Why are there so few car photographs?

Why are there so few car photographs?

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rich888

2,610 posts

198 months

Monday 25th April 2016
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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!




Hey I took that particular photo of the pink Countach, apparently it was owned by a dentist living in/near Halifax, the colour of the car was matched to the dress/belt/*other* being worn by his girlfriend smile

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!

danllama

5,728 posts

141 months

Monday 25th April 2016
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Just a few from Japfest, no hate. smile

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

Dave46

454 posts

138 months

Tuesday 26th April 2016
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V8A*ndy

3,695 posts

190 months

Tuesday 26th April 2016
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Some of the N.I crew.









Edited by V8A*ndy on Tuesday 26th April 13:33


Edited by V8A*ndy on Tuesday 26th April 13:34

Rogue86

2,008 posts

144 months

Tuesday 26th April 2016
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McAndy

12,336 posts

176 months

Tuesday 26th April 2016
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Lovely.

4Lmike

1,910 posts

169 months

Wednesday 27th April 2016
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Nice one Rogue!

RobbieKB

7,715 posts

182 months

Wednesday 27th April 2016
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Awesome work mate. You got any BTS images? I'd love to see how this sort of image comes together.

Rogue86

2,008 posts

144 months

Wednesday 27th April 2016
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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.

LongQ

13,864 posts

232 months

Wednesday 27th April 2016
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Rogue86 said:
"this was lit with a phone"
Absurd.

Rogue86 said:
Good practice though for an upcoming shoot with another lovely orange car which will be a lot more involved.
You have found one of the old Tango promo Oranges? (Or are you doing a portrait gig with Christine Lagarde?)


Dave46

454 posts

138 months

Wednesday 27th April 2016
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Rogue86 that looks awesome

Rogue86

2,008 posts

144 months

Thursday 28th April 2016
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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!






rich888

2,610 posts

198 months

Thursday 28th April 2016
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Rogue86 that is absolutely fantastic, thank you for showing the 'build' process smile

Adenauer

18,564 posts

235 months

Thursday 28th April 2016
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That's amazing!

I hate being thick.

toasty

7,441 posts

219 months

Thursday 28th April 2016
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RobbieKB

7,715 posts

182 months

Thursday 28th April 2016
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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.

Vocal Minority

8,582 posts

151 months

Thursday 28th April 2016
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toasty said:
Beautiful car - and an atmospheric photo - like that a lot

JohnS

935 posts

283 months

Thursday 28th April 2016
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Nissan GTR at Cadwell park on Sunday. This one was shot through the safety fence!


Rogue86

2,008 posts

144 months

Thursday 28th April 2016
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RobbieKB 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:



LongQ

13,864 posts

232 months

Thursday 28th April 2016
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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.



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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