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Señor Greengo
those are some pretty sweet pics.
Day at the races
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shavedaccord
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Canon 40d & Photoshop CS3What kind of camera are you using? And how'd you do the black/white bg but hot red car? Is that photoshop? I need to learn desperately...
finch13
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As for how he did it... it's fairly easy. If he's shooting RAW which I'm sure he is, you can desaturate individual hues in the CS3 raw dialog box, doesn't really work for multicolored objects like cars though. I'm betting he just used the paintbrush set to "saturation" to desaturate everything but the car.
ryan s
they dont think it
you can also do the "history brush" method, but it takes a while...
selective desaturation is right up there with hdr for me
selective desaturation is right up there with hdr for me
shavedaccord
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That works too but I didn't do it that way lol.. I converted them to b&w using filters since it actually renders better results than RAW & on-camera b&w. Then simply erased what I didn't want to keep on the b&w layer.
shavedaccord
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selective desaturation is right up there with hdr for me
Only reason I done them like I did was to showcase the car itself since the background clashed in most of them.
ryan s
they dont think it
i assume you were using the zoom (55-200?)...use like f/5.6 and get plenty of space between you and the subject. unfortunately slow lenses make it hard...if only 400/2.8 lenses were affordable 
shavedaccord
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Sold the 55-250 IS, I was using the 28-135 IS USM. I have a 70-200 f/4 L but I didn't feel like lugging the tripod around and I forgot the nifty at home.i assume you were using the zoom (55-200?)...use like f/5.6 and get plenty of space between you and the subject. unfortunately slow lenses make it hard...if only 400/2.8 lenses were affordable
fothermucker
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Cool pics!
