super old but haven't had the funds to upgrade. I will say that this shot was very blurry to begin with. Thanks for the recommendations!

Here was a quick and simple composite photo that I did for a friends car.

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before1 by Bruce Han, on Flickr

before2 by Bruce Han, on Flickr

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Edited by Bruce Han, on Flickr

I only started post-processing my photos recently:

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Editing some recent rollers.

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Ickdeep wrote

Editing some recent rollers.

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Very nice! It would be very easy to paint out those poles!

jmg wrote

Very nice! It would be very easy to paint out those poles!

What program do you use for that? I havn't really learned how to do that yet

Ickdeep wrote

jmg wrote

Very nice! It would be very easy to paint out those poles!

What program do you use for that? I havn't really learned how to do that yet

Photoshop. YouTube some tutorials. Very easy to do

Ickdeep wrote

Editing some recent rollers.

jmg wrote

Very nice! It would be very easy to paint out those poles!

Photoshop Clone tool and Stamp healing tool are some of your best friends.
I generally always clean up anything that is distracting. i.e. the poles, the major reflections on the car, and anything that looks like its protruding from the car.
I hope you dont mind that i stole your photo to edit, say the word and I will take them down.

fKEgzUi by Shawn Rankin, on Flickr

Q60edit by Shawn Rankin, on Flickr

Also, whats up jmg! SHAWNoftheREX from over on NASIOC, making my way over to the M3 world. Waiting on the arrival of my Imola f80 ZCP. Recognized your screen name right away lol

NTMR_M3 wrote

Also, whats up jmg! SHAWNoftheREX from over on NASIOC, making my way over to the M3 world. Waiting on the arrival of my Imola f80 ZCP. Recognized your screen name right away lol

Welcome!! Nice pickup! Is it on the boat yet?

jmg wrote

NTMR_M3 wrote

Also, whats up jmg! SHAWNoftheREX from over on NASIOC, making my way over to the M3 world. Waiting on the arrival of my Imola f80 ZCP. Recognized your screen name right away lol

Welcome!! Nice pickup! Is it on the boat yet?

Yes sir! Should be landing in Southern CA today actually

NTMR_M3 wrote

jmg wrote

NTMR_M3 wrote

Also, whats up jmg! SHAWNoftheREX from over on NASIOC, making my way over to the M3 world. Waiting on the arrival of my Imola f80 ZCP. Recognized your screen name right away lol

Welcome!! Nice pickup! Is it on the boat yet?

Yes sir! Should be landing in Southern CA today actually

I still remember my first time sitting in my virgin M3! Those first 1200 miles are going to be hard!

NTMR_M3 wrote

Also, whats up jmg! SHAWNoftheREX from over on NASIOC, making my way over to the M3 world. Waiting on the arrival of my Imola f80 ZCP. Recognized your screen name right away lol

A few of us made it over her from NASIOC. We all grow up sooner of later

jmg wrote

I still remember my first time sitting in my virgin M3! Those first 1200 miles are going to be hard!

I am NOT looking forward to it. Its not a DD either as we have a GLE63S grocery getter, so the miles are going to be slow to go up.

thasuperdude wrote

A few of us made it over her from NASIOC. We all grow up sooner of later

Yeah, i hear you. It is becoming a shit show over there. Nothing but hatred and 45 degree wheels. I still have the WRX as well, but RARELY post over there anymore.