Comments: reflected ferrari

I am disgusted that you can get such great composition and focus from holding a camera out of a sunroof! Other mere mortals have no hope...

Posted by seriocomic at May 1, 2006 04:00 AM

Sam, that is a bomb pic! very nice. from the red ferrari to the crane and to the old building (or what looks like an old building) at the end of the shot.

Posted by Ige Egal at May 1, 2006 04:09 AM

very very nice picture.

Posted by Marinus at May 1, 2006 04:28 AM

Amazing Shot! Really really enjoyed waking up to this image this morning! Thanx Sam

Posted by Ryan at May 1, 2006 04:31 AM

Good catch on this 'lucky' shot! Nice wide view too.

Posted by Robin at May 1, 2006 04:48 AM

Well, if this is what the 10-22 will do ‘blind’, I just can’t wait for you to get behind the camera ! What a shot !!

Posted by AG at May 1, 2006 04:53 AM

this is a stunnig composition; hard to belive you were shooting blidly...

Posted by melyviz at May 1, 2006 05:02 AM

Great Reflection of the flaming red car in the windscreen of your friend's car.. if ur camera sees things with such perfectiona and with this perspective.. we are deprived of the images your mind stores through your eyes....

great work...

Posted by Shikher at May 1, 2006 05:05 AM

Ha! I'd say you accomplished that quite well! Excellent comp (that reflection is badass) and I'm jealous of the lens; has a crispness to it that screams cinema.

Posted by Jessyel Ty Gonzalez at May 1, 2006 05:35 AM

The colours in this are spectacular.

Posted by john at May 1, 2006 05:47 AM

That pic is totally irresistible :D make you WANT one of these objects ;) witch one now??

Posted by عالیجناب منتقد at May 1, 2006 05:57 AM

Look great! Did you use a polarizing filter?

Posted by Felix at May 1, 2006 06:00 AM

unbelievable. this is fantastic. the colors of that ferrari are so rich.

Posted by Jesse at May 1, 2006 06:01 AM

really cool picture!

Posted by vg at May 1, 2006 06:21 AM

wicked!

Posted by suzi q. at May 1, 2006 06:28 AM

Cracking shot. Love the processing. The sky isn't blown out, the buildings look great. Its so wide you could make 2 shots out of it. :)

Posted by Pete Carr at May 1, 2006 06:42 AM

Very impressive picture. The picture has a special tone I like, I do not know if it is the postprocessing or what. I looks almost cartoonish

Posted by Gustav Jensen at May 1, 2006 06:47 AM

Blind shot ?!! The composition is perfect, full of surprises.

Posted by antoine at May 1, 2006 06:59 AM

I've noticed something in a few of your pictures lately that confuses me .. maybe you or someone else can explain. In this case, it's the buildings on the left and right of the picture - they look so surreal. They look like a blend of a picture and CG and a painting and I can't figure out exactly what it is about them.

In some pictures I figure it's longer exposures (like inside the brickworks, where theres this "glow" to things), but in this case you were doing handheld out the top of a car, so no tripod, so no long exposure.

Is this effect happening in photoshop?

I am most curious because I really like the effect, but I find it strange when it breaks the shot into an area of "strange" (the buildings, and some extent, the sky) and the car which looks like a typical photograph.

Cheers!

Posted by Todd at May 1, 2006 07:00 AM

That lens is great!
But so expensive - and it is the only real wide angle for Canon APS-C cameras, isn't it?
Oh, and the composition *is* very nice here ;)

Posted by Christian at May 1, 2006 07:09 AM

Well you certainly nailed the composition on this shot!! It looks like an advert!

Posted by Neil at May 1, 2006 07:46 AM

wow. the composition is excellent :)
i really like it
how much did you have to straighten/crop?

Posted by Dacian at May 1, 2006 07:53 AM

you got this by shooting blindly out the top of a car?!?! whoa.

Posted by rachel at May 1, 2006 08:04 AM

Brilliant. And so "Bay and Bloor".

Posted by David S. at May 1, 2006 08:10 AM

mmmmm, is that a 355 F1 GTS?

