Is the background Edited by PS???

[sunkist]

I saw a tutorial about it....It saids slow the shutter speed w/main focus on car..but when i tried it ~everything blur....so how to do it???

 

[DRT2RM]

Sorry, I made a mistake. I'll have to go edit my tutorial, but to achieve the blurred background, use manual focus on the car, use a fast shutter speed, and use a low aperture. The lower aperture will generate the blurred background effect.

 

[Vicious VP]

Sorry, I made a mistake. I'll have to go edit my tutorial, but to achieve the blurred background, use manual focus on the car, use a fast shutter speed, and use a low aperture. The lower aperture will generate the blurred background effect.

That is correct.

The larger the aperture the less depth of field you will have. Ideally, if a blurry BG is your main goal:

• have your car as far from it as possible
• use a large aperture
• and then adjust your shutter speed down to as long as possible, while retaining the result you are looking for.​

The slower shutter will also help a lot in blurring the BG ... as well as the foreground if you go to low.

There are some examples on my ACTUAL picture gallery that show this.

Good luck!

 

[DRT2RM]

That is correct.

The larger the aperture the less depth of field you will have. Ideally, if a blurry BG is your main goal:

• have your car as far from it as possible
• use a large aperture
• and then adjust your shutter speed down to as long as possible, while retaining the result you are looking for.​

The slower shutter will also help a lot in blurring the BG ... as well as the foreground if you go to low.

There are some examples on my ACTUAL picture gallery that show this.

Good luck!

Love your photos 👍 I really like the long exposures on waterfalls/streams - love the effect

I wish I could afford a SLR

 

[Vicious VP]

Love your photos 👍 I really like the long exposures on waterfalls/streams - love the effect

I wish I could afford a SLR

SLR's are not too expensive. That one is a DIGITAL SLR ... about $1200.00 worth w/o any lenses. OUCH!

 

[sunkist]

the shutter speed is about how many????

 

[DRT2RM]

SLR's are not too expensive. That one is a DIGITAL SLR ... about $1200.00 worth w/o any lenses. OUCH!

$1200 is expensive for me Especially for just a hobby ... then again, I spend a lot of money on fixing up my car

 

[DRT2RM]

the shutter speed is about how many????

I usually use 1/4000. The best thing to do is experiment or you'll never learn how how to use all the settings. It's not like you're spending money on film testing out the different settings, so just try out different shutter speeds and see what effects you get.

 

[sunkist]

I usually use 1/4000. The best thing to do is experiment or you'll never learn how how to use all the settings. It's not like you're spending money on film testing out the different settings, so just try out different shutter speeds and see what effects you get.

1/4000???? when i use this setting whole picture will look blur(including the car)
this was how my photo came out

 

[DRT2RM]

Try bumping up the aperture a little bit and manual focus on the car.

 

[sunkist]

Try bumping up the aperture a little bit and manual focus on the car.

Here are the new two photos i tried.....i am not sure if i did it the right way~

 

[DRT2RM]

Looks good to me. Sometimes the car angle might effect how the photo turns out since the back end of the car (or front end, depending on which way the car is facing) might turn out blurry due to the depth of field. Adjusting the aperture and seeing how it turns out is my only advice.

 

[Vicious VP]

Something that I have found helpful in GT4 is to set the MANUAL focus on the CENTER of the car. The game is VEREY picky on how it focuses and you will have to play around a LOT in order to get the perfect shot.

If you focus in on one section and another part of the car is blurry, move your focal point a LITTLE bit. Then just keep moving it till you get the desired picture.

It can take a LONG time to get a good shot, and sometimes, with certain camera angles, you will NEVER get a nice one.

I would also never use an aperture larger (smaller number) then 5.6 - 8 for the shots you have posted thus far. Any wider and you will have focus issues out the butt ...

Also, in order to get a better "stop" in the motion of your car, use a camera angle that is not right on the car. Something that you have to zoom in to over 180mm in order to get proper composition.

In GT4 the closer you are to the car, the faster shutter speed you have to use and the LESS blurry your BG will be. It is because of how the camera is tracking the car.

Just think: if YOU were holding the camera, and a car rushes by at 30 feet away, you will be turning pretty fast to keep up with the speed of the car. Now if it were 100 or more feet away, and you were zoomed in, you would not have to move as much or as quickly on order to track the motion and could therefore use a slower shutter speed.

I hope that that helps ...

Good luck and keep at it! 👍

 

[drfterxl]

what i do to achieve that is
slow shutter speed
zoom out and manual focus on the entire car
then zoom in again
but yea where your camera is in relation to the car will affect the speed it seems to be travelling ie a camera side on to a car doing 100km/h will make it seem faster than if you were facing it head on
there is a greater perception of motion/speed from the side

 

[olskoolkid]

I took a stab at try to get a good blur effect this one turned out good!!
zoomed in as close to cone an focused on it than zoomed out a adjusted the shutter an f stop.

 

[sunkist]

I took a stab at try to get a good blur effect this one turned out good!!
zoomed in as close to cone an focused on it than zoomed out a adjusted the shutter an f stop.

as u say....how come the background doesnt turn out blur???

 

[olskoolkid]

as u say....how come the background doesnt turn out blur???

Because I focused on the cone which is stationary while the car passed behind it

 

[olskoolkid]

This I had F 2.0 shutter 1/60. With manuel focus at car