old car

[ragman]

Old car picture taken outside of Yellowstone National Park.

[Shadowman]

Nice effort.

[ragman]

Nice effort.

[ragman]

Thanks John...still trying to work out the mechanics of posting a picture. I am brand new to photo shop but hope to tough through it.

[joebranko]

I recently saw one like this in a scrap yard in Port Colborne on the weekend!

[TonyW]

We need a better photo of the hood ornament to identify it. It looks like Dodge or DeSoto to me. You might have to go back to photograph it again

[ragman]

Tony, I'm about two thousand miles away from this car (shot while on vacation) but I did take a number of pics so I will look in to it. Other than a hood ornament there were no other markings.

[ragman]

With some research, the pictured sedan is a 1934 Plymouth. Hood ornament is broken off, but an inverted v emblem remains intact at the crown of the radiator shell. Dodge that year, although similar in body, had no such emblem. I have a closeup of this shell, but it is painfull to post it. I'm working on perfecting this process.

[IzzieK]

Ron here is the link on the many questions you might have about uploading a picture here in your post...We use Tiny Pic to direct download the image from your computer to this forum.

https://www.cambridgeincolour.com/fo...faq_postimages

Hope this helps.

[ragman]

Thanks izziek, I have read this but my brain must be slow in absorbing the process. I don't do well with computers. I promise improvement.

[Wavelength]

Ron, a very nice image; my only suggestion is that another day of time, so that the surrounding light is not so harsh...

Regards

[ragman]

Thanks wavelength. I was passing through the area at that time of day and had little choice as to conditions. I tried toning down surrounding light in ps and ended up with a very dark car. More knowledge in ps could probably remedy some issues. I did "blur" the background to add the illusion of more clarity in the car, plus I like the effects of some posterization. All comment welcomed.

[IzzieK]

OK Ron...I will do this and only once...I promise you that if you are able to load up your image properly you will get more responses to your post/s.

When you press + Reply to Thread at the bottom of the page you will see this...
1



2 Click on Go Advanced at the bottom of the message window. You will be directed to a bigger message window. AT the bottom of that page, click on Click Here to Upload Photos From Your Computer at the bottom of the page after you have written your intro or something you put before an image.

3 You will see this:



4 Click on Choose File to upload your image then press the Upload Now button at the bottom of the Tiny Pic window. Wait awhile and you will see a link at the bottom of that window IMG CODE FOR FORUMS AND MESSAGE BOARDS, highlight that link and copy it to your message window.

5 Then at the bottom of your message window, at the right side, it says Preview Post. Click that button and it will bring you to your message window with your image in it already loaded. Underneath your photo, write something else like, For C&C, meaning for comments and critique, or write something else you like.

5. When you finished your message, press Submit Reply and you are home and hosed.

Good luck,
Izzie.

P.S. Do not be embarrassed to ask any more questions foe clarifying what you are not familiar with. We all have to start somewhere. There are no stupid questions here. And also try to respond to other members' post too so you can make friends here and also helps you to see what they had seen when they took their shots. As Dave, Manfred and Donald will say -- we are very informal here. We refer to each other by our first name, not by our user name. If you do not mine, call me Izzie. I like that name better.

Another P.S...if you encounter a problem like I did a while ago while doing this message clicking Preview Post and encountering a blank page, press the arrow button at the top of the page and you will see your message in full glory. I have not encountered this problem before so please Mr. Moderators, take note of this...

[ragman]

Izzie...thank you very much for that walk through. I stayed up late last night "practicing" uploading and sizing pics and I think a light came on ! My issues are great, in that I did not even know how to cut and paste. Very basic stuff that had to be conquered. Your comments and everything I thought I knew would not work without cut & paste knowledge. Re-sizing and filing pics is still a challenge, but I'm confident it can be mastered. Again, thanks for your patients and expert advice. ( hope you get this )

[IzzieK]

I may be able to help you if you tell me what program you are using to cut and paste your image...

