Quote from de Souza :

Creepy Stuff

Quite impressive! You greatly captured the mood there, and I especially like how you worked out the wall textures. About the girl: At first sight I thought she was a doll! So, that speaks for her make-up.

Another quick shot ... Cheers, everybody!

The new Canon EF 50mm/1.4 arrived! What a great lens to play with!

Quote from Kyotee :

It's the vignette that I'm unsure about, yeah.

No editing apart from resizing, I assure you that. The vignetted look
derives entirely from the shadows under the bridge.

Maybe console heroes on Speed?

Imho LFS's driver seat position is absolutely spot on as you can see in this comparison I made a while ago. What more do you expect?

A little bump - you can addthe Raceabout - Ultimate Edition by smove if you like.

Thanks guys, much appreciated!

It seems like every once in a while the need to contribute a little bit to what still is the best racing simulation out there overcomes myself ...

With the intention to make the RAC a bit more desireable I upgraded it a little bit. It's got a more sophisticated and modern lightset as well as a highly detailed interior where purism comes across a hint of luxury.

In the package there's also an alternative file for all the people driving on the wrong, ahem, right side of the road with a corrected dashboard signature. Simply rename the file "RA_Parts_UK" to "RA_Parts".

And now, ladies and gentlemen, give the RAC the chance it never had!

Installation: Extract the file(s) into the "LFS\data\dds" folder, but remember to backup your old files before. Enjoy!

Last edited by smove, Mon 21 Oct 2013, 22:26.

Thanks guys. The credits for the reflections go to Lynce, though. I'm just working on the textures.

Raceabout Love [W.I.P.]
A little project I'm working on to make the RAC a bit more desireable.

Here are some of my pictures from this year's ADAC 24h race (and ADAC Classics, respectively) at the Nürburgring. I went a bit more experimental this time but I'm not quite sure about the outcome ...

Quote from amp88 :

Another set from Larkhall, shot last weekend. The weather was thankfully quite good; it started off slightly damp but was dry the rest of the day.

As always, I welcome any feedback and constructive criticism you can provide. Thanks for your time.

Good and clear pictures, seems like you're continually improving your panning shots. Maybe now it's time for the next step: Try placing your main object away from the middle and compose your pictures a bit more. And when shooting moving things, what about tilting your camera to some degree to emphasize dynamics even more?

I present you a birth out of boredom that – very un-German – totally lacks seriousness. I'm struggling to find a name for it, so I call it what it is: the Lada XR GT Hybrid Targa (slightly rusty, but tuned, polished, weight reduced, and GREEN, of course!), a true Frankenstein of the automobile world. Having played around a bit with LFS Tweak recently I discovered that I'm in need for a matching skin for the 7.0 litre monster engine I created before.

These are already too many words - here's the skin, just in case that somebody finds himself in the same dilemma ...

Hi folks,

I've got some spare G25 pedals + shifter in good condition and fully functional I'd like to find a new home for.

If there's anybody interested in buying these, I'll be awaiting your price offer via PM. Pickup would also be possible, if you are around the area of Frankfurt, Germany.

Cheers

Have you considered something like this? For rain it's cheap and practical at the same time.

Wow ... this is making me speechless. Good luck for you and may your problems be solved quickly and completely.

And after that, maybe, think about what at least for me would be the biggest motivation of all: the huuuuge fanbase you are having here at the forum!

Hope to see you!

Nice F40!

Just in case somebody has some old anaglyph glasses laying around ...

:eye-poppi

Quote from amp88 :

Hehe, great images and quote

I'm hoping that in the not too distant future I'll get to a stage where I can capture reasonably good panning shots (at least in terms of sharpness of the main subject) at a decent rate around 1/80-100th of a second (being intentionally non-specific with my terms there). Then I can start to work on going lower towards 1/25th or 1/20th to get that kind of look. At this point I just want to try some different things and get a feel for what I like and don't like.

You should be aware that the chance of a sharp hit sinks with the focal width you use at the same shutter speed. So when using a zoom lens (100+ mm) even a mere 200th of a second can become a very long time.

Apart from that, try to pan everything that moves for practice: people, animals, planes, etc. Even very slowly moving things can look awesome when photographed with a panning shot - they look much faster instead.

Once you've started with panning shots, you just can't stop. At least for me that's the case.

Last edited by smove, Thu 21 Feb 2013, 21:44.

Well explained.

The perfect panning shot is an achievement worth fighting for. To quote speedhunters.com: "When you drop your shutter speed to levels where nine out of ten images are unusable, you enter a world where that tenth image becomes something special."

Quote from DeadWolfBones :

The blur effect is a bit too unnatural, IMO.

I wouldn't say it's a blur effect - IMO, these are some great panning shots!