Corvettes on Flickr!
Recently I was searching around Flickr for Corvette Photos, and here are a few recent ones that really caught my eye!
All Photos are Creative Commons Licensed
Click any Photo or Link above the Photo to go to it’s Flickr Page.
Chevrolet Corvette by SoulRider.222
Chevrolet Corvette at the Belleville Zellers Parking Lot by Robert Scott Photography.ca
Chevrolet Corvette Sting Ray motif by exfordy
Who’s #1? by prorallypix
1965 Chevrolet Corvette dragster by geognerd
ALMS – Grand Prix of Mosport 2009 by nivlek_est
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Ford F-100 at the Belleville Zellers Parking Lot
My 75th Photo to make it into Flickr’s Explore pages! I haven’t had a Flickr Photo hit Explore since May, so this is kind of a big thing for me!
Can’t wait until this coming Tuesday, I’ll be approaching a few of the Classic Car owners at the Car Meet to see if I can get them out for Private shoots! Wish me Luck!
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Orton Effect
Here’s a selection of photographs from Flickr Creative Commons found using the search string “Orton Effect”.
The second photograph in the group is my own, created using the exact steps from my Orton Effect Tutorial.
From Wikipedia: Orton imagery, also called an Orton slide sandwich, is a photography technique which blends two completely different photos of the same scene, resulting in a distinctive mix of high and low detail areas within the same photo. It was originated by photographer Michael Orton.
HDR processed with Noiseware
Hey everyone! I’m building on the success of my tutorial for HDR and thought I would scour the depths of Flickr Creative Commons to find some photographs that have been processed the same way. (Or very close anyway).
Here’s a selection of 10 Creative Commons Photographs from Flickr, found with the search string of “HDR Noiseware”.
For my version of how to complete these, Click Here!
Texture Set 004 – Metal
Another couple of Texture Sets coming out today. This first one is just a 6 texture set consisting of a few metal items and a few wooden items!
As usual, any of these textures can be used by anyone as long as you link back to the texture’s flickr page when you post your work!
Again, if anyone would like to request any specific textures, please either email or comment and we’ll get what we can for you!
My Texture Tutorial is Available to those who have less experience working with these Textures!
Metal:
Wood:
Texture Set 003 – Concrete
Set #3 coming at you! This one is a selection of concrete textures. These and wood textures are the ones I like to use the most on photographs. I’m also going to see if I can come by some old paper and make some textures for all of you out of them.
If you’d like to request any kind of texture, but all means, go for it! We’ll see what we can do!
My Texture Tutorial is always available for those less experienced in using textures!
Texture Set 002 – Graffiti
Jenn and I were out today taking some random photographs, I was in search of Textures that could be fun to use!
I’ve got a whole bunch more going up over the next few days, and I’m going to try to put together a texture pack with at least 100 good ones over the next month or so.
We’re also working on Jenn’s corner on the website, we’re setting up another Blog strictly for her stuff. She’s even taken some texture photographs of her own that we’ll be putting into a pack in the near future! Jenn is somewhat of a rookie when it comes to processing photographs, so she’s going to take the test and see if the Tutorials I’ve written are good for beginners!
This post is a bunch of graffiti that we’ve found around town. I’m sure we’ll be getting out and finding more very soon! Each Texture is Free for use as long as you link back to the Flickr page when you post your work!
Texture Set 001 – Old Wood
Hey everyone! I’ve decided to get into the wonderful world of Texture Sets! I’m going to start offering Sets of textures completely free to the world! All I request is that if you use one of my textures, you link back to it’s page on Flickr or to the Blog here 
We’re going to start off the Texture sets today with one of Old Wood. I’ve put up 4 Old Wood Textures on my Flickr Photostream and would love to see what people can do with them!
If you’re not familliar in working with textures, you could always check out my tutorials HERE!
Here’s a preview of the 4 Textures that I’m uploading right now, feel free to click-through to the Flickr Page and get the original size!
HDR Tutorial Now Posted!
It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything to the Tutorials page on my website, so I’ve done an update and posted an HDR tutorial for all those people curious about how I produce a good number of my photographs!
Head on over to My Tutorials Page and have a read!
Nikon 50mm f/1.8 vs Nikon 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5 Lens Comparison
After reading through the Nikon D80 User Group on Flickr, I’ve decided to do a quick comparison of two lenses in my camera bag. The ever-popular 50mm f/1.8 and the best kit-lens Nikon has released thus-far, the 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5.
When I purchased my D80 about 2 years ago, I also purchased the kit lens and a Tamron tele-macro. The kit lens has spent the most time on the camera because of it’s superior quality and range. I’m more of a nature/landscape photographer, so this lens has the range that I need.
After a while, I started getting into floral photography, and some portraits as well. I’d heard all along that the Nikon 50mm f/1.8 would be the best lens to use for low-light and clarity.
The 50mm f/1.8 became part of my equipment, but still spent most of it’s time in the camera bag while the 18-70mm was my workhorse. The 50mm would come out when I wanted a nice close-up of a flower or person, but the 18-70 did pretty-well everything else.
I’ve put this together to show a comparison of the two lenses using the exact same settings.
Settings for test:
Focal Length: 50mm
Aperture: f/5.6
Shutter: 1/10
ISO: 200
Directly left of the subject (about a foot away) is a Nikon SB-600 Speedlight with a Gary Fong light-sphere.
Click on the Photograph to see larger on Flickr.
I may do a few more comparisons of these lenses out in the wild instead of inside, but those will be amended to this post at a later date.
As you can see from the photograph above, the 18-70mm has out-performed the 50mm in this case, likely due to the settings used. I was actually quite surprised to see this myself, but it’s not that much of a shock considering the kit lens that was tested.
It was asked in the D80 Group on Flickr if it was worth it to sell the 18-55mm kit lens to buy a 50mm. I honestly have to say that it depends on what the majority of your subjects are when shooting. I’m going to try and get my hands on an 18-55mm kit lens to try it out, but to the poster of the discussion, I whole-heartedly recommend the possibility of upgrading your 18-55mm to the 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5. In my own experience, these lenses are very comparable.
I’m going to be writing up reviews for each one of my lenses and various other pieces of equipment in my bag over the next week or so, keep an eye out here!