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Re: SHOW US  YOUR  ROAD GLIDE
« Reply #1155 on: March 13, 2011, 11:59:08 PM »

One more for the night  :)



DAMN I love this bike!! (To ride and to shoot!)  :bananarock:

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« Reply #1156 on: March 14, 2011, 02:55:48 AM »

awesome area, pretty bike and a very good photographer !!!!!!
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« Reply #1157 on: March 14, 2011, 07:15:58 AM »


Crusty,

The way you take pictures of your Yellow SERG makes me want one in that color. Harley should hire you to take pictures for their CVO brochure for 2012 and beyond.

Great looking ride and killer pictures dude.

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« Reply #1158 on: March 14, 2011, 07:32:16 AM »

Crusty,

The way you take pictures of your Yellow SERG makes me want one in that color. Harley should hire you to take pictures for their CVO brochure for 2012 and beyond.

Great looking ride and killer pictures dude.

BryantH


+1  :2vrolijk_21:    Incredible pictures
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« Reply #1159 on: March 14, 2011, 08:54:26 AM »

Crusty, can you give us any hints and suggestions on your photos?  What camera do you use? What settings?  Do you alter them in photoshop or another program? Man, they are really nice. The colors are so vivid and definite. Any help would be appreciated.
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« Reply #1160 on: March 14, 2011, 09:34:16 AM »

Crusty, can you give us any hints and suggestions on your photos?  What camera do you use? What settings?  Do you alter them in photoshop or another program? Man, they are really nice. The colors are so vivid and definite. Any help would be appreciated.

I really do appreciate all the compliments, and they inspire me to get better. I should make my own thread, but that would imply I "officially" knew what I was doing...  :coolblue: :P  I have done a lot of Googling, and reading around the 'net, but with ADD< me and reading don't get along so good, so I mostly just wing it. I really do want to get in a class, so I can learn the terms and techniques to get improve and actually KNOW what I'm doing (which helps when you try and repeat your success... lol).

(DAMMIT... had a nice long response composed, and then accidentally clicked on a link to get more info on this tab instead of the other one I was using and lost it all.  :-[ )

I currently shoot with a Nikon D300s (http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/nikond300s/).
My older shots are taken with my D80 (http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/NikonD80/)

The lens I used yesterday is nothing exciting, an 18-70 3.5-?. (I am also trying to get better at shooting my daughter's HS basketball team and dropped $2300 on a NIkkor 70-200 2.8; photography gear gets expensive as quick as HD stuff...lol)

I use the bracketed mode on my camera to shoot 3/5/7 consecutive shots (tripod is ideal, but I shoot most of mine handheld... the 7 frames a second on the D300s help with that!) at different exposures. Then you post process with software that combines them into a High Dynamic Range (HDR) image (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-dynamic-range_imaging). Most HDR software can also take a single shot and digitially modify it to create similar effects.

I use Photomatix Pro (http://www.hdrsoft.com/) to do my HDR work. You can d/l the trial version, which will leave watermarks on your pics, but will elt you play with the software to get an idea how it works. (Just don't delete your original files, so when you upgrade to the paid version you can't go back and reprocess them without the watermark and end up having to use photoshop to get rid of them... don't ask me how I know... lol)

Then I finalize my processing using Adobe Lightroom 3 (http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshoplightroom/) Not cheap, but if you are a student or teacher, you can get it for under $100... thanks Adobe!)

I really do enjoy learning as I go... and with a bike this great to shoot, it helps! (But I have learned that the shark nose fairing is challenging, with the shadows and reflections it creates.)

Hope that made some sense... lol

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Re: SHOW US  YOUR  ROAD GLIDE
« Reply #1161 on: March 14, 2011, 01:00:51 PM »

Crusty
         It's rare that I see a picture of another member's H-D that reaches out and grabs me as yours have. Harley-Davidson Inc. spends gobs of money having their new model lineup photographed every year and they don't do as good a job of blending location, background and theme into the pics as does the one of your ride with the mountains in the background. If I had never owned a Harley, never paid heed to them and like a lot of frustrated guys getting up there in years still dreamed of some youthful road trip across America on America's motorcycle, that shot would have me running to my nearest Harley dealership checkbook in hand. There's just something about the the way the colors of that SERG blend with the background and the mountains in the distance evoke a need to travel far and the motorcycle in the foreground seeming to be a magic carpet to get one there. You have talent dude, you really do.