Posted by Bryan at May 1, 2006 08:43 AM

Very nice! I like how this one captured the reflection in the windshield. Great job!

Posted by Alice at May 1, 2006 09:13 AM

Waoooow, exceptional shot. The symmetry, the composition and the ferrari for sure are beautiful :)

Posted by djam at May 1, 2006 09:32 AM

Good buy! I have had my 10-22 for almost 1 year now, and have had great success with it.

Posted by The Photomat at May 1, 2006 09:35 AM

WOW! You should shoot blindly more often!

Posted by micki at May 1, 2006 09:37 AM

Great shot Sam! I love the new lens...I think I'll look into getting one myself!

Posted by Dave MacIntyre at May 1, 2006 09:44 AM

Nice, very nice. Sounds like a great lens, and this shot definitely proves it.

Posted by A thinker at May 1, 2006 09:51 AM

really nice lens sam!

Posted by patola at May 1, 2006 09:59 AM

Very nice, great colors. The buildings aren't distorted at all -- was this 1) a happy coincidence, 2) a perspective-shift lens, or 3) correction in Photoshop?

Posted by Ryan at May 1, 2006 10:23 AM

Certainly gets a square, no distortion and sharp image, but I'm more into telephoto for use in the country. This may be more useful when your squashed into the noisy city atmosphere with your back on the wall - so to speak.

I spent a lot of time in this area 40 years ago and it is now totally unrecognizable to me. Amazing!

For a random shot - unbelievable. But not great art.

Posted by Hugh Petrie at May 1, 2006 10:26 AM

wow sam, what the hell did you do to this photo to achieve such a clean look. the ferrari infront just ads to this picture so much. you sure do have a lot of these "just pointed and got lucky" situations, heh. given to us by the camera gods you are.

Posted by shane at May 1, 2006 10:30 AM

Marjan drives a Volvo, right? Am I right or am I right?

Posted by furt at May 1, 2006 10:30 AM

"shooting a number of shots 'blindly' " ??? More like Blind luck. ha ha ha. -wish I had that kind of luck. What a great shot.

Posted by ryan at May 1, 2006 10:48 AM

I've already said this, and I will again:
I love, and hate, you both equally at the same time. Just awesome.

...I SOOO need a 350d... 1/3 the cost saved, 2/3 to go!

Posted by BHSG at May 1, 2006 10:49 AM

Hoping for good composition? Maybe I should start to shoot blind, too : )

Good shot...

Posted by Josh at May 1, 2006 10:53 AM

Somehow this minds me of Outrun!

Posted by Haakon at May 1, 2006 11:02 AM

Quite hard to beleive that this was shot so blindly! its absolutely amazing :)

Great details and the contrast is magnifficant.

It does have a sort of surreal look to it, which is almost similar to a computer game (albeit a high graphic game beyond what we could have today)

:P

Posted by JD at May 1, 2006 11:40 AM

Nice.. one of your best yet, Sam. Impressive!

Posted by Michael at May 1, 2006 11:44 AM

Bryan: It's a Ferrari 348ts.

Posted by Martin at May 1, 2006 12:02 PM

everyones car looks soooo clean.

Posted by stefanie at May 1, 2006 12:04 PM

This is art! I am so impressed.

Posted by jean at May 1, 2006 12:11 PM

Super shot Sam! I really like this. Did you play with the Channel Mixer to get colours like these? I really like the way the shot is composed.

Posted by Ali at May 1, 2006 12:18 PM

one of your best.

Posted by Victor at May 1, 2006 12:24 PM

imho, this is the best shot here in a long while

Posted by schmee at May 1, 2006 12:25 PM

Awesome!

Posted by Ashish Sidapara at May 1, 2006 01:09 PM

The shots you take 'blind' are of a quality I can only hope to achieve sometime in the distant future - while looking!

It really is so crisp and yummy.

Posted by Vivi at May 1, 2006 01:21 PM

Thanks,Ferrari!

