Quote from teaz-R :

I do own a Sony DSLR and a G25. I'm also a professional photographer.
I used the maximum ISO setting for a reason (to have excessive amounts of noise, or grain as it would have been in the film days)

A Sony A100 to be exact, shot at 300mm, 1/320 second shutter speed, f/5.6 aperture, and ISO1600 in aperture priority mode with +1.0 exposure bias, at least for the pedal shot. No, not everyone gets it, but many of us do

Join the thread that does get it...

Camera Showoff thread

I do like the 3rd shot you posted of the pedal. Can't say I like the grain. Digital noise just isn't the same as film grain and doesn't give the same feel, no offense. The "grain" does look good specifically on the subject, but doesn't come out well in my eyes with the blackened out background. Over all, quite a nice shot.

Er.... Sam, could you please replace the picture of your crotch with something else? It's a bit disturbing....

Migz, after you RTFM, check out these links that I found extremely helpful when I first got into the photography thing a little bit more than just shooting a little autoshooter.....

Shortcourses - Very good.

Digital Camera Help - They either changed this, or it's the wrong site. This isn't what I was looking for...

Beyond that, if you want some reading material for the next year, check out the list of links I created. I haven't even finished organizing them yet... Here

On the photos of the VW, was it sitting in heavy shadow from the buildings? I wonder because of the settings of many of them. I am seeing ISO 400, f/3.5 aperture, and shutter speeds of 1/6 to 1/15. I find that very odd and the only thing I can figure is that the car was sitting in very dark shadow from the surroundings. My camera is not all that capable, but I think I would have been using ISO100, f/3.5, and a much faster shutter speed of 1/200 or so judging by the way these look.

So, finish the RTFM, check out the link above as well, and get that thing out of auto exposure! Having an expensive dSLR and using it as a point and shoot is a crime!

Any questions along the way, do not hesitate at all to post up. Plenty of folks with a lot of knowledge on here. I myself have pretty good grasp of the knowledge, just lack the equipment to put the knowledge to good use.

I don't shoot RAW, I can't, don't have the capability. But I do read quite a bit on the photography forums.....

I think I've read where Photoshop doesn't support some of the older RAW formats. I don't see where you report what Sony camera you are using, nor which version of PS either.

There should be a download section to download plugins/updates/drivers/whatevertheycallthem for specific RAW file types. I'm not sure if this would only work for "legit" copies of Photoshop or not (not that I'm suggesting or accusing anything here, but probably 90% of Photoshop users are not legit....) I think I remember reading that the RAW file type updates only work on registered versions of Photoshop.

Thanks for that, Jason. I just about lost it! :chairfall

Er... that wasn't exactly what I was getting at with calling out for Bob...

Spankmeyer, you always appologize for your watermark. They don't look too big at all. Quite unobtrusive actually.

My kids would love that balloon. We just picked up Bolt on DVD and they can't stop watching it. I enjoyed it as well, just not enough to watch it 300 times a day for the past week,

Alright alright, gone far enough....

Bob?

NFS1 was the first racing game I played on my computer (ignoring Pole Position and Stunts on the C64, which wasn't my computer) and I used an analog joystick and later on, my Thrustmaster T2 wheel.

The tooth fairy is real. It is real in the minds of millions of 4-5-6 year olds around the world.

Girp Driver lives around the Denver, Co area.

That's $2000 I have coming to me now

Grip Driver posted previously in the "post your car" thread a link to Craigslist in Denver. Also, posted in the "what's your internet speed" thread which gave a server listed in Denver.

Hmmmm.....

I've got me a couple of buddies and some time off work coming up. Think maybe I'll take a little ride out to Denver. :mischievo

Toddler in Texas was also a mexican family who came to Texas to get care. Something the media doesn't let on over here for the sensationalization.

If he hurries before the rates change, I'll let him by with $964.45 (24 GBP=$35.55 USD)

Quote from boosterfire :

There's one other thing I note from those comparison pictures, though. The lightning in LFS is really a big issue. Look at the dash in LFS and IRL, there's really a huge lightning difference.

If you go that route, take note of the sky in both images as well. You can see in the photograph that the camera was metering the inside of the vehicle, thus the interior is correctly exposed and the sky is blown out way too bright. In the image from the CMX viewer, the sky is a beautiful blue with a proper exposure, had this been a photograph by a camera, and the interior of the car is dark or underexposed. It is depicted exactly how it should be to be "photorealistic."

Of course, the eye doesn't exactly work that way as we have a far greater dynamic range than a camera does, but comparing the two images, it is exactly how I would expect it to be.


LFS screenshot Image adjusted (rough levels adjustment in Photoshop) to match exposure of the outside environment to the photographed image....

