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Today's photo is of my dirty 18x9.5+35 rear wheel on the ceffy parked up against the garage door. Added some split toning and colour burn to bring out the detail in the dirt and alloy post process.

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Nice Funkymonkey!

I think the cross processing look brings out the image a lot more. I like it :P

Here's mine for today (yesterday) i think i went a little too overboard, but i still like it.

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Ok guy's I need your help I have a eos cannon rebel and I want to get a good pick of my front end moving how close do I have to be and what kind of speed in the car and schutter speed ....I'm new at this .....I dont have a wide angle lence .....I do have hero cam!!!! with wide angle but I can't slow down the shutter speed I don't think

By the sounds of it you mean a rig shot? If so you will need suction cups(Avenger F1000), boom arm(Around 10-15ft pole that has minimum flex), magic arm(Manfrotto) and super clamps(Manfrotto).

Otherwise for panning, shutter speed of between 1-30th - 1/160th (Depending on how much motion blur you want), pan with the car as it drives along and keep panning with it until the shutter has completely closed and taken the photo.

Takes a fair bit of practice but your bound to get a keeper. Best to start with your shutter speed higher and lower it as your keeper rate gets more successful. Normally you don't use WA lenses for this, you use super tele's (70-200/300/400/500/600) because you will be shooting from a distance and want a nice tight framed shot.

Hope i helped.

ah nice one kory. how did you light that? couple of speedlights, gels?

ive got two speedlights now and only just starting to learn how to use them properly. will be a bit of a curve for me, im used to straight up motorsports where flash is actually a no no, lol.

Close Funkymonkey!

I used a Vivitar 285HV with a 1/2 CTO gel and a pure blue Gel to light the background (put right underneath the glass a bit further back and bounced off the background).

And then 2x AB800's (strobes) to light it.

Everything was off camera and triggered by wireless triggers.

It's pretty simple to do, you just need a flash/strobe that has a fast enough flash durating to freeze the liquid. It is basically a light tent that it is in (the glass).

Setup consisted of:

White styrofoam on the sides of the cup and behind the cup (background). The White pretty much acts as reflectors.

1x AB800 on the left with a PLM (big bounce umbrella) with White front Diffuser fabric on which is equivalent to a large softbox.

1X AB800 on the right in a 47" octabox.

Tripod - so you can make a composite and because for this i found it was easier to keep everything straight.

Reason i used modifiers is to soften the light so it is not as specular and hard. I really am a fan of soft light.

I also did a composite with this image. I took one of the background with the glass there. Then turned on the strobes, and got my mate to drop icecubes in from above and then merged them together in photoshop and added layer masks to paint in some drops/splashes and then used the healing brush to blend it all together.

It was shot at 1/125th, ISO 100, F5.6 (i think from memory, unsure if the exif is still there).

AB800's were at 1/32th power.

Hope i have helped and sorry for the super long info! Got a bit carried away :(

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From what i can see the photos are still looking great

i was just wondering (havent been able to look in shops or find prices online)

BUT

approx how much are shutter release cords? need one for my canon. even though every weekend i tell myself i want to go play with the camera and it NEVER happens.

i like jay019's middle shot and zennons city corner shot.

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