Why are there so few car photographs?
Discussion
100 IAN said:
LongQ said:
And I think the most exotic I can recall, other than the huge Caddy, was a Boxster of unidentified age.
These 2 are quite famous/infamous and certainly more exotic than a Boxster!He wasn't afraid to push it on the track and spun it one or two times at Goodwood whilst I was looking the other way or reloading my 35mm camera, now if I had a DSLR in those days I would probably be changing the battery while it all kicked off in the background!
Just a few from Japfest, no hate.
Japfest 2016 by Dan J, on Flickr
Japfest 2016 by Dan J, on Flickr
JapfestStatic-46 by Dan J, on Flickr
Japfest 2016 by Dan J, on Flickr
Japfest 2016 by Dan J, on Flickr
Japfest 2016 by Dan J, on Flickr
Japfest 2016 by Dan J, on Flickr
Japfest 2016 by Dan J, on Flickr
Japfest 2016 by Dan J, on Flickr
Japfest 2016 by Dan J, on Flickr
Japfest 2016 by Dan J, on Flickr
Japfest 2016 by Dan J, on Flickr
Japfest 2016 by Dan J, on Flickr
JapfestStatic-46 by Dan J, on Flickr
Japfest 2016 by Dan J, on Flickr
Japfest 2016 by Dan J, on Flickr
Japfest 2016 by Dan J, on Flickr
Japfest 2016 by Dan J, on Flickr
Japfest 2016 by Dan J, on Flickr
Japfest 2016 by Dan J, on Flickr
Japfest 2016 by Dan J, on Flickr
Japfest 2016 by Dan J, on Flickr
Cheers guys. I can post BTS shots although they're probably not as exciting as you might think - the majority of the work done on this was in post.
Unfortunately you tend not to have much time with cars like this, in fact this was lit with a phone because I didn't have time for anything else. It was a case of grabbing five frames as quickly as possible and making sure Id got everything I needed for the edit afterwards. All-in-all its less than five minutes shooting and probably 2hrs in post. Good practice though for an upcoming shoot with another lovely orange car which will be a lot more involved.
Unfortunately you tend not to have much time with cars like this, in fact this was lit with a phone because I didn't have time for anything else. It was a case of grabbing five frames as quickly as possible and making sure Id got everything I needed for the edit afterwards. All-in-all its less than five minutes shooting and probably 2hrs in post. Good practice though for an upcoming shoot with another lovely orange car which will be a lot more involved.
Here's a little build-up of the image - before I get in to it I can almost guarantee that it will put people off the image. There's still a stigma involved with photoshop being "cheating" but the reality is that it's very rare you get the chance to do what you want in-camera with paying customers. As you'll see, this was in a workshop with a trial fit of the wheels, hence the time/location constraints. You either have the choice of giving the client essentially what they deserve, or putting in the extra effort and creating something you both want.
Two of the five base-frames:
Above frames merged, car lowered and background filled in black.
Brush-work to car body and some of floor, reflection added. This is now essentially a 'base' image to work on:
Further cleaning of car body/reflections, brush-effects/colour-grading:
Colour-change, final darkroom-editing:
It's not perfect, had time allowed I would have cleaned up more of the car (especially over the rear wheel). Of course, with a studio and a proper light-wand this edit would have been much easier!
Two of the five base-frames:
Above frames merged, car lowered and background filled in black.
Brush-work to car body and some of floor, reflection added. This is now essentially a 'base' image to work on:
Further cleaning of car body/reflections, brush-effects/colour-grading:
Colour-change, final darkroom-editing:
It's not perfect, had time allowed I would have cleaned up more of the car (especially over the rear wheel). Of course, with a studio and a proper light-wand this edit would have been much easier!
toasty said:
Beautiful car - and an atmospheric photo - like that a lotRobbieKB said:
10/10 Rogue. A beautiful car in a cluttered garage and only a phone to light it and you manage a poster quality image. Stunning.
Thanks (and also to the above posters), I guess it keeps me in paid work. Looking to knock a set of posters up for the garage or office, quite like the way these stack up next to each other:Adenauer said:
That's amazing!
I hate being thick.
What he hasn't shown you is that before they swapped the wheels for the trial fit this was actually a khaki coloured Austin Allegro.I hate being thick.
Estate.
Brown nylon interior.
(I'll apologise now to those of a sensitive disposition who may have been mentally scarred for life by the image that may have brought to mind.)
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