Hello to everyone on this forum - take a look at my pictures
 

Hi there,

My name is Tim and I am 31 years old and live in the United Kingdom.
I am a passionate amateur photographer and spend most of my weekends attending various events across the UK. Most of my time is spent photographing cars including both road going cars and cars used for Motorsport.

The Camera I currently use is an Olympus E500 Digital SLR which I bought in May 2006. Previous to this many of my photos were taken using my Canon EOS300V film camera.
I have enjoyed making the switch to digital as it means I can take lots more pictures and also means I can edit the photos once they are uploaded into my PC.

Please have a good look through my albums and be sure to post any comments in this thread.

I have recently attended the following events: -

Supercar Sunday

Ferraris
http://www.picturetrail.com/gallery/...89&uid=5139420

Lamborghinis
http://www.picturetrail.com/gallery/...71&uid=5139420

British Sportscars
http://www.picturetrail.com/gallery/...18&uid=5139420

Other Supercars
http://www.picturetrail.com/gallery/...50&uid=5139420

Auto Italia 2006

Ferrari Enzo and F40
http://www.picturetrail.com/gallery/...51&uid=5139420

Ferrari F430 and 360
http://www.picturetrail.com/gallery/...29&uid=5139420

Other Ferraris
http://www.picturetrail.com/gallery/...07&uid=5139420

Lamborghinis
http://www.picturetrail.com/gallery/...61&uid=5139420

Other Special Cars
http://www.picturetrail.com/gallery/...29&uid=5139420

Lamborghini Supercar Celebration

Lamborghini Murcielago's
http://timdunlop.zenfolio.com/p216712621

Lamborghini Gallardo's
http://timdunlop.zenfolio.com/p311026778

Lamborghini Diablo's
http://timdunlop.zenfolio.com/p501486851

Pagani Zonda F
http://www.picturetrail.com/gallery/...74&uid=5139420

(please click the link below the event name to view the album)

All of these photos were taken in the last 5 weeks, it has been a very busy time.

Hope you enjoy and I look forward to your comments.

Regards

Tim

Welcome abord! Don't have time to check everything out, but is there a trick or do we only get microscopic pics on that website? Is there a way to have the highres in there or not? Honestly, 600 pixels or so is a bit ridiculous to appreciate good car pics :bah:

Hi there,

On both of the websites I use if you click on the 'microscopic' pictures you will be shown a larger version.

Hope this helps.

Regards

Tim

What TT ment is hires like 1024*768 is a standart for JW and pics on your site are 600*somthn or so. Do you have bigger pics? :)

Hi there,

All of the pictures are taken using a digital SLR and are therefore high-res. I have uploaded them as smaller images due to the huge number of pictures and the sheer size of the pics. Each picture comes from my camera at 2mb and I take approx 200 at a time, it would take forever to upload them if I kept the standard resolution. I can post some at high-res if you wish, but I would need to know which ones.

I just wanted to give people an idea of the pics I take, my apologies if the small resolution is no good for you guys.

Regards

Tim

Welcome! and some nice pics you got there, well done :)

Well, we all use digicameras or SLR and we all resize our pics :D but one thing is resize them at 1024, 1280 or 1600 (my and others' case), another thing is to resize at 600 :( barely enough to understand what car is in the pics.
That said, if you have a 56k connection I can sure understand

photoshop rules the day....

use TT's photoshop guide here, and you'll see what we mean....

basically, i use 1600x1067 for the web, and save at the 7 setting to save on bandwith.

yep, but that's just if you have some time :wink:

I don't know how much takes to TT to edit one picture, I do it from 1 minute to 30 minutes (if I want supa pic :mrgreen: ). so the last meeting - 174 pics (see my signature) took me about 8-10 hours (didn't count it) including editting colours, levels, contrast, resize, blanking reg plate, sharpening, saving, renaming, uploading and putting here on JW :wink:

Welcome aboard. You have an impressive collection of shots, but I must echo what everyone here has said. You are correct when saying that they were high-res shots when taken, but once resized they lost that resolution and are now low-res. With such stunning shots being resized to such a small resolution, you lose so much of the detail. These cars demand to have every little detail seen in full glory. You can resize them to 1600 and still keep the bandwidth pulled from your site to a reasonable level. This is a site of enthusiasts and admirers and to lose so much detail pains us. Please don’t take what we have said the wrong way. We are happy to have another on board with a passion for these fine exotics. Please enjoy your stay.

Very true, but in this case the time used wouldn't have changed. When those shots were resized to their current size it simply would have been a matter of using a higher resolution.

I think what most of us do is, instead of uploading every pic we take, or close to that, and then resizing them to very small, we pick a few (well relative 'few' haha) of our very favorite pictures, and make them a large res (1600x1200 or something) and just upload those. If you do that, then you will use about the same bandwidth, and have nice big pictures for us...and in a sense only show your very best pictures. :D 8)

Really nice pics by the way dude, although there are so many its a little daunting to look at them all...another reason to cut down the number of pics you upload. ;)

And, I almost forgot, welcome to JW man! :D

Nice pics ... welcome to JW!!!

