Minthara's happy trail

thank you c:

aside from the odd tip gleaned here and there: i have no idea how good it actually is as teaching material, but for theory i've actually just been skimming the English Wikipedia and then trying near immediately to put to use what i've read.
sometimes i also go and bug my gf who has a photography degree >:) (she keeps telling me to stop being so heavy handed on contrast. i refuse)

for technical stuff like long exposure or my recent attempts at tilt-shift, a lot of it is fucking around trying to replicate the effect i want by "misusing" existing tools rather than anything concrete.
for example to get proper trails i used the RealLongExposure shader at max ISO and gamma while turning the game's exposure way down so that, by the shader compensating, the lighting would look natural but the light trails would pop a bit more. then i enhanced the effect in post to properly saturate their colours and toning down the blurred car bodies mingled in between