Holiday photos

[VilleV]

Thought I´d start a thread where everyone could post some of their (non-500-related) holiday pictures.

Miami South Beach:

[wreckmaster]

You are really an artist with that camera Ville:icon_thumleft: Great pictures, with great motives:icon_thumright:

[Peter O]

Great pictures! :icon_thumright:
The photos are great, the perspectives are strong, and the image progressing is perfect.

Give us more!

[.Lefteris.]

Veeeery nice ! :icon_thumright:

[Kertallica]

I have a very similar picture like your first one, and your second one is my favourite :D

[VilleV]

Thanks guys!:p

[Stormi]

Looked first like in Cuba ! You´re a gifted Pr:cool:

[Macke]

Gorgeous shoots, I was in Miami once in the 1970s and this bring back some memories.

[VilleV]

Few more pics:

[Peter O]

Great pics! :icon_thumright:

(I like the challenger too, excellent colour!)
;)

[wreckmaster]

After I have seen your holliday pictures Ville, I dont think I will ever dare to post any of mine again lol You are in a totally different league ;) As always, great pictures :)

[VilleV]

lol Stop kidding Wrecks! And obviously these shots arent straigh out of the camera. Three words; paint shop pro...:rolleyes:

[5OO]

:icon_thumleft: Nice pics. I didn't know Florida could look so nice.lol

[VilleV]

Maybe its just South beach... Would like to see California too so I could make a honest comparison!:cool: Visiting the US for the first time really left a hunger for more!!

[VilleV]

One of these for me, please!

[VilleV]

599 GTB Fiorano:cool: Driver posing out of the window!

[VilleV]

Dodge Prowler

[VilleV]

"Carnival Glory" leaving Miami port.

[VilleV]

Is there a Maserati hiding in the bushes?

[Kertallica]

*droooooooooooooooooools* lollollol

[VilleV]

F360 spyder, Brickell bay dr at downtown Miami and Art Deco style hotel Sherbrooke at South Beach.

[wreckmaster]

:eek::eek: Wow!!! Thats one shiney Ferrari:icon_thumleft:

[VilleV]

I bet your cars shine as well!:cool:

[wreckmaster]

Not these day they dont:( I bet that Ferrari never have been exposed to snow, salt, ice and acid rain:(


lollol

[Peter O]

Ville, your photos are better than anything else I see in forums. First I thought about stopping making pictures, but then I recollected that I also can't drive like Sebastién Loeb but don't stop driving.

Real great pictures! :icon_thumright:

[VilleV]

^
Thanks again Peter! I try to learn to take decent pictures, but some of the pictures you can see in Flickr just take my breath away! I´m still far far away from real photographers and the level I would like to be!:rolleyes:

[VilleV]

2010 Chevy Camaro and Ford Mustang. What a shame that these modern muscle cars are such a rare sight over here in Europe! Especially that Camaro works for me!:cool:

[Pethead]

Wow!!! What beatiful cars! I love them both! But watching them together I finally like much more the Camaro. It's the best photo of your holidays.

[VilleV]

I love the new Camaro too! I´d rank these modern retro muscles in order 1. camaro 2. Challenger 3. mustang.

[Pethead]

1. camaro 2. Challenger 3. mustang.

I think the same.

[VilleV]

Edited photo of a Firetruck on Washington Avenue

[wreckmaster]

American firetrucks looks cool:cool: But to be honest, all american trucks are crap compared to europeans:eek:

[VilleV]

Try to bear with me, here are again some photos from Miami.

My (second) favorite modern american muscle car, The Challenger, and some apartment buildings, or condominiums as Americans call them, from Miami Beach South Pointe:

[wreckmaster]

Nice photos Ville! As always:icon_thumleft:

[VilleV]

I found this photo while I was going through last summers photos from Santorini and I remembered that we have at least a couple of Smart drivers here on the forum!

The General Lee re-invented::cool:

[Stormi]

Respect :cool:

[wreckmaster]

Smart trying to be meanlollol

[VilleV]

To my recollection these car photos havent been on here before. They are taken in Miami last winter.

R8 V10 and the RR are rentals! Wonder what the daily rate is... And as you might notice someone has dented the RR!:eek: That must be cheap.. Someone really messed up that Quatroporte with those alloys!:p

[.Lefteris.]