Welcome AF, Nice collection of pics, I would really like to see more of them. (but also larger versions)

Hi there,

Many thanks to those of you who have replied.
I have taken on board the remarks about picture sizes and will look at using these settings in the future.

I have uploaded one picture using the suggested settings, please click the thumbnail and let me know what you think.

http://img230.imageshack.us/img230/3...138e2sx.th.jpg

Regards

Tim

yep very nice pics ... welcome aboard :)

btw ... i noticed tht most of your pics are from the same angle ... 3 qtrs side 2 quarters front lol ... you ned to take pics from different angles :)

great picture AF!!!

but this picture is JUST resized and that's it, isn't it? it would be nice at least edit the colors, levels and some sharpening... then the picture will be awsome :wink:

btw do you use polarizing filter? it's a must have for a car enthusiast :wink: :good:

LOL, the guy wanted to share his pics and slowly we are brainwashing :D bigger, better editing, better framing, polarizer... :D

we just want to see the pics as they should be :mrgreen:

I know, we are too pampered :oops: :prr: :mrgreen:

yeah .. do you change your pamper everyday lol :lol: :P :lol:

nah, it's too expensive :lame: :mrgreen:

*SPAM*

lol soo you keep one on for over a week ... :mrgreen:

Smelly :mrgreen:

Hi there,

I spent quite a bit of time editing the image before I first uploaded it.
I have below included a link to the original photo I took. As you will see I have enhanced the photo's colours and brightness along with the removal of various items that interfered with the overall picture. These included a stray 4x4 at the back and the building over the hedge. I even went as far as removing the white lines off the road.

I have also included a link to a new revised picture that I have sharpened and played around with the colours. Let me know what you think ?

Original
http://img332.imageshack.us/img332/2...138g4aa.th.jpg

Newly revised image
http://img439.imageshack.us/img439/6...138f8do.th.jpg

Is the revised one better than the one previously posted ? and what suggestions if any do you guys have about ways I can improve the photo ?

I do not use a polarizing filter but will probably get one later this week as I have a photoshoot with a new Porsche Carrera GT planned for mid July and what to get the best photos possible.

Regards

Tim

The pictures is clearly much better when you run it through Photoshop! But I'm okay with that house and the lines in the road, I don't bother, but the pictures became much cleaner. Just a matter of taste...

One of the most annyoing things I've discovered shooting at daylight is the strong light, a polarizing filter is the photographers best friend!
I shot with a regular digi-cam Ixus 400 and my picture always get too bright when the car shines too much...

But hey, I'm just a noob when I comes to stuff like that, we got TT, dingo and alot of the others pro here!

Nice to have you onboard though, looking forward to see some of your pictures!

First of all, welcome! It's good we have another photographer on board who attends a lot of car events.

The revised Enzo pic is idd better than the original one. Finetuning the edited end result also involves a lot of personal taste. You can't please everyone. But I think we all like the fact the revised pic is more brighter and has more contrast.

You won't regret the purchase of a polarizing filter. I'm already looking forward to the pics of the CGT ;)

Hi there,

Here is another of my photographs from the Supercar Sunday event.

I love Murcielago's and Green is my favourite colour.

This photograph has been enhanced from the original in a similar way to the Enzo photo posted earlier.

http://img162.imageshack.us/img162/1...151b1lh.th.jpg

Regards

Tim

nice one!!!

the only thing you need now is the Polarizing Filter! :wink:

but PLEASE, don't buy any cheap one!!! I did and now I have one spare cheap and not well working at home and bought another one for the twice bigger price and really worthy :D

my advice > B&W Circullar polarizing filter F-PRO, or HOYA of simillar quality. it's really worth to invest into this piece of glas, just look around in this W.Y.S.T. section (TT, Dingo, Dani_d_mas > now 30cm_Penis :lol: , me and some other guys, like nthfinity) :wink:

and yes, I love this Lime green Murcie :love: !!! magwheel could be telling you pretty nice storries about this machine :wink:

so, now i'm just some other guy :P :fist: :wink:

ok, I editted that post a little :prr: :fuck: :P

Hi autofocus, nice pics you have there, many supercars WOW!! Welcome to JW!!

Thanks for posting a couple of high-res pics :D and nice to know you can edit your pics :D now, the aim wasn't really understanding if you were up to the task, but obtaining all those pics in high-res and good quality, that's it :D

So we got two, what about the rest? :fuck:

On a serious note, IMO as far as you improve framing, colors, contrast, sharpness and so on, it's ok and basically a must: removing the building behind the trees or the white lines is pointless imo (especially the white line) and just too much when you come home from a meeting or hunting day with 100, 200 or 300 pics :bah:

Welcome to JW, as other have said, some bigger pics would be nice :wink:

edit: nice ones, the ENzo and Murci 8)