piper5177

The new zooms are as good as the AF-I and AF-S non VR primes?

When will this come to Nikon? I would rather pony up the money for a prime lens with three focal lengths if the quality is there.

Haven't posted in a while but just shot this on my morning drive.

Reno Ari Races this weekend.

Could have been...

Anyone here? I went past you as i was heading southbound and you were heading north.

I am an estimator for a high tech mechanical contractor. I worked toward this job for the last ten years. I finally have it and now I want to start my own business eventually. I love where I am at, only have a 5 mile commute and can afford to let my wife stay home with the kid in the Bay Area, CA.

I sold this one...well some of the rights anyway. I still have poster and photographic rights though...if anyone is interested .

Look at the combustion chambers on that!

I sure as hell would not want to try that with a Z....

It's what I used to do for a living (industrial piping) now I am an estimator in the same field. I used to fly a Piper Warrior also. My pager code in high school was 5177 and stood for Superman...used to lift a lot of weights but now I am just you average everyday couch potato. I'll make it back to the gym eventually but the kid and work have me too damn busy!

Both on the BG. I desaturated it and used a light orange filter.

My Z gets processed in my garage, the image was processed in Photoshop. I only tweaked the background and blurred the edges around the selection line. I did dangle that a little bit huh?

Here's one of my Z after some processing.

My two favorites are.... Spike Spiegel and... Takumi Fujiwara I also thought Lt. Rick Hunter was pretty cool when I was a kid. I love the classic US stuff, but the late 90's early 2000's anime is cool stuff.

The L Series engine is a design from the Prince Motor Company from the late 50's early 60's who purchased the design from Mercedes Benz and made enough changes that it became a Prince motor patent. It is a very durable design and was originally a 4 cylinder. Prince and Nissan merged and Nissan added two more cylinders and made some minor changes in the oiling system and casting for the Fairlady Z. They kept the block and head design mostly unchanged for 20 years aside from tweaks for emissions. Here is the history http://zhome.com/History/Truth/Prince.htm

nice!

I think I am at at least 200 flywheel with my setup, though it wasn't cheap. E31 head tripple webbers setup for 6500 RPM peak HP stage 3 cam (Schneider .460" 270/280) port matched Canon intake flat top forged pistons .030" overbore P&B crank 12 lb flywheel MSA 6-1 header 2.5" mandrel bend exhaust with Dynomax bullet and Magnaflow round race can straight through Crane Fireball Hi-6 digital ignition on an E12-80 module I get 160-165 on 91 octane at the wheels (got to be around 200 flywheel). I'm not going to pull it out to test flywheel HP. I love this engine setup, just enough torque down low and easily revs to 7000. I could probably get more with headwork but it runs so good that I don't want to mess with it anymore and I wouldn't notice the few extra ponies on the street. When this engine dies (less than 5000 miles on it) I'm going RB25 anyway unless I get the horsepower bug up my ass.

I have the game and a FFB wheel. I'll keep an eye out when you guys play next. I just got it recently with GT Legends but don't have much wheel time.

That's funny, it doesn't match the car in the pictures.

I agree, there are some great shots on here.

Every picture is differrent and grays seem to be the hardest. The software allows a lot of adjustment so you have to play with it a little. As far as contrast and color issues, just make sure you cover the full light range in the shot and it usually isnt too much of a problem. It's hard to get black lines like powerlines or rope on sails to not cause distortion against a bright solid background like an overcast sky though. I like to have more overexposed images than under exposed images in my HDR images as it reduces the noise issues in the mid-tones, so maybe -3 EV to +5 EV on your bracketing. It depends on what you are trying to do, but the program makes it pretty easy to try different things, doesn't take hours of time and is much faster and easier than using a program like Photoshop to adjust your curves manually, though you can get some crazy results with that method. Here is the train image with the color blown out and a steep exposure curve in Photoshop using manual HDR, I wanted the train only visible in the shadows so it would be ghostly.

http://www.specialtysales.com/inventory_detailed.php?id=4004&nhs=70&make=&model=&ext_color=&stockno=&eyear=2006&syear=1900&eprice=&sprice=&keywords=&location=&type=used&specials=&rtd=&solds=&replica=&ob=yr&desc=&t=1971+Datsun+240Z Here is the real ad. The ebay ad is a fake. I have been to the place i Pleasanton and they are reputable and have some of the baddest cars in Norcal for sale.

Thanks Mike, Photomatix saves some time definitely and if you get used to the settings can do some very nice things. I don't recommend it as a standalone though. Yeah Gollum the shaddows aren't right either they are coming from the windows instead of the light source.

zguy, here is a surreal HDR I made of my cousin in an abandoned church. I took the series of images around six months ago and never figured out what I wanted to do with them, but this thread inspired me and here it is. The second photo is one of the seven I shot inside the church (the one with my cousin standing in, it was a super long exposure since it was shot at dusk--why it's so bright and why his hands are slightly blurred. I don't know why he couldn't stand still for so long ). I added the cloak and the flare obviously and did some specular lighting effects with color filtering to get the effect. Its a quick photoshop so don't be too critical.