I just love this RR, maybe... some day.... ;)

[5OO]

American firetrucks looks cool:cool: But to be honest, all american trucks are crap compared to europeans:eek:
:eek:lol American firetrucks are pretty awesome, I've always wanted to drive one since I was little.

[wreckmaster]

:eek:lol American firetrucks are pretty awesome, I've always wanted to drive one since I was little.

I have never driven an actual american fire truck, but I have driven a lot of others:eek: I used to work for the only company in Norway which uses only american trucks:(:( And all of them are really bad when it comes to comfort compared to europeans:confused: I dont understand why they are like european trucks from the 50`s and 60`s to drive really! I have driven Freightliners, Kenworths, GMCs , Chevrolets and Internationals and the all suck:eek: compared to Volvos, Scanias, M.A.N`s and european built Nissans:rolleyes:

Here is a picture from my wedding back in 2003lol The freightliner was our wedding carlol

[VilleV]

Now that´s a great wedding car!:cool:

[wreckmaster]

Now that´s a great wedding car!:cool:

Guttemamma was pretty unsure about the car at first toughlollol And she was pretty embarresed when the local newspaper came and made an article about it beeing used as an wedding car:) Good advertising for Falck tough:cool:

[VilleV]

Images from Miami Beach:

[.Lefteris.]

Nice! :icon_thumleft:

[.Lefteris.]

..............
Here is a picture from my wedding back in 2003lol The freightliner was our wedding carlol
Best photo ever!!! :icon_thumright:

[wreckmaster]

Best photo ever!!! :icon_thumright:

:thanks2:

[Stormi]

Wrecky: Great idea & a picture one of a kind :icon_thumright:

Ville : Nice :icon_thumright: Again !

+ like the snow effect lol ;)

[VilleV]

Greetings from chilly New york!:cool: Here´s a photo from today, sorry about the big size. I dont have any editing program on this mini laptop...

[Scuderia-F1]

Greetings from chilly New york!:cool: Here´s a photo from today, sorry about the big size. I dont have any editing program on this mini laptop...

Awesome pic!:icon_thumleft:

[wreckmaster]

Nice picture Ville:icon_thumleft: Are you guys having a good time "over there" ?

Any 500`s?lollol

[VilleV]

I´m back home now, we had a great time in the Big Apple! Altough I must say that the time of year and the weather could have been better, a bit cold this time of year over there.

Didn´t see any 500s yet, not even in Little Italy. ;) I did spot some Smarts and loads of Minis tho.

It seems that the forum has been really active with almost 80 new post in one week! That´s the way to go!!:icon_thumleft:

So, pics like this are sure to follow once I find the time to go through them. Here´s a view looking south from the Empire State building:

[VilleV]

Here´s a photo of the Flatiron building on the corner of Broadway and 5th Avenue. Early morning light on a cold winters day:

[Pethead]

Really very nice pictures Villev!!!

[VilleV]

Ok, the NY theme continues. First couple of photos are obviously from Timesquare, followed by one from Pershing Square right in front of the Grand Central station, one from Pier 17 and finally one of the New Yorker hotel on a rainy night:

[.Lefteris.]

I just love them all! :thanks2:

[Stormi]

X 2 ! Hip hurray for Ville :icon_thumright:

[wreckmaster]

X 2 ! Hip hurray for Ville :icon_thumright:

X3!!!! You are a true photograpic champion Ville:icon_thumleft:

[VilleV]

^lol

Dont know about that, but New York sure makes it easy to find stuff to take photos of!!!

[VilleV]

And again, a couple more photos:

[wreckmaster]

Nice pictures again Ville! The colors in your photographs are amazing, so much more alive than other photos! Liked the chevy comercial in the first pic which says: Like a Corolla, with everything you wantslollol

[Abarthlyness]

Ville, you are too modest:icon_thumright:

Every one of these pictures is EPIC!

Good show:cool:

[Il Consigliere]

Great photos Ville! Would be nice to hear what's your equipment in these photos, especially lenses.

I got a new Canon S95 compact for Xmas present and I'm very pleased with it. Handy and excellent low light performance. I was thinking DSLRs also, but preferred small size over other features.

Unfortunatelly I have had only booked and cancelled holiday trips lately.

[VilleV]

Great photos Ville! Would be nice to hear what's your equipment in these photos, especially lenses.

I got a new Canon S95 compact for Xmas present and I'm very pleased with it. Handy and excellent low light performance. I was thinking DSLRs also, but preferred small size over other features.

