Def not as nice as Turbo.... but my winter view....

took some shots the other day....










could not get a good one without reflections...but heck, its a palm tree...hehehehe





all shot with the 10-22

 that JP bumper is really only a tad more than 1/2 an inch lower than the stock bumper (no lip)  pretty crazy huh... but yeah, the reason I can't lower a tad more b/c of the front bumper clearance and the exhaust clearance...or lack of... if I lower a tad more....

thanks for the helpful hints... now I guess I just need to understand the terms...

"recovery"  how do I do this?

"boost of fill"....?


thanks...  I know the time of day was not optimal...I just had a couple minuets...had the camera, pulled over in an area that I thought may have some spots to shoot and tried to practice....  good thing it did not snow too much that day....

Nice clean car!!  Yeah, the bumper is so low, but spotless!  Do you drive this car at all?? LOL

I think the 2nd picture is out of focus.  Watch out for that!

I like the 1st picture best! 

What software are you using for your raw converter?  ie, what program are you using to open the raw file?

Ah, well once you get a decent raw converter you will understand what I was saying a lot more.  Basically what I was saying (also talking about the post processing) would be to use the recovery which brings down only the highest of highlights down a bit which will darken the entire picture a tad then use the "fill light" slider which adjusts only the mid tones to bring them up a bit to counter act the darkening of the highlights.  This will even out the picture a bit.  Because the intense sun down there you will probably find yourself doing this more times then not.  Especially until you get a polarizer or some sort of filter on your lens to do it for you.  Overall your getting better though, thinking more about composition.  One big suggestion that you can hopefully do with even your current software would be to keep looking for locations and to crop.  The concrete wall in number two is a bit distracting and takes away from the it must suck to be stuck in winter Hawaii shots...   When looking for a location its not just what you can see, but also think about what you should probably hide.