Automobile post processing

[dmarty78]

Posted these over on the transportation forums. Thaought I'd share them with those interested in Post work. If the double post is no no, I'll delete the thread.

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A little composite I threw together.

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[Everett Quintana]

Awesome job!

Mind sharing the process...

[LWimages]

One of the best PP work I've seen. Would you mind sharing?

[crazyfoo]

3rd that....

[hue-e]

Yeah, i have a pretty good idea how you did those, but would like confirmation... or at least know that i was off :P

[hue-e]

it looks like you did quite a bit of dodge/burn... if that's the case, on the second one... I'd be carefull about going one or two clicks to far. on the red intake, it looks like it's dirty/oily. A click or two, to far, will do that.

I run into that when dodge/burn on portraits. as soon as the face starts to look dirty, I know I went to far. what I do is stop burning, then just dodge the mids/highlights for more contrast.

[mercphoto]

Inspiring work! Have you ever done this type of PP with rolling/action shots, rather than statics? I almost always do track work, and I struggle to think of any type of strong PP like that that might enhance those types of shots.

[dmarty78]

Originally Posted by Everett Quintana

Awesome job!

Mind sharing the process...

Thanks. I'm gonna write a tutorial someday.

Originally Posted by louis24x7

One of the best PP work I've seen. Would you mind sharing?

Thanks! Tutorial sometime in the future.

Originally Posted by crazyfoo

3rd that....

Originally Posted by hue-e

Yeah, i have a pretty good idea how you did those, but would like confirmation... or at least know that i was off :P

Keep guessing...

Originally Posted by hue-e

it looks like you did quite a bit of dodge/burn... if that's the case, on the second one... I'd be carefull about going one or two clicks to far. on the red intake, it looks like it's dirty/oily. A click or two, to far, will do that.

I run into that when dodge/burn on portraits. as soon as the face starts to look dirty, I know I went to far. what I do is stop burning, then just dodge the mids/highlights for more contrast.

No burning on the intake. I ran a NIC filter on it and did a poor job cleaning it up. I think I'm going to put the original back in there. It's too shiney.

Originally Posted by mercphoto

Inspiring work! Have you ever done this type of PP with rolling/action shots, rather than statics? I almost always do track work, and I struggle to think of any type of strong PP like that that might enhance those types of shots.

I did some for another photographer. All my stuff is static. Never had a chance to do rig shots and panning work. I have a race car to photograph at motorsport ranch next weekend, so, I'll try it out then. Thanks for looking.

[49884]

Very nice work! Inspiring for sure. No.5 really rocks!

[dmarty78]

Originally Posted by 49884

Very nice work! Inspiring for sure. No.5 really rocks!

Thanks Mario!!

[Sherman79]

very nice work!

[dmarty78]

Originally Posted by Sherman79

very nice work!

Thanks Sherman!!

[lsosa]

let me ask a question? what happen if some magazine wants to publish this pictures would you have to have permission of the owner even if they were taken at public car show or park

[groovyone]

Very cool! Love the effect the editing has. Impressive. Now I know who to ask when I need cool shots of my black cars!

[groovyone]

I had to subscribe to this thread. I keep coming back to it. Really love the editing! The interior shots are especially cool.