Unfortunatelly I have had only booked and cancelled holiday trips lately.


I´m still using my first ever DSLR camera Canon 1000d body, but with Sigma 17-70mm f/2.8-4 macro lens. It´s not an expencive lens costing around 400 euros, but in my opinion it´s a decent enough all-arounder. I have to admit it´s a bit tiring to carry it around all the time being so big, so that in mind a compact camera is definitely a lot nicer.:rolleyes: It´s just the speed of the camera and the options when taking a shot that give the DSLR the edge!

With any shot I take I always try to think what I can do with it in post-processing. Many of the photos I´ve posted are so called HDR photos, which means that they are compined of three or even more photos of the same thing or view, but exposures of the photos are different. Usually I use a program called "easyHDR" for compining the images and then do the rest of the editing with paint shop pro or photoshop.

[5OO]

Great photos Ville! Would be nice to hear what's your equipment in these photos, especially lenses.

I got a new Canon S95 compact for Xmas present and I'm very pleased with it. Handy and excellent low light performance. I was thinking DSLRs also, but preferred small size over other features.

Unfortunatelly I have had only booked and cancelled holiday trips lately.

I felt the same way so I picked up a Panasonic GF1 which is the Micro 4/3 standard, its sized like closer to a compact camera but has interchangeable lens and performance more like a DSLR. I think its a perfect size camera for traveling. Check it out some of the Panasonic and the Olympus models.

I´m still using my first ever DSLR camera Canon 1000d body, but with Sigma 17-70mm f/2.8-4 macro lens. It´s not an expencive lens costing around 400 euros, but in my opinion it´s a decent enough all-arounder. I have to admit it´s a bit tiring to carry it around all the time being so big, so that in mind a compact camera is definitely a lot nicer.:rolleyes: It´s just the speed of the camera and the options when taking a shot that give the DSLR the edge!

With any shot I take I always try to think what I can do with it in post-processing. Many of the photos I´ve posted are so called HDR photos, which means that they are compined of three or even more photos of the same thing or view, but exposures of the photos are different. Usually I use a program called "easyHDR" for compining the images and then do the rest of the editing with paint shop pro or photoshop.

First off amazing pictures VilleV! I want to poke into HDR pictures, i'll check out EasyHDR. :icon_thumleft:

[VilleV]

I want to poke into HDR pictures, i'll check out EasyHDR. :icon_thumleft:

Thanks!:rolleyes:

I think HDR is a very good technique if you´re taking a shot in challenging lighting conditions and you want to expose both dark and bright areas well! It´s quite easy actually if you have a bracketing feature in your camera. This feature allows you to expose three or more consecutive shot differently.

[VilleV]

Here´s another photo of the famous Flatiron building, and then one from the City hall park and finally a couple of photos from the top of the Empire State Building:

[Il Consigliere]

Usually I use a program called "easyHDR" for compining the images and then do the rest of the editing with paint shop pro or photoshop.

Unfortunatelly easyHDR is not supported for Mac. Seems like Photomatix is a popular tool in Mac environment. Have just been too busy to even shoot photos and now I would need to find time for this also. :rolleyes:

It's a interesting new world that HDR would open. I have heard about it earlier but Ville's pics just took the curiosity to new level. :icon_thumleft:

[VilleV]

Unfortunatelly easyHDR is not supported for Mac. Seems like Photomatix is a popular tool in Mac environment. Have just been too busy to even shoot photos and now I would need to find time for this also. :rolleyes:





That´s okay because Photomatix is a better program anyway!:icon_thumleft: For some reason Im just used to EasyHDR, same as I´m more used to Jasc Paint shop pro instead of Photoshop.

[Il Consigliere]

This is not a holiday photo but a practice pic for the next holiday trip to Rome.

http://i1204.photobucket.com/albums/bb419/il_consigliere/IMG_0111IMG_0112IMG_0113IMG_0114.jpg

This is also my first HDR pic edited with freeware called HDRtist. There is no other editing done. It was a very bright light coming from the window. You can see that the wall colour is not perfect (it's white), but I'm surprised how easily you can get decent results. This was combined from 4 pics.

[VilleV]

Now there you go!:icon_thumleft: Very nice work indeed and I really like the sharpness and the clarity of the photo! This is a very good example of a situation where you can use the advantages of HDR to your benefit, taking a photo indoors where it´s relatively dark and you have a bright light coming from a window!