Quote from GrIp DrIvEr :

I was being sarcastic. I just thought it would be a little bit difficult, but I was wrong :doh:. The internet is a powerful tool.

Sorry grip driver, you are an american and us americans don't understand sarcasm, remember? I'm still waiting.....:Kick_Can_

Quote :

@Danny LFS - An SHO? Thats like putting a bodykit on your Grandmas Cadillac.

An SHO is much more than a factory body kit.



Should I create a new thread with a poll asking whether the LFS community thinks that Grip Driver should pay up or not?

Should have killed that mother f'er, DWB. One was in my shoe last night as I was putting them on to let the dog out and got me right in the ankle. Hurt all night.

Thanks guys. The Bad Jokes thread didn't give me enough incentive to figure out who Lady Gaga was. Now after googling a little to figure it out, I understand the "Poke her face" joke.

How on earth anyone makes any money with music like that is beyond me.

Quote from scania :

can't load.....

Read the directions.....

This is pretty cool. I've never tried it until it was bumped recently. I'm wondering, is this how rFactor feels as well? I never tried rFactor on account of I wouldn't be able to do anything but single player because of poor computer specs and wasn't going to pay for racing AI.

The force feedback is terrible. It just feels like centering spring is turned on in my logitech drivers, which it is not. If this is suppose to "show off" what a BMW M3 is like, they failed tremendously. All it does for me is understeer straight into the walls and there is no way I would buy a car that expensive just to understeer everywhere.

It is a bit fun though. I've never had any PC sim or game that had Nordscleife on it, thus I know exactly nothing about the track. Oh, I guess I have done maybe 2 laps with NR2003, but that's it. The clock reset after 10 minutes of me trying the first lap. Then I ventured into the link provided previously and started downloading other tracks and playing around. I have to give Nords. another go.

I put a handful of AI on the track with me, about 5 is all my PC could handle if that. Wow, we thought LFS' AI drivers were bad. These guys were terrible.

Downloaded Mid Ohio. I've been dying to drive that track ever since I use to race with Indycar Racing 2. I LOVE that track, and it didn't work! Grrrrrr!!!!

One thing that is terrible is the FOV. A shame that I like to sit in the cockpit, but hate driving from the back seat with the dashboard miles ahead of me. Is rFactor FOV the same? I couldn't move it up nearly enough (I use FOV 50 in LFS to get an idea of what is wrong here.)

Last edited by mrodgers, Sun 26 Apr 2009, 01:40.

Quote from Scrabby :

Are you sure that picture isn't mirrored? It's virtually impossibe for you guys to take a right turn..can't...
Sorry that picture is photoshopped

Nope, STF figured out our secrets.....

Quote from STF :

Not if you`re coming the other way!

He was looking the opposite direction on a one way road for the shot. All our roads are one direction to eliminate all problems associated with right turns.

You do have some seriously cool light down there, DWB. I like that overgrown abandoned roadway, or what ever you would want to call that.

To all you UK/EU folks, look at DWB's last photo, the one with the road. Follow that road through the photo with your eyes. Follow it..... follow it..... THERE! See that way in the distance? See what that is? It's a TURN! And it turns RIGHT! HA HA!!!!! See, we do have turns on our roads, and not just left ones!

You guys import used cars?

Photojournalist shots by 5 year old Emma....



Serious problems ensued in the Rodgers' household the other day. My youngest daughter's little pets were peacefully playing about their little house and playground.....




Suddenly, a horrendous floor shaking pounding could be felt as my older daughter Lauren's "pets" appeared.....




Emma's pets were trapped with nowhere to run. They were surrounded.....




The survivors were defenseless and could only watch and listen to the shrill little screams of fear as their friends were carried off to who knows where.....

Quote from Shadowww :

My dream car can fly

Screw a flying dream car and screw a big dollar dream car. If I want to fly, I want to actually fly. My money would go for an ICON A5. It would be like having my RC airplane as a real airplane.

GrIp DrIvEr, reneging on what you say, bad, very bad. Still waiting for your PM.

Quote from jelston :

45,000 miles but had a brand new engine put in at 42k.

New engine at 42k? That's not too good, you know...

So, what, all you gun banning freaks want to ban nail guns now? If it were a regular hand gun, you all would be crying how they should be outlawed.

Quote from GrIp DrIvEr :

i would give anyone $1000 if they guessed exactly where this picture was taken and gets it right.

How do you plan on the $1000 payoff? I won't accept a personal check. A money order would work quite well. I can send you my mailing address.

The for sale ad

Reverse phone number lookup

Location: Coral Springs, Florida

Thank you for the $1000. Please PM me for mailing address.