Posted by Harlequinpan at May 1, 2006 01:39 PM

Nice. 1 ferrari and 3 reflections. (wonder if anyone else noticed the 3 reflections of that ferrari and not just 1)

Posted by Angel at May 1, 2006 01:42 PM

Wicked Photo...What are the chances of 2 Photoblogs carrying a Ferrari? What an nice coincidence. I posted myself a Ferrari for today's shot which could be seen on my blog.

I used a Kit Lens so don't expect anything like Sam's Photo.

Your Lens is quite a tool...Im just amazed at the reflectiong of the Ferrari on your friend's car...Mindblowing !

SunRoof Shooting looks fun...hehe

Posted by Philippe at May 1, 2006 01:43 PM

That is a brilliant shot! Not to mention an amazing car that's ahead of you. I think I'll always remember this picture when I walk through that intersection now :)

Posted by sharm at May 1, 2006 01:44 PM

Great, I like the reflection on the hood.

Posted by Matthew Greco at May 1, 2006 02:37 PM

Your "blind" shots are better than most people trying to get a shot. That is wide, I wasn't expecting to see the reflection on the windsheild as well. What type of filter do you use to get the super "clean" look?

Posted by Steve LLamb at May 1, 2006 03:07 PM

Thats a very very nice picture! (but i love all of them ;-) )

Posted by Daniel at May 1, 2006 03:29 PM

absolutely stunning!

Posted by rob at May 1, 2006 03:30 PM

Excellent (wide) angle!

Posted by AirBete at May 1, 2006 04:03 PM

I'm going to start shooting blind now. Why think when you can get results like this by sticking your hand out the window. Seriously speaking; this is a great picture.

Posted by peter at May 1, 2006 04:04 PM

You shot this blindly!?!?

I can't even come close when I can see exactly what I am trying to do. Geez!

I think I need to quit now.

This is amazing.

Posted by Laurie at May 1, 2006 04:07 PM

Considering this was shot "blindly" I don't know if its art (but who's to say?). I like, I've done this kind of thing before, but I've never gotten anything close to this before.

Posted by A.R. at May 1, 2006 04:18 PM

that is really impressive. it is not a type of shot that you usually see! great wark sam.

Posted by armeen at May 1, 2006 04:38 PM

wow Bay Street is HOT. No wonder everyone wants to work in its offices! Just look at that scene :D

Posted by Peggy at May 1, 2006 04:48 PM

*bows* Simply amazing, you are a true master of the art.

Posted by Kyle at May 1, 2006 05:00 PM

Dude!! This looks almost exactly like a video game!! How in the world did you manage to get behind a Ferrari like that!! Talk about being in the right place at the right time. This is really awesome Sam.

Posted by Nate at May 1, 2006 05:56 PM

How do you do to get that realistic photos? ?

Posted by enric at May 1, 2006 06:07 PM

great!

Posted by Rui at May 1, 2006 06:23 PM

bloody fantastic!

Posted by Tom at May 1, 2006 06:40 PM

Impressive.

Posted by mohsen rasoulov at May 1, 2006 06:46 PM

Wonderful shot. I love shooting blind and trying to compose.

Posted by Brian at May 1, 2006 07:00 PM

Nice wide angle shot with lots of detail. I have the Sigma 10-20mm lens and have to say it's very good and well built.

I wouldn't mind the car in front for myself. I have to say the first thing I thought of was that classic Outrun arcade game.

Posted by Paul Woolrich at May 1, 2006 07:06 PM

THE BEST PHOTO YET!!!!!!! AMAZING....I LOVE IT! :)

keep on doing wat you are doing!

Posted by andrea at May 1, 2006 08:02 PM

wow!!!!

Posted by shula at May 1, 2006 08:05 PM

AMAZING shot Sam! the composition is so cool, you have better suck at random shooting them me!

Posted by Dave at May 1, 2006 08:07 PM

i love this blog - i have it linked on my own. but i think, given the uniqueness of the project, as a documentation of toronto, that you should really stick to toronto. it's an invaluable project for a city to be documented like this. but when you include pictures of oxford, and ottawa, it really seems to undermine the coherence of the project.

what you are doing is narrating the identity of the city. so random lines from other places just confuse the code ... that's my feeling - best wishes!