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« Reply #1162 on: March 14, 2011, 02:28:03 PM »

 :jack:  Crusty...is LR 3 significantly better than LR 2?  I'm currently using  LR 2 and NX Capture 2 (for better processing of RAW files).  I haven't dabbled in HDR much, but your photos make me want to go there.  I currently shoot a D300, and have narrowed my lenses down to (all Nikon) 10-24, 16-85 (a sweet little lens, and really nice range), and a 70-300VR.  Throw in the 50 1.8 for low light.  The 70-200 you just got is awesome, but I just don't need the fast glass at this point, but that should work great for your action shots.

Do you find that LR 3 imports RAW files "better" than LR 2?  The only reason I have NX 2 is because LR can't read the camera settings on a RAW file...does LR 3 do a better job of bring them in as shot with the proper import settings applied by Adobe?  This should probably be in a seperate thread, but your work is nice.  Check out some of my stuff here:  http://terrycrainphoto.photoshelter.com/
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Re: SHOW US  YOUR  ROAD GLIDE
« Reply #1163 on: March 14, 2011, 04:56:11 PM »

:jack:  Crusty...is LR 3 significantly better than LR 2?  I'm currently using  LR 2 and NX Capture 2 (for better processing of RAW files).  I haven't dabbled in HDR much, but your photos make me want to go there.  I currently shoot a D300, and have narrowed my lenses down to (all Nikon) 10-24, 16-85 (a sweet little lens, and really nice range), and a 70-300VR.  Throw in the 50 1.8 for low light.  The 70-200 you just got is awesome, but I just don't need the fast glass at this point, but that should work great for your action shots.

Do you find that LR 3 imports RAW files "better" than LR 2?  The only reason I have NX 2 is because LR can't read the camera settings on a RAW file...does LR 3 do a better job of bring them in as shot with the proper import settings applied by Adobe?  This should probably be in a seperate thread, but your work is nice.  Check out some of my stuff here:  http://terrycrainphoto.photoshelter.com/

If this were anything to do with Harley-Davidson motorcycles, it would go down as the all time most technical post in the history of cvoharley.com.

Since it's about cameras (I think ????)  it's just a bunch of technoweenie blather and don't count for squat.  :P :D   :huepfenjump3:

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Re: SHOW US  YOUR  ROAD GLIDE
« Reply #1164 on: March 14, 2011, 08:28:55 PM »

I can see some reflector glare....is there a cure for that ??  Call LarryB
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Re: SHOW US  YOUR  ROAD GLIDE
« Reply #1165 on: March 14, 2011, 09:13:45 PM »

Crusty,

The way you take pictures of your Yellow SERG makes me want one in that color. Harley should hire you to take pictures for their CVO brochure for 2012 and beyond.

Great looking ride and killer pictures dude.

BryantH


It sounds like yellow envy is setting in!   :-*
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« Reply #1166 on: March 14, 2011, 11:13:54 PM »

Crusty
         It's rare that I see a picture of another member's H-D that reaches out and grabs me as yours have. Harley-Davidson Inc. spends gobs of money having their new model lineup photographed every year and they don't do as good a job of blending location, background and theme into the pics as does the one of your ride with the mountains in the background. If I had never owned a Harley, never paid heed to them and like a lot of frustrated guys getting up there in years still dreamed of some youthful road trip across America on America's motorcycle, that shot would have me running to my nearest Harley dealership checkbook in hand. There's just something about the the way the colors of that SERG blend with the background and the mountains in the distance evoke a need to travel far and the motorcycle in the foreground seeming to be a magic carpet to get one there. You have talent dude, you really do.

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Dang, those are some mighty kind words... thank you very much!!! 

I can see some reflector glare....is there a cure for that ??  Call LarryB

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« Reply #1167 on: March 14, 2011, 11:18:45 PM »

Crusty, can you give us any hints and suggestions on your photos?  What camera do you use? What settings?  Do you alter them in photoshop or another program? Man, they are really nice. The colors are so vivid and definite. Any help would be appreciated.

OK, I started another thread here to talk photography... http://www.cvoharley.com/smf/index.php?topic=60347.0

for the rest, back to your regularly scheduled bike porn!



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Re: SHOW US  YOUR  ROAD GLIDE
« Reply #1168 on: March 15, 2011, 11:15:45 AM »



STOP IT   

I've been jonesing for an 09 SERG since they came out.

You're killin me dude


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« Reply #1169 on: March 15, 2011, 01:40:02 PM »

STOP IT   

I've been jonesing for an 09 SERG since they came out.

You're killin me dude


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I hear ya... I wasn't even thinking about a new bike until I saw this one in the catalog & fell in love. Bought it having never even ridden a HD before.
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