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Thanks to all, I'm going to take this into consideration and see how it works out next round:) Thanks again for the insights!

Feel free to play with this RAW file if you want. I'm curious to see what everyone else will make of it:) It's the capture of the two Camaros with the cityscape background. Please post it here so we can view it! IMG_9764.CR3

so to me, you crushed the blacks and now there's less details there. I tried passing work similar to what you've done here over to some magazine editors and their response was basically the same, too rendered, not clean. I guess that has caused me to change my output overtime. I also have habits from my portraiture work that cross over into the auto stuff too. Thanks again for the feedback, greatly appreciated.

I used to never mute the colors and it seems that they end up looking over saturated to me personally so I make sure to keep the tones sort of just neutral now. It probably also has to do with my body setup, I often create videos and always capture on a neutral white balance and so on. Thank you for the feedback!

Well, your perspective it what you know:) I get what you're saying though. I will have to brag on the last one a bit because essentially it all comes down to the viewer and in this case, Adam Barry liked the image, he's the creative designer for the Camaro as shown here:) I will try the cropping ration also, I typically use the full frame in body and just crop as my eye sees fit during editing.

I agree with the red Chevy Coupe, this particular image was rendered as an HDR since a lot of my car fans like that sort of thing though I personally don't care for it. I also agree about the distractions though we were in a tight space and all I could do was find a clean area with some leading lines. Keep in mind, most of the car shots are captured within the moment and I have to really do my best with what's around me and the conditions of the day. Thank you for the feedback and I will definitely take these into consideration when I'm capturing my next auto.

Looks like some great work here, I've been known to actually purchase these types of mags and have also been working with Publisher lately. I'm wishing Affinity will come up with a digital flipbook creator or something so we can add a digital magazine option without 3rd party apps.

Update, I think after all the time learning, I have figured it out:) let me know what you think about my recent works if you get this.

confirming that rolling back to v1.9.2 has solved the crash problem, one thing to note for debug, if you open system info>select File>Export you can get a crash report with all pertinent information needed to provide to Affinity techs. I noticed my machine started crashing after the 1.10 upgrade and from the report, Faulting module name: ntdll.dll, version: 10.0.19041.1110 seems to be the culprit.

Thanks to everyone for the responses and I will definitely take it all to heart and consideration in the future works. I have been busy working on dropping the HDR (it was new to me so I went with it) and I've been working on my focus points and working on getting sharper images during my panning shots. So far so good and thanks again.

Hello, I have been using these presets for all of my automotive photography and I normally filter through 3-500 shots from each event and these have saved me a lot of time. I hope they help you all as well. CARZRFUN_LLC_Presets.zip

I am new to photography and the entire post editing process all together. There are a lot of flaws I'm sure but I really enjoy working with Affinity Photo and enjoy all of the work I have seen here thus far. Please enjoy and let me know what could be addressed if you care to share:)