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Old Nov 6, 2012 | 11:17 AM
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Went to the Hoover Dam with some friends while we were all in Vegas. Had a friend drive my car for me after we got there. All shots taken hand-held at dusk. Here are the car pics I took (noise reduction & crappy Facebook compression killed the details, white balance is a little off in most of them):





















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Old Nov 6, 2012 | 11:41 AM
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I saw these on Facebook and quite enjoyed them! Looks like you had a nice cruise up there. Great looking cars and good to see some familiar faces.
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Old Nov 6, 2012 | 12:03 PM
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awesome pics
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Old Nov 6, 2012 | 12:25 PM
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Man those are nice pictures. I love the lighting and the scenery is A+
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Old Nov 6, 2012 | 02:15 PM
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Good pics. You and your friends have some badass cars.
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Old Nov 6, 2012 | 03:55 PM
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Great pictures, and a great place to go for a drive!

And I'm sure I've said this before, but your Firebird has the perfect combination of body parts! Hardtop, T/A wing, Raptor hood, and Formula/base everything else FTW! When/if I get another Firebird that's how I want to make it look.
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Old Nov 6, 2012 | 06:12 PM
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Thanks guys, much appreciated. I wanted to get a shot from the bridge of the cars driving across the dam, but we just didn't have time. It was sort of a last-minute photoshoot so I didn't have a lot of time to plan angles and gather equipment. I definitely want to do another shoot there.

BTW, I used a Canon Rebel T4i with the following lenses: 70-200 F2.8 L, 50 1.8 II, 18-135 IS STM
and with this particular batch of pics, I used only Photoshop CS6 for fast half-*** post work.

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Old Nov 7, 2012 | 07:50 PM
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I was out there 3 ('09) years ago....118* but didn't feel like it....did the Dam tour LOL

Anywho.... cool pics.

While you were there, did you rub the toes for luck ????


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Old Nov 7, 2012 | 10:21 PM
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You know you're old when you say "no 56K".

Haha! Nice pics.
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Old Nov 7, 2012 | 10:52 PM
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Awesome pictures. Visited there a few years ago. Cool place.
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Old Nov 8, 2012 | 12:43 AM
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very cool. always wanted to go there.
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Old Nov 9, 2012 | 12:50 PM
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Great pics. Some beautiful cars there.
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Old Nov 10, 2012 | 10:00 PM
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loving the silver vette
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Old Nov 12, 2012 | 08:59 AM
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Great pics but they look a little dark
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Old Nov 12, 2012 | 12:47 PM
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Originally Posted by thunderstruck507
Great pics but they look a little dark
Thanks. They essentially match the real-world light levels at the time the pics were taken. All pics were taken hand-held with no supporting device like a monopod/tripod. If I try to brighten them in Photoshop you would see a ton of noise in addition to the ton of noise already present.
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Old Nov 12, 2012 | 01:20 PM
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Gotcha, part of it might be my monitor, I know the screen on my laptop at home is usually a lot brighter than this work LCD.

Still some awesome shots though, I don't even mind the noise it seems to fit the tone of the pictures overall. Works well with the contrast to me.
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Old Nov 12, 2012 | 02:21 PM
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Nice pictures looked like a fun time. The guy with the silver ws6 vert has basically the same car I do
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Old Nov 12, 2012 | 03:18 PM
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Originally Posted by Streetlegal?
Nice pictures looked like a fun time. The guy with the silver ws6 vert has basically the same car I do
That'd be me. I believe I posted in your photoshoot thread saying the same thing lol!
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Nice pics lol
Originally Posted by ZexGX
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Went to the Hoover Dam with some friends while we were all in Vegas. Had a friend drive my car for me after we got there. All shots taken hand-held at dusk. Here are the car pics I took (noise reduction & crappy Facebook compression killed the details, white balance is a little off in most of them):





















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Old Nov 17, 2012 | 06:24 PM
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^ There's one in every crowd I guess.

Great pics OP.
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