Event Coverage Hot off the Computer - Lonestar Round Up 2016 Photos

Always enjoy your pictures. Thanks for posting.

 

Thanks for your service Shamus

 

Late to the party - I think I do have a rear shot, but I'm not certain - I'll check.

You're very welcome elgringo71 and Stuwillys - thanks!

Shamus thanks for the additional info on the metal of honor recipients and the units they served wtih in the previous post. As Jimmy (gonmad) stated in the last post, thanks for your service and thanks for your service for any other current and former military who are following this thread.

 

Great guys at the shop, Rocco was nice enough to give me back copies of Rodder's Magazine there was a big write up on a car my Dad raced the Magic Muffler Fiat altered He gave me four back copies for free one for each of my kids for a keepsake of there grandpa.

 

Love this !

 

This is so awesome ! You took some beautiful pictures Dan !

 

Thank you for your service Sir ! Y'all are my heros . I'm a proud battlefield combat Navy Corpsman Mama !

 

Great pictures Dan. I enjoyed them, thanks

 

That is so cool that they did that! They are great guys over there.
Thank you Michelle for your very much appreciated comments and contributions.

You're most welcome OLDSMAN - and thanks. Plenty more to come, so check back.

 

That is too sick. Keep them coming....
Larry

 

Thanks a lot Larry (winduptoy) - plenty more to come.

 

Thank you. I always enjoy your pictures. Sam

 

You're welcome and thanks Sam.

 

Dan love the pics , like reliving the roundup all over again! These are the reason I don't take many pics anymore. Keep em coming!

 

Thanks for sharing your pixs Dan. One thing I always notice about your pixs is that they don't look quite real, natural. What type of filter are you using to get that effect?

 

Thanks odass. I hope you have been checking the other threads and non HAMB sources because I miss a lot of cars and skip a lot of them if I don't think I can get a half decent shot.

You're welcome wisdonm. In truth, I use a lot of filters and other techniques depending on the picture. I am not always going for natural per se. A lot of these have had the color pushed a bit, the grass greened up using a filter I made myself with Topaz Clarity, they are more vibrant and contrasty because I used HDR on them ( taking multiple images of the same shot at different exposure levels and blending them later. I use filters from Nik (now owned by Google, Topaz and OnOne) I also try to adjust the ones on line for contrast and color which can look different on different monitors because almost no one has theirs calibrated and many are too bright, too dark, too saturated, to unsaturated, etc. Those things will also make some images look less natural. They almost always look better on my calibrated monitor and printed than they do out on the net. Even the ones that do look pretty natural I have usually done a bit to - the main reason it takes so long to get them all done and posted. Here is a before and after of a very straight forward one that I did not do much to. I did combine 2 exposures in HDR, increased the contrast and color saturation, cleaned up the sky a touch, warmed up the light a little and sharpened it.
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After:

 

thanks for the explanation and demonstration.

 

You're welcome widonm. If you see a specific image and want to know what I used, I can usually give a better answer. Unfortunately there is no one universal answer.

 

Thanks for taking the time to do this. Top notch as usual!

 

You are very welcome, Charley. Thanks for your feedback. Much more still to come.

 

Nail heads seem to be getting very popular again. I sure saw a lot of them at LSRU this year.