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Right, I've made a few wallpapers for your PCs available for download from my website.

I've currently only put up 1920x1200 resolution widescreen versions, but if people want different sizes, just ask.

Go here http://photos.martwilliams.com/#16.0 click the letter i above the image to check the file name for the size you want then when you have the right image, click the down arrow above the image to save the file to your pc.

Once downloaded, you should be able to set it as your desktop by right clicking the file and choosing "Set as Desktop"

I've just put these up (don't save these from here as they are too small)











and one of my bus



Regards

Mart

They are awsome pics

The RS4 on silver CHs look perfect!

unreal !!

Using them!!! Ta

Superb, nice work!

Cheers guys

Standard aspect versions now added (4:3)

Captions added below the image to make it easier to identify the size of the image

Mart

nice

Coooooolll. Got a Nikon D40. Thought I cold do something like this (no experience with camera's). Any tips?

Again.Fantastic photo's.

Good post.

Jas.

Need a few lenses + lighting + lots of practice - oh and know your way around certain software aids.

Having a good backdrop is key too...

Not used them yet,but bought a tripod and remote(no shake,thought this would be my first step).

Then catch the light right.

p.s. stumpy-still trying to get those mats.

Jas.

nosaJ wrote:Coooooolll. Got a Nikon D40. Thought I cold do something like this (no experience with camera's). Any tips?

Again.Fantastic photo's.

Good post.

Jas.

Well as Stumpy says, there are quite a few ingredients to getting good shots, or there often is anyway. All of the above shots have had significant post processing, personally I use Nikon Capture NX for most of this.

Generally for car shots I prefer long focal lengths, so start somewhere around 100mm and use the 1.5 times the focal length rule for shutter speed for minimum shutter speed, so if you're shooting at 100mm use at least 1/160.

Keep you ISO low, modern cameras are pretty impressive at keeping noise low at moderate ISO levels but you will be losing detail and colour saturation and if you push your files in processing you will quickly see ugly artifacts, noise and colour banding.

Don't bother trying to light your car with your camera flash, it will be ugly, I have 4 flashes, none of which are used on camera and these really need to be shot through diffuser panells, which currently I don't have. But what you can do is use existing light, so if you are shooting at night find well light areas and use your tripod and long exposures.

Experiment with differnt angles, get down low, get up high, tilt the camera.

Get a circular polarizing lens to cut down on glare from light bouncing of the shiney surfaces.

If you don't have one yet, buy yourself a 50mm f/1.8 lens. Every good photographer has one in his kit and you'll be able to get shots with shallow depth of field and nice out of focus areas, usefull for isolation parts of the image and good for portraits too.

And the one piece of advice you'll always hear is get out there and practice!

Mart

Mart,thanks for all the advice.Much appreciated.A lot of info there.

Love to see things done well-music/films/engineering/architecture...

and of course a car which is all things to all men...a b5 RS4.

Cheers,
Jas.

Hey Jas- are you a poet in your spare time??? Totally agree with your sentiments on getting a proper job done- well said.

rsmonkey-frustrated musician.Worked near guildford in the past-godalmin(?).Stayed at brampton.

What's a gearbox brace ?

Yeah, living mostly in Haslemere, working in Guildford until the swine flu epidemic is over in all probability!! Got friends in Godalming.
Gearbox brace is a drive-train stabiliser (DTS), made by ESP Engineering- actually grounded it this morning going over a neighbours gate stop- tightens up the drivetrain so you get much less 'shunt' when you throttle off, gearknob doesn't vibtrate as much and I think the gearchange is tighened up a bit. The ESP version is really solid and probably helps to brace the bodyshell too!!