LogicWavelength, drew22mader and dirtySAMURAIs Guide Automotive Photography *NEW PIX*
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well i suck i went out took tons of pics and barely got two that turned out "okay" the problem is either the car washes out overexposed or color isnt right, or something weird with the headlights looking like theyre not real. comments of these? idk how to improve, and its hard getting some of these cause its either areas where no cars are allowed or stupid people drive by and watch you. well actually this is the ONE pic i think came out good..
well i suck i went out took tons of pics and barely got two that turned out "okay" the problem is either the car washes out overexposed or color isnt right, or something weird with the headlights looking like theyre not real. comments of these? idk how to improve, and its hard getting some of these cause its either areas where no cars are allowed or stupid people drive by and watch you. well actually this is the ONE pic i think came out good..
OK... it is exposed well, albeit slightly under-done... good angle... but I would have moved the car closer to either the top or bottom. I am leaning towards top to minimize those powerlines. Anyway... try cropping the top off in PhotoShop and experiment with some of dirtySAMURAI's part of the guide... It has potential.
okay lemme know if this is good i spent hours on it!!! lol
AFTER -Tons of color adjustments, lots of buildings and telephone poles and trash cleanup, fixed the front wheel shine and exhaust, glow around car, etc-
Only thing that doesn't look right is the halo around the whole car. Try not so much on the rear and more from the side of the car. The car and the ground should resemble the fake lighting, so if there is light on the ground from the back of the car, make sure you lightin up the rear of the car as well, or the side. If not it will just appear as a halo around it. Stamping the wires and poles turned out great though.
NEW SECTION - "Depth of Field" added under advanced controls! In the future, I will add the tag "UPDATED - (date)" for future add-ons, but considering this is the same day, it remains the same.
gearbox... getting better man! Study some photos on JTuned.com - see what makes them good angles... like how is the car placed within the bounds of the photo? Look at the lighting and see why it hits the car as it does, where is the sun, etc.
Then once ALL THAT is accomplished... go out and take 100,000 pictures of your car in 20 different locations and lighting situations. In other words: practice more! And for God's sake - keep me updated!
Awsome info! Big thanks goes to LogicWavelength, Drew22mader, and dirtySAMURAI. So after reading this, i tried to apply what I learned onto one of my older photos. I'll take some more in the next week and hopefully the photos turn out awsome with this guide!
Anyways, heres a pic of the original and the edit I did with photoshop. All i did was use the adjustments to change the curves, exposer, shadow/highlight, and the dodge tool.(Which I never knew what hell that even was before!) I went a little crazy because i wanted to see what everything did.
Sujak, sometimes i twick it a bit, some things just need that extra sharpness.
Jhonsok, i think the edited pic really looks alot better, and not so washed out from the harsh fluorescent lighting. Although, one thing, like Logic had stated, you wanna see the details of the car and not just an outlight, upon darkening it up you also lost alot of detail. Next time try shooting a couple different exposures, try getting one over exposed, middle, and overexposed, kinda like an HDR image would do. But then work with all 3 of them and getting correct exposure over the 3 and combine them. If you are going to use the halo effect, make sure you don't wrap the lighting around because lighting not only hits the ground, but also the car, the car is dark and the ground is light. Try using the dodge tool a little less on the ground. Adjust the highlights and shadows too when doin it. Best thing to do is this, take tons of pictures, just sit and look at how light bends on the car, what light his where, you ever see people make a square with their hands? do that, you will see what your gonna see through the lens. Hope this helped you and others.
Last edited by drew22mader : 09-24-2006 at 11:29 PM.
the other pic didnt look right so i found an old one i like. adjusted left turn signal to match, darkened headlights, tinted moonroof and windshield, cropped, removed front plate, lightened fogs, removed washer nozzles. i like it!
There is gl@ss in my @SS...