Posted by cc omadagain at May 1, 2006 09:43 PM

You f*cking kill me!!!
(I leave the comment area backward-bowing)

Posted by Leo at May 1, 2006 10:53 PM

Hi Sam :
This is a nice shot :)

Posted by Naslidigar at May 1, 2006 11:14 PM

I absolutely love this shot, and the fact that it's a Ferrari in front of you makes it all the more perfect! :)

Posted by Alexandra at May 2, 2006 12:15 AM

amazing... as usual.

Posted by KC at May 2, 2006 12:57 AM

I've been coming to your site for almost a year now, and your pictures never stop amazing me. They're just stunning.

As a "photographer" though, I was hopeing you could help me out on something. You mention a lot about the colour corrections and the curves and such. I'm wondering if you could give me some tips on what to do. Obivously Cameras themselves carry a lot in the term of all around quality you get, but compared to other shots ive seen taken with the Rebel XT, and yours are always far more crisp and clear.

Any tips you could give would be very much appreciated. Thanks!

Posted by Peter at May 2, 2006 01:11 AM

Wow ! That is a good photo :-)

Posted by Jeet at May 2, 2006 02:30 AM

are you sure you didn't set this up?

Posted by tee at May 2, 2006 04:15 AM

Amazing shot and I fully agree with seriocomic

Posted by Navin Harish at May 2, 2006 06:32 AM

it's interesting that the photo was inspired by racing video games - that was my first though when i saw the photo.

excellent work!

Posted by Kevin at May 2, 2006 06:57 AM

i don't really know what to ad about that pics that would not have already been said, but it is ssssssoooooooo amazing!!!

Looks like a drawing or something. Oh yeah, you talked about video games inspirations. Well, you got it right.

You are so talented...

Keep up the great work man.

Posted by nicolas at May 2, 2006 11:40 AM

Peter, I don't think this blog should be limited to Toronto. I don't think he's documenting the city, I think he's capturing certain areas with the intention of showing a new perspective of looking at them. I think most of the photos here are art, not ducumentation.

Posted by A.R. at May 2, 2006 06:30 PM

Wow!!

Posted by Carlos Guzman at May 3, 2006 12:42 AM

Could you post the image as it was straight out of the camera in the forum? Or if you have time, make a little tutorial covering the post-processing you did

Posted by Mike at May 3, 2006 04:52 PM

Ferrari ceartinly looks like taken from videogames. Amazing photo!!

Posted by Darko at May 3, 2006 05:04 PM

I'm not sure I can add anything to what has already been said - but this is absolutely amazing. Congratulations on the new lens; you are already making extremely good use of it!

Thanks for mentioning Capture One - just one more thing to spend money on. ;-)

Posted by Abe at May 4, 2006 04:57 PM

Nice pic. It looks like a 348 GTS. Definately not a 355.

Posted by Lau at May 5, 2006 01:27 PM

Travel

Cheap travel

Posted by Travel at May 7, 2006 10:23 AM

inam khobe

Posted by baran at May 9, 2006 05:31 AM

First of all, I'd like to say i like your photos a lot! And I'm a entusiastic PS user. Really! But in this especific shot, i think it has an artificial look in the sky that bothers me. Maybe the original capture with less post edition. dunno... but it's just my opinion. hope you understand it :)
Congrats on your work here!

Posted by Guilherme at May 10, 2006 03:55 PM

Hello,
Good work, and I agree with your opinion.
Thank you for it!
Kisses,
viavia

Posted by viavia at June 30, 2006 09:39 AM

what an awesome shot, snap!

Posted by Donny at July 14, 2006 04:45 PM

Hi all! What do you think about conflict in Israel?

Posted by Gary at August 8, 2006 06:39 AM

nice pic, its a ferrari 348. The ferrari 355 came later when it replaced this one. the 355 has 4 round lights in the rear. for those who care.

Posted by zak at March 1, 2007 10:01 PM

Great work and pretty colors!

Posted by Medicine svf at March 28, 2007 05:36 AM
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