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Coooool, I like that…
I think it is too tightly framed, though!
 
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Clever strategy!
… I just had a play with it, very convincing!
 
Lovely take of a super motor!
Can i ask, is the light source coming from the left natural or artificial?
 
i love the mood, find the highlight spot on the roof a little distracting - perhaps just a simple gradient overlay would be better as i cant really see the carbon texture anyway?
 
kman said:
i love the mood, find the highlight spot on the roof a little distracting - perhaps just a simple gradient overlay would be better as i cant really see the carbon texture anyway?
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At low-res/small size you're definitely right. This is edited for print however, so the detail in the carbon is very visible at the size it should be.

Here's a front angle:

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great shots.. very well done.. is there much PP done to these? Whats the lighting on the 2nd shot? Is the first one a long exposure?
 
simply amazing.. god give me one of this toy :)
 
Love the top down shot, if I was to be ultra picky the brake light reflection is a little overpowering and takes your eye away from the car pretty quickly. Ditto for the second shot, the sun is very overpowering. Oddly considering I love cars the first thing my eye was drawn to was the window.

Lovely, lovely shots though, to me the lighting of the car itself is bang on for both shots.
 
technics100 said:
great shots.. very well done.. is there much PP done to these? Whats the lighting on the 2nd shot? Is the first one a long exposure?
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There's a fair bit of PP on the second image, relatively-speaking. I wanted to create something from a concept, so I started with a backplate and then worked from there. When I shot the car in the studio, it was to match the backplate (so same focal length etc) and matched the perspectives to make it look less like a composite. The lighting on both is an 8-sec exposure in a completely dark studio, the car is then light-painted with an LED wand.

I put together a very brief clip of the process of building that image up which youtube doesn't like for some reason! You can also find it on my IG however - (https://www.instagram.com/rogue86photog/) - it's about four or five posts ago, along with this:

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It's been the most polarising set of images I've created I think. There seems to be a natural resistance from people once they realise this is a studio set. Some people (including the client fortunately!) seem to really embrace it while others dismiss it as "just photoshop" as if there's no photographic merit in what it takes to build something like this up. If anything it's made me realise why most commercial photographers don't share their process!

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Let me try....

View: https://youtu.be/UdK7S4GcMN8
 
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While some people may not appreciate it but I actually appreciate the amount of skill, time and imagination involved in creating images like this in photoshop.. use the tools available to you..

Stunning set and the video of the process is very interesting... don't stop showing, show more :)
 
Circuit Hero said:
View: https://youtu.be/UdK7S4GcMN8
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Quick question about the second last stage in the composite, is it just a case of colour matching and brushing in to remove the reflections or is that clone stamp?

Something I always try but struggle with,I'd imagine you've not a huge amount of reflection edits shooting in a studio?

Considering getting an LED light wand it's a more compact solution, worth it?
 
It's already been said your technique produces some stunning images :)
 
Thanks guys - looking forward to seeing you post some stuff up Chris!

Sko77y said:
Quick question about the second last stage in the composite, is it just a case of colour matching and brushing in to remove the reflections or is that clone stamp?

Something I always try but struggle with,I'd imagine you've not a huge amount of reflection edits shooting in a studio?

Considering getting an LED light wand it's a more compact solution, worth it?
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Are you talking about the floor extension or the reflections in the bodywork in general? If it's the latter, you can take your time and clone out the reflections if you like, but the results are usually fairly poor. It's a good technique for getting rid of smaller distractions but for full panels it's much easier and more accurate to just brush the panels in from scratch.

You'd be surprised - the studio is great but you're using a lot of gear and shooting something shiny. Plus the studio is open-ended at one-side (obviously to allow access) so the closest side to you is usually the worst!

I use an MTL-900II light wand now, which was an upgrade from using my phone-torch. The softer light definitely helps get nicer results in-camera. Hope that helps!
 
Circuit Hero said:
There's a fair bit of PP on the second image, relatively-speaking. I wanted to create something from a concept, so I started with a backplate and then worked from there. When I shot the car in the studio, it was to match the backplate (so same focal length etc) and matched the perspectives to make it look less like a composite. The lighting on both is an 8-sec exposure in a completely dark studio, the car is then light-painted with an LED wand.

I put together a very brief clip of the process of building that image up which youtube doesn't like for some reason! You can also find it on my IG however - (https://www.instagram.com/rogue86photog/) - it's about four or five posts ago, along with this:

2q3u6m8.jpg


It's been the most polarising set of images I've created I think. There seems to be a natural resistance from people once they realise this is a studio set. Some people (including the client fortunately!) seem to really embrace it while others dismiss it as "just photoshop" as if there's no photographic merit in what it takes to build something like this up. If anything it's made me realise why most commercial photographers don't share their process!

Edit

Let me try....

View: https://youtu.be/UdK7S4GcMN8
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This image is what car photography is all about, cars need exciting back drops, this looks just..well. Drool
 
Simply sublime imagengineering! :)
 
Just watched a few more of your composites on Youtube, nice work!
 
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