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Further explanation of the theme, provided by ijkhk4:

"Try to shoot your photo from very high like you are taking picture from a plane or a helicopter. The photo can contain as many cars or no car at all."


CARS: Any (or none)
LOCATIONS: Any
PHOTOTRAVEL: Yes
UNIQUE RESTRICTIONS: See above


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Please, ensure you read and understand all requirements for this competition. Failure to follow
the rules may result in disqualification. If you have questions, send me a Private Message.
This Thread will answer many possible questions you may have.

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    4-day polls. The winners from each faces off in a final 48 hour poll.
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What you may not do to a photo:
  • Alter the geometry of the car. No stickers, or body modifications not available in game.
  • Add shapes or objects from outside of GT5, signatures excepted.
  • Add lens flares or "artistic" filters to image.
  • Remove items from shot (scenery, other cars).
  • Use more than 1 image (HDR, photo-stitching, multi-exposure).
  • "Creative cropping". The main "image" must be four-sided, with 90-degree, upright corners.
  • Selective car colour changing: masking different parts to create racing stripes or similar.

What you may do to a photo:
  • Crop and/or resize an image.
  • Adjust the level or curve values.
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  • Enhance shadows or highlights (dodge and burn tools in Photoshop, for example).
  • Add noise and/or diffuse glow.
  • Add a post-game tilt-shift blur, or apply a motion blur to a stationary Photomode shot.
  • Make use of Layer Blend Modes.
  • Use a Sharpening filter and/or tool.
  • Scale or enlarge rims.
  • Remove or modify license plates.
  • Remove the GT watermark.
  • Add a personal signature.
  • Clean up or fix jaggies, texture pixelation, or colour separation.
  • Add a vignette effect.
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29.07.12
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a leftover from last weeks GT300/500 shoot :)

Thought I'd go for a night flight instead :sly:

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^^ Very nice how can you get that high? By one of the available camera angle or you need some special trick to get that high?
 
This has always puzzled me too. Do you need a special card or something to take screen shots?
 
No trickery or screengrab....... just stumbled on one of the static cams on that particular track. :sly:
 
^^ Very nice how can you get that high? By one of the available camera angle or you need some special trick to get that high?

It's one of the available camera angles. The disadvantages of these angles are that you have very little turning space allowed (the camera is fixed), but the benefits are that they can get really high up a track, which is something a normal camera angle cannot do ;)

So I suggest you to experiment with those angles, and with some zoom-up, they can get really good! :)👍
 
Cheers - thanks for the heads up (no pun intended).

GT6 wishlist: free-roaming cameras.

💡
 
Good start, Shafty! 👍

A few tracks will have camera angles like that. I can think of HSR and Eiger off the top of my head...and maybe Cape Ring.
 
Damnit Mitch, why can't you wait until the end of the week before obliterating us all with your awesomeness!. :sly:
 
OK. New rule. All you guys that are gonna have these "blow everything out of the water" shots need to wait until Friday before you can post. Give us little guys some hope!
 
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Back to the drawing board. 🤬
 
What the... :drool:

Gonna have to dedicate a day to get a shot that's even close to the quality of the ones I've seen here so far.
 
Y'know, I actually thought I was getting pretty good at this photomode lark until I tried a shoot for this. Damn it's tough!

Don't want to use Toscana - everyone will be on it - and have tried Cape Ring and Route X so far. It's so hard trying to get that killer view!

This is a tough task this week.

:scared:
 
Miklad
It's so hard trying to get that killer view!

+1
I went to La Sarthe with the XJ13 at like 5:30 in the morning expecting that there would be one of these camera angles and have potentially a killer shot on the Mulsane, but there was no such static cam! :grumpy:
 
I pick this theme because I don't know how to take these shots either. Really jaw dropping entries so far. Please keep them coming. I will try to take a few shots myself too :cheers:
 
Mitch, I could see you and I in a tie this week by my opinion. I'm eager to push you behind with my entry. CCS & DarkR will be next to you in the loser's circle. :sly:
 
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