Spontaneous shoot with my new BRZ
 

Well, I've been following the rumors and subsequently this car for as long as I can remember. I guess it's been four years probably? Anyway, all that matter's now is I finally bit the bullet and picked one up this past Friday. Here's a few pics from a short little drive I took on Sunday. I couldn't be happier with it. Hope ya enjoy.

wow! amazing pictures. thanks for sharing.

Nice car. Nice pictures!

What camera?

That scenery!

Word of advice: I wouldn't take too many pictures with the point of view as low as the first one until you've lowered your car, if that's even in your plans. It makes it look less sporty, and more like a 4x4.
But that's just me! Other than that, great pictures!

Nice scenery in the background, makes me want to move to Cali

I thought these shots looked amazing. I wish my car can be in pictures like these. :)

Thanks everyone! I'm hoping to do another shoot in the next few weeks with some actual planning behind it.

I used a Canon 6D, with a Sigma 50mm 1.4.

Haha I know what you mean. It will eventually get lowered, but it won't be for a while unfortunately. Thanks for the advice.

4 years in the making, "spontaneous"

:D

Touché lol

Congrats, I know that feeling. Great choice for color.

Love this photo:

http://www.ft86club.com/forums/attac...1&d=1386011871 (2nd one you posted)

Care to share any camera settings and post processing you used? For "spontaneous", you had a beautiful location and lighting. :thumbup:

Quality work.

nice!

I would have tried to reposition to get that white post out of the picture but otherwise that scenery looks great man!

The funny thing is, I was in such a hurry (wife was cooking dinner and I needed to be home asap) that I didn't even notice the post until I loaded the pictures into Lightroom. I thought about editing it out, but I got lazy lol.

I'd be more than happy to :).

So first things first. All shots were handheld, as I forgot to grab my tripod (rushing out the door since the sun was going down quickly). All were shot RAW, f2, iso 100, and with the shutter speed varying quite a bit. I have my camera set up to bracket 5 different exposures in succession to cover my bases really.

From there I import them into lightroom and choose the best one from each set of five shots. Then I make (most of the time very slight, although sometimes big) adjustments to the white balance, exposure, contrast, highlights, shadows, whites, blacks, clarity, luminance, sharpness, vignetting, etc.

Basically, my goal when editing is to make lots of small adjustments to get the image I'm going for, all while looking back at the original to make sure I don't deviate too much and ruin it lol.

Occasionally I'll overlay multiple images and choose aspects and lighting from each image that I like, and compile them all into one image. That's much more time consuming though.

Great pics. Looks like Arizona. Where did you take it by the way?

This was just outside of Yuba City, CA in the Sutter Buttes. It's a super small mountain range that's all privately owned nowadays.

Sweet sweet unmolested virgin goodness :D Great pics, and congrats!

Thanks for the response and information! :thanks:

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