Silver cars and black wheels?

[LRdriver II]

Aarrghh.. how do get nice shots of silver metallic cars with black rims?? It seems to underexpose the rims due to the very bright silver colour. Is this purely thru photoshop or is there some easy way whilst on-site?

[srider]

LRdriver II said:

Aarrghh.. how do get nice shots of silver metallic cars with black rims?? It seems to underexpose the rims due to the very bright silver colour. Is this purely thru photoshop or is there some easy way whilst on-site?

What camera are you using?

[LRdriver II]

Fuji s7000 digital.. I have played around with photoshop but seem to lose colour saturation if I turn up the exposure.. Mind you, I am just a beginner so am slowly getting into this..

[murph7355]

Can you post a picture as it comes out of the camera?

It's usually better to make sure light colours aren't overexposed, as it's easier to bring out shadow details than do anything with overexposed areas.

An example of what you're getting might help. If you can, include how you took the photo (full auto, manual control, what you focussed on etc).

[V6GTO]

Try taking your exposure reading from something that is as near to 18% grey as possible, like grass or leaves. This should help with the origonal image. M.

[simpo two]

I doubt you'll get both exposed properly - this is where the eyeball exceeds even a digital camera. I'd expose for the silver (which it's probably doing anyway), then select the (too-dark) wheels in PS and increase the brightness - but if you do it too much it will look artificial.

[LRdriver II]

Yep..looking at the piccys now, in a dark room, they look ok. I also learnt that, even though the light was very diffuse/hazy with no sunlight, it still made a huge differnce positioning the car with the sun behind me.

Fun stuff this piccy taking. Now I need to wash and wax the car and take it out on a sunny/blue sky day..

[gravymaster]

take one photo that is exposed for the wheels, and one for the car, then use photoshop to splice them together, a la fred miranda:

www.fredmiranda.com/article_2/

hope this helps!