Recent content by BraindG

Regarding Vid 1 - don't forget that you need to tell a story, which should consist of a beginning, a middle and an end - i found it somewhat distracting to be presented with a static shot of a car with not real reason throughout the video, the prolonged footage of country lanes was also somewhat...

Mike, was waiting for you to post these here! - saw them on FB, ignoring the sunflare discussions above i find the re-edits of these images fantastic, you've taken the time to learn some new skills in PS, applied them and made some great images even better! - good job dude.

oh, firewalls! :) Looks good, i see you forgot to turn of head torch :P Don't forget to shoot at high F to prevent any over exposure, once its gone its gone. So stick with low ISO, high F or use an ND and drop F. - underexposing is win with fire, with a few tweaks in PS you can recover so...

Thanks guys, as per post #1 - I couldn't get the tool high enough, so rather than showing the tool and dead space above I chose to go lower - versus cropping in and loose some of the fire effect :( Next time Ill be up much higher allowing for better composition.

I always want to try new things, do something different so I've developed a device to create "Fire Rain" - aka Fire Painting. This was the first ever on location shot, which unfortunately wasn't the most ideal of locations and having to stand 5m behind the car meant i wasnt able to get the...

Thanks for the kind words everyone, it was a real adventure setting up this shot, really enjoyed making it.

I was wanting to do something special with this van, something not yet seen and something that would stir the imagination - I decided to enhance the look of the rat look van and found a rusty barrel, some rusty strapping / pipes and created a little set - yes, i did set the roof on fire! So the...

I'm pretty much self taught, trial and error mostly - However, a few people helped along the way with a pointer or two - The major game changer was from Von Wong, who taught me more about masking, that changed everything for me. This is the original set of images, not very clear i know but...

I have been thinking about adding little easter eggs in each picture, something to look for - keep an eye out for that in future :P

Back in January I took some exposures that I was unable to do anything with, roll on 5 months and with a little more Photoshop knowledge I thought that I would revisit these exposures, to see what I could do, this was the result of one of those experiments. Ultima GTR - Alien by vanelder...

Experimenting with different techniques, was a rubbish location, There were loads of streetlights and other distractions. I had to cut the background out and find something in google to replace it :thumbsdown: - I should start building up a little "stock photo" folder of locations i pass, for...

First of a set of 3 images - Not the best location however we had to resort to a secondary location after primary was unavailable :thumbsdown: #1 Lamborghini Gallardo by vanelder, on Flickr

BTS Video of shoot :thumbs: f6ZBd_uqYFo

Already covered :)

Thank you for nice words and feedback - I agree, thinking about it, some mud and dirt would really have helped, I'll take this on board for the next in the series.