[ragman]

Izzie
I don't know exactly what you are asking? I am using a PC computer not Apple if that's what you mean. There are actually a couple routes to re-sizing, sometimes a pop-up with a slider allowing me to size by say 1.8 mb, other times I re-size by clicking on pixel size both horizontal and vertical. If I choose a landscape format I max out the pixels to 1200+- and the vertical setting automatically falls into place. Portrait of course is opposite. It's a trial and error thing around here. I do appreciate your willingness to help me, but don't get frustrated by it. I am feeling more and more familiar with the route I must take, it's just going to take time. Thanks again

[Manfred M]

This is a tough shot to do Ron. You are shooting from the shadow side in a backlit scene, which means you are ending up with a light background with a dark subject. The time of day was unlikely helping here either, as the shadows are quite harsh. I wonder if walking around the car might not have given you a better shot (taking it from the side the light was coming from), but then the background might not have worked.

The problem with vacation shots is that they tend to be difficult to redo...

[ragman]

manfred, thanks for your comments. The light was getting low in the sky and coming from behind the car. I took a series of shots from all angles but except for the light, I liked this angle best. The car obviously could not be moved and the view from the other side was less interesting. I will submit a shot from the light side that I doctored up. When all else fails crank up the special effects.

[IzzieK]

Izzie
I don't know exactly what you are asking?

I was asking you what software you are using to crop and resize your image. Now that you have a bigger version that can be viewed in lytebox, we can see your EXIF -- the data you used to shoot your image. You shot this image on September 10, 2015 using a 24-70mm lens on a Canon EOS 6D, Shutter Speed 1/250, Aperture 6.3, ISO 100. No Flash and your software is Photoshop CC.

I am using a PC computer not Apple if that's what you mean. There are actually a couple routes to re-sizing, sometimes a pop-up with a slider allowing me to size by say 1.8 mb, other times I re-size by clicking on pixel size both horizontal and vertical. If I choose a landscape format I max out the pixels to 1200+- and the vertical setting automatically falls into place. Portrait of course is opposite. It's a trial and error thing around here. I do appreciate your willingness to help me, but don't get frustrated by it. I am feeling more and more familiar with the route I must take, it's just going to take time. Thanks again

I am not frustrated and if my response feels like it, I am sorry. I was like you before -- as many here was too -- everything that I read is way over my head so I tend to choose tutorials that I can understand, layman style so to speak. I am by no means an expert, but I have been through the same experience as you are experiencing at times. And I do not see any reason for me at present to upgrade to Photoshop CC. I am only using Photoshop CS6. I am also using Windows.

The cut and paste that you described seems like you have your original image, then you hold down Ctrl + Alt then press I (shortcut to Image Size, I do not recall where it is in the tool box) and from then, you change the size of your image.

Your image here has colour fringing. Google Removing Colour Fringing and find some tutorial that you will understand. I just googled Removing Colour Fringing tutorial and many links came up. One of them is this ..

http://www.adorama.com/alc/0013775/a...Digital-Images

but you may be better off with a video tutorial instead.

Hope this helps. There's a lot to learn in Photography -- all good, and it needs practice to perfect each shot. I've been there too in the past and still practicing and learning. Start with Exposure Compensation.

Hope this helps.

[ragman]

I was asking you what software you are using to crop and resize your image. Now that you have a bigger version that can be viewed in lytebox, we can see your EXIF -- the data you used to shoot your image. You shot this image on September 10, 2015 using a 24-70mm lens on a Canon EOS 6D, Shutter Speed 1/250, Aperture 6.3, ISO 100. No Flash and your software is Photoshop CC.


I am not frustrated and if my response feels like it, I am sorry. I was like you before -- as many here was too -- everything that I read is way over my head so I tend to choose tutorials that I can understand, layman style so to speak. I am by no means an expert, but I have been through the same experience as you are experiencing at times. And I do not see any reason for me at present to upgrade to Photoshop CC. I am only using Photoshop CS6. I am also using Windows.

The cut and paste that you described seems like you have your original image, then you hold down Ctrl + Alt then press I (shortcut to Image Size, I do not recall where it is in the tool box) and from then, you change the size of your image.

Your image here has colour fringing. Google Removing Colour Fringing and find some tutorial that you will understand. I just googled Removing Colour Fringing tutorial and many links came up. One of them is this ..

http://www.adorama.com/alc/0013775/a...Digital-Images

but you may be better off with a video tutorial instead.

Hope this helps. There's a lot to learn in Photography -- all good, and it needs practice to perfect each shot. I've been there too in the past and still practicing and learning. Start with Exposure Compensation.

Hope this helps.