Never say never
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I know, I said that I would never do this again but… 😀 I was asked to shoot this for one of the automobile magazines, here in the states, and decided what the heck. What was I thinking? 😕 Anyway, my self confidence level, with in this type of shooting, is still low so, I thought that I would ask for some other eyes, here again. I still have a lot of clean up to do on it but I am not all that sure of it. I have another angle from above but I wanted to finish this one first and see if you think that it is ok or not. I had to convert from CMYK to SRGB so that colour degraded a good bit but I am curious about everything else.. Thanks again 😉
Thanks Aaron, I was surprised at how much color was actually lost in both downsizing and converting. The actual color of the car, at full resolution is far richer and all though it is not my favorite color, it looks great on this car. My eyes were so exhausted that I just wasn’t sure about what I was looking at or seeing, which is why I thought that I would ask for some thoughts here. Something keeps bugging me about the image and before I turn them in, I want to get everything to the best of my abilities. When I was asked to do this, I made the deal with them that I would do my own post edit and then submit a Tiff file. As I said before, my self confidence is low in automobile assignments and I don’t want to cut my throat with low quality work.
I looked at the section that you pointed out and agree. I have to keep that a bit darker, light blending thing but I think that I will add a bit of fog, or mist, behind the car and that should help bring the detail back in. The flattened file is 27MB in size, with plenty of data in it but I agree that it does not stand out enough.
After a full night of rest, I think that my problem is located in the front fender, along the seam, as the reflective light light seems to take away from the rest of the seam and makes the front quarter panel appear flat and unaligned. i have a lot of clean up left to do on it but I wanted other eyes to evaluate and express honest opinions as well… No, I don’t drive these cars as they are far to expensive and I want nothing to do with the liabilities of them.
Thanks again 🙂
Thanks Zach. I made a few changes and cleaned it up a lot, there is still a lot of mess inside of it but I will clean that up as well. I have a few hundred shots of the car and will go back to check and see what I have of the wells and how well they look in the final. Something has just been bugging me about the image and I can’t seem to put my finger on it, seems that I am my own worst enemy on these sort of things :).
This is an updated version with some changes to help bring out the detail of the front and rear sections of the car. I am getting closer but just not happy with it yet, I no longer have access to the car so …
Oh yes, what about the front fender, any thoughts on that or is it just me and sore eyes?
I think that this is going to be the final, on this angel. Going to start that next composition and thanks for the suggestions guys ;). I added a brighter wheel well but felt that it wold be best to tone it down a bit, so that it makes sense with the amount of light around it. Thoughts and ideas are still very much appreciated.
My only thought is; Can you put me in the drivers seat? Sure as heck would beat my old pickup, ‘Hank’. Nice work man – I can see a 17 year old kid starting at your picture as a poster hanging over his bed. Not to say, us old guys wouldn’t stare at that photo or hang it on our rooms. More that, our wive’s just wouldn’t let us. Nice work man.
Thanks for letting us be a part of it.
Aaron
Thanks guy’s 🙂 I added a close up of the engine compartment, if you are interested. These people really do excellent work on rebuilding these classics. Got to finish the profile shot and I am back to saying that I will never do this again :-/ I think lol
Zach
It is a large open space, about 3,500 sq ft., but due to the fact that it is no where near a high budget sort of assignment, I created most of the backgorud and fog/misty feel in Photoshop. I prefer to shoot against lighter backgrounds so that it makes it easier to work on the overall composition.
This is the last of the 3, thank God 😉
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