Gees, Bravada, you've got photos that could easily make great wallpaper! - Daniel Blanchette 01:55, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
OK, so I see it's a no from Steve, a yes from Daniel and a 50/50 from Gerd (as the blue Citroen and champagne Alfa are not my pics, please check the captions :D ). Unfortunately, the cars in my photos were facing southwards and it was late in the day, so you can guess the rest :D The photos were digitally manipulated of course - not only I had to remove license plate numbers, but also I had a corner of the street and some people behind the Alfa, so I had to create some fake hedge in the upper-right corner, while the Citroen was "enhanced" by some birds, so I cleaned it up :D I used GIMP as a) I wanted to make it as "free" as possible b) I don't have PhotoShop on this computer, and I've found out that meddling with brightness, hue, stauration and all the other nice stuff is not that easy there, so there they are...
Why C3 and Alfa? Well, the C3 is a very good pic encyclopedia-wise, but I hate how the license plate is done, it is a base version with plastic wheel covers and those black appliques (I hate those :D) and there are some cars in the background - still, my C3 is not very encyclopedic, you can barely see the front :( As concerns Alfa, the previous shot is very aggressive, but there is this guy there and I guess you can't really get a good idea of how the car looks like.
Now, you've got the pics in the Commons, so let's do it that way - if you think they are good enough, put them in the articles, perhaps replacing the pics you find less appealing.
Bravada,
talk -
10:35, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
PS. It is probably going to be sunny for a few more days, so are there any cars you'd like me to do photos of?
I was actually referring to the Red Alfa, which states "my picture" in the caption. Sorry about the confusion ;-) Signature brendel 17:58, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
I've spent another afternoon on a photo spree rather than doing something useful... As usual, please have a look at them and tell me which ones (if any) would it make sense inserting in the respective articles, which ones are completely worthless and should rather be deleted etc. - all comments welcome! If some PhotoShop pro could take care of those I would be most grateful - my skills in this area are seriously limited, not to mention time. Which is why I still haven't removed license plate numbers from some vehicles, but still I have uploaded them to see whether it would make any sense to do so, and in hope some merciful user would help me with that... Thanks a lot in advance, everybody! Bravada, talk - 21:58, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
Gees, Bravada, you've got photos that could easily make great wallpaper! - Daniel Blanchette 01:55, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
OK, so I see it's a no from Steve, a yes from Daniel and a 50/50 from Gerd (as the blue Citroen and champagne Alfa are not my pics, please check the captions :D ). Unfortunately, the cars in my photos were facing southwards and it was late in the day, so you can guess the rest :D The photos were digitally manipulated of course - not only I had to remove license plate numbers, but also I had a corner of the street and some people behind the Alfa, so I had to create some fake hedge in the upper-right corner, while the Citroen was "enhanced" by some birds, so I cleaned it up :D I used GIMP as a) I wanted to make it as "free" as possible b) I don't have PhotoShop on this computer, and I've found out that meddling with brightness, hue, stauration and all the other nice stuff is not that easy there, so there they are...
Why C3 and Alfa? Well, the C3 is a very good pic encyclopedia-wise, but I hate how the license plate is done, it is a base version with plastic wheel covers and those black appliques (I hate those :D) and there are some cars in the background - still, my C3 is not very encyclopedic, you can barely see the front :( As concerns Alfa, the previous shot is very aggressive, but there is this guy there and I guess you can't really get a good idea of how the car looks like.
Now, you've got the pics in the Commons, so let's do it that way - if you think they are good enough, put them in the articles, perhaps replacing the pics you find less appealing.
Bravada,
talk -
10:35, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
PS. It is probably going to be sunny for a few more days, so are there any cars you'd like me to do photos of?
I was actually referring to the Red Alfa, which states "my picture" in the caption. Sorry about the confusion ;-) Signature brendel 17:58, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
I've spent another afternoon on a photo spree rather than doing something useful... As usual, please have a look at them and tell me which ones (if any) would it make sense inserting in the respective articles, which ones are completely worthless and should rather be deleted etc. - all comments welcome! If some PhotoShop pro could take care of those I would be most grateful - my skills in this area are seriously limited, not to mention time. Which is why I still haven't removed license plate numbers from some vehicles, but still I have uploaded them to see whether it would make any sense to do so, and in hope some merciful user would help me with that... Thanks a lot in advance, everybody! Bravada, talk - 21:58, 22 June 2006 (UTC)