did you post those?

Thanks! And yes I did. I believe exposure time was 8 seconds.

Yeah, I posted them the same day I posted them here. The one of the front is on my first page.

What all did you do to edit those? I've attempted night shots once or twice but never quite knew how to edit them.

I use Photoshop CS3. I think each one took about half an hour, but I'm not really sure. I started out with shadow/highlight, then color balance changes (taking away a lot of yellow from highlights, etc.). Then I got technical and took out color noise on the car itself, lowering the saturation on the car and the road, fixed the color on the trees, took away some more yellows, made the car's shadow not so green. Then I cleaned it up some more with some sharpening/noise reduction. I think that's how it went. It went better than I expected. Since the car was black it was harder to get its brightness/contrast right, but it was a lot easier to correct its color.

I'd say this is probably my next best night shot. It's still pretty hard for me since I'm still pretty new to photography and I also use a 10 year old camera.

One trick I sometimes do is leaving the photo for a while and coming back to it, since there might be something wrong with it that I didn't notice when I was looking at it for so long.

You might've realized this, but when working with mesh grilles like the rear of the P1, you have to be careful with the noise filter. Sometimes it'll see the grille as noise and will flatten/blur it out, so sometimes I'll have to isolate that part and apply the filter to everything else.

Oh right, one more thing: I did light up the car a bit with my phone's flashlight, which I thought I would need with a black car at night. I would just have it on, start the photo, then shine it over all the parts that were too dark (while avoiding reflectors/glare-y caron fiber). I think it worked pretty well; would recommend.

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After



Yeah, it may look like i just cropped the pic, but i did edit it. Just not much. An auto-fix was really the only necessary thing to do :)

What do you guys think of the edit on this one?

Post the original with it to compare?..

I already had one shot of it up on ES, and I don't have a Flickr, Facebook, Instagram, etc...

You could use imgur or something similar though.

Photo came out pretty dark and didn't do the paint much justice. I think I fixed it enough though.

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After:

Before

DSC_1869 by sd_photography2, on Flickr

After

PSX_20150412_213843 by sd_photography2, on Flickr

Taken with IPhone 6 edited by my friend I think he went a bit too much oh well