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UPDATE: This started off as a thread just about my trip through the Blue Ridge Parkway but I am going to try and keep everything for this car in one place so I am going to turn it into my build thread as well.


Well two weekends I went home to my parents to shoot a car a friend was building for SEMA. On the way I decided to take a small detour for about 2 hours onto a section of the Blue Ridge Parkway. It was my first time driving it and I have to say it was absolutely beautiful since the leaves were beginning to change.

The road was a great drive as well however with reading about how large the fines are being National Park Roads I decided to stay relatively close to the speed limit. The traffic was pretty minimal on the road as well so I was definitely able to enjoy it and the F was absolute blast.

I took some pictures of both the amazing scenery as well as got some good shots of the F as well.
























Pics of the F with the amazing fall back drop.


















Like I said I was going home to shoot my friends SEMA build car in hope that we will be able to get it featured after it is debuted at SEMA. When I went out to scout some locations for the shoot I used the F to test the lighting and actually got some good shots that were all done in only like 5min of walking around checking out the two locations I had in mind.

First pic is of the gf wishing we were doing something else rather than driving around checking out shoot locations. Actually she was a good sport since we hung out at the shop for 90% of the weekend so I could continue to shoot the build process I had started shooting the weekend before till they finished on Sunday.














 

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Nice IS-F.

You should try a GND filter for the scenery pics. Some of the sky is overexposed.
 

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colors are oversaturated in almost all of them, but good eye.
a suggestion for road shots, use the wide angle in a vertical position and then crop the warp/bends in post processing to your liking. gives a nice feeling to pictures like that.
 

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colors are oversaturated in almost all of them, but good eye.
a suggestion for road shots, use the wide angle in a vertical position and then crop the warp/bends in post processing to your liking. gives a nice feeling to pictures like that.
Yeah I am sure the colors are all out of wack. I am processing lately on my laptop which is calibrated but still not really that great. My desktop has been out of commission for a while which is what I normally edit on with two calibrated 23in Apple Cinema displays which are amazingly color true for LCDs. I really need to stop putting it off and take time and get it back up and running.
 

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WOW beautiful pictures! As well as the IS-F!
 

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Wow. A lot of those pictures are commercial quality. Ever think of selling them to Lexus? They could put them in a magazine or calendar. Looks GOOD!
 

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lol? selling pictures to lexus.
anywho....
what body are you shooting on these days jason?
 

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lol? selling pictures to lexus.
anywho....
what body are you shooting on these days jason?
yeah I wish I was good enough to shoot for lexus :sad:

I am still shooting with the my D300. I would love to upgrade to a D700 but I have invested way to much in Nikon Digital Specific glass and don't shoot for profit enough or hardly ever right now to try and even partially absorb the cost. So at this point it will be my body until a D300 replacement comes out. Which will hopefully have 1080p video as well and be out by around summer. If the D7000 was any idea of what should be in the D300 replacement then things are looking great I think.
 

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Nice pics. I would be so tempted to just let it rip on a road like that.
Yeah me too:laugh:

The road was a great drive as well however with reading about how large the fines are being National Park Roads I decided to stay relatively close to the speed limit. The traffic was pretty minimal on the road as well so I was definitely able to enjoy it and the F was absolute blast.
Define your use of "relatively" in that sentence.
 

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Well two weekends I went home to my parents to shoot a car a friend was building for SEMA. On the way I decided to take a small detour for about 2 hours onto a section of the Blue Ridge Parkway. It was my first time driving it and I have to say it was absolutely beautiful since the leaves were beginning to change.

The road was a great drive as well however with reading about how large the fines are being National Park Roads I decided to stay relatively close to the speed limit. The traffic was pretty minimal on the road as well so I was definitely able to enjoy it and the F was absolute blast.

I took some pictures of both the amazing scenery as well as got some good shots of the F as well.
























Pics of the F with the amazing fall back drop.
















Like I said I was going home to shoot my friends SEMA build car in hope that we will be able to get it featured after it is debuted at SEMA. When I went out to scout some locations for the shoot I used the F to test the lighting and actually got some good shots that were all done in only like 5min of walking around checking out the two locations I had in mind.

First pic is of the gf wishing we were doing something else rather than driving around checking out shoot locations. Actually she was a good sport since we hung out at the shop for 90% of the weekend so I could continue to shoot the build process I had started shooting the weekend before till they finished on Sunday.














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Yeah me too:laugh:



Define your use of "relatively" in that sentence.
10mph over. I think one time I let it rip for a second to 15mph over.
 
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