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 p.264 #19 · ZE/ZF/ZM Images (Official Thread!) | |
The last two shots are great, Philippe! Nice change of pace too, Hugo. Btw, the quote should be "I see you".
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I went to Meilenwerk again today. Meilenwerk is a heated luxury garage for expensive cars. They have talks, in-house shops, in-house garages (of the fix-cars kind), and much more. There are also some of the most beautiful (and expensive) cars in the world there, including old and new Bugattis, Rolls Royces (including an absolutely huge 1922 specimen), silver Mercedes Benz 300SL gullwing, British racing green Aston Martin DB5, and much more, but sadly, most of these are behind glass. Standing on the open floor there are still many very beautiful cars, which in December included a dark red 300SL gullwing (!) and a dark red DB6 (!!). Both were gone this time, but there are still many Daimlers, Jaguars, Mercedes, Bentleys, and so on.
http://www.meilenwerk.de/Meilenwerk_Berlin_index.php
When I went there in late December, I loved the place and the cars, but struggled to make meaningful photos, so I was a bit hesitant to go there again today, but in the end I decided to try it, and this time to bring a theme: automotive landscape panoramas, and to do everything with live view on my tripod, and pay particular attention to depth of field, and the avoidance of purple fringes, which ruined many shots from my last trip (100MP). Of course, I also tried to capture a detail which was characteristic of the depicted car, and I think I managed to do that. I find the E-type Jag shot a little weak, btw. I absolutely love the real car, so I need to go back and spend more time finding a better angle.
Here are the six best (and only  ) shots from this time. The first is in 2.3:1 ratio, the rest in 2.5:1. I learned this time not to compose too tightly, because small glitches in the rotation can cause work later which loses some real estate, and by the time I have rotated and cropped to fix it, I might not have enough for my preferred composition and ratio any longer. I also forgot my panorama rail 
By the way, I haven't worked on the images at all, other than stitching and cropping them. I might give some of them a very light HDR treatment to bring back a little light in the shadows and calm the highlights just a touch.
Edited on Jan 16, 2011 at 05:22 PM · View previous versions
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