Quick Pic

[geralis32]

Hey all
Ben off the forum came round today and is doing his uni project on my car, he only left me with one photo, but there are more to come, they all look really cool

[Jace]

Looks awesome! Is that HDR processing?

Pity it sorta highlights the dent in the front apron.

Awesome car.

[Henri]

That's an awesome photo. Really impressive work. To the guy that took/edited it mind sharing your camera specs/settings and editing program/s used?

[Stephy]

Ohhhh..... Lovely... Just lovely...

[ben]

hey guys,

so im ben... haha

thats just a quick edit for now, so that dent will be getting the photoshop treatment

In terms of how it was shot; Yes it is an HDR. I took about 10 photos of it whilst varying the shutter speed to change the exposure (from memory the camera was on ISO100, f/9, white balance was locked off as was the focus). Once that was done I ran the photos through photoshop to create the HDR (>File>Automate>Merge to HDR)

Once I had the photoshop Radiance file (its what you save HDRs or 32-bit files as from photoshop), I took it into Photomatix Pro to begin tonemapping the image.
Once that was done I went back into photoshop to tweak the levels and colours a bit, whilst also removing the blue/purple colour cast on the car.

Hope that helps...

would love to hear feeback on how people think it could be improved too. (also stay tuned for a 3D version )

cheers

[16v_kid]

What camera did you use and lenses?

[Lorenz]

Stunning pic mate, you can get some pretty nice results with HDRs

[ben]

thanks for the kind words guys.

camera was a nikon D90, and the lens is a basic zoom (at about 50mm maybe? dont remember..)
But this can be done on any camera with basic exposure control!

[JDVW]

woah thats impressive!

[squirrel]

aha found who beat me to that licence plate...

awesome photo though. once the blue beastie is back to looking primo, we'll have to get them together for a pic.

[velly_16v_cab]

nice work, i have yet to try HDR photos.

but the mk1 looks sexy

[DubSteve]

Beautiful, just absolutely beautiful

[geralis32]

Another Pic

hope you have a set of oldskool 3d glasses hanging around (the ones with the red and blue cellophane lenses)

3D

[Jace]

I wish I did!

[Henri]

Haha yes!! I just dug up some old rice bubble glasses from when I was really young, looks awesome. Although things like the concrete in the foreground appear further away than the actual car does. How was it achieved?