mostly automotive - my photos

TamiyaGuy · Feb 17, 2009

That Lambo is GOBSMACKING. Incredible colours, awesome contrast, and to top it all, a very, very nice sky (on both photos). The front-on M3 is fantastic as well, but I would personally have used a wider aperture to blur the house some more. The M3 in the car park (?) is pretty much perfect.

That's one helluva portfolio you've got there, man. I hope you continue!!!

Atreus · Feb 17, 2009

moar e30's plz. and some e34's if you have them.....

Chad Truss · Feb 19, 2009

You do excellent work.

I would love to see what a few of these shots looked like before you processed them. I struggle with lighting myself having to do most of it in PS as well.

abdulkhlig · Feb 19, 2009

I wanted very much the first

mar1u5 · Feb 21, 2009

Atreus said:
moar e30's plz. and some e34's if you have them.....

I've only shot this one bmw. A guy with a e34 coupe never showed up, so that didn't pan out. I've got a e30 m-tech II lined up that I'm going to shoot when summer comes, along with a black 7-series that's getting lowered on some nice 20" wheels. Hopefully they show up!

Because my canon 400d/xti had a snafu of some sort, this picture is actually shot as ISO 1600 (!)

mar1u5 · Feb 21, 2009

TamiyaGuy said:
That Lambo is GOBSMACKING. Incredible colours, awesome contrast, and to top it all, a very, very nice sky (on both photos). The front-on M3 is fantastic as well, but I would personally have used a wider aperture to blur the house some more. The M3 in the car park (?) is pretty much perfect.

That's one helluva portfolio you've got there, man. I hope you continue!!!

Thanks. I havn't been able to shoot that many cars, mostly because it's actually hard to get people to show up/agree to have their car photographed. And all of last summer got ruined for me, so that was a whole season wasted. Hopefully this summer will be better, with a new camera and more free time from work than last year.

Miss Sony · Feb 21, 2009

Amazing shots!!!!

If you lived closer, I could bring you many exotic cars to shoot (my brother works for Aston Martin/Bently/Jaguar/Land Rover), I love automotive photography

mar1u5 · Feb 22, 2009

Wish you lived closer

Boored out of my mind today, so sat down with some old material and killed a few hours in photoshop.

Canon 400d with the ef-s 17-55 f2.8 again:

mar1u5 · May 3, 2009

Went out yesturday with the nikon D300 and my new car and took some pictures.

mar1u5 · May 3, 2009

And another one...

beni_hung · May 3, 2009

You've got some amazing talent!

thirdkid · May 3, 2009

you got one of the best photoshop and photography skills ive seen..keep up the automotive shots..subscribed

Nix725 · May 4, 2009

Wow...They almost look like HDR photos. I would really love to learn what you do in photoshop to make these shots look so amazing.

mar1u5 · May 4, 2009

Thanks for the positive feedback!

Both of the audi pictures contains elements of HDR. I ran all the exposures I took through photomatix (7 exposures) and then I created 3 different HDR-versions of each picture. I then loaded those 3 hdr pictures, along with the 7 exposures the camera took, into photoshop and combined elements from almost all of them to create the final image. I used a few different filters, dodge/burn and various adjustment layers in photoshop aswell. The first picture was around 11 layers when I worked on it.

As for a "how to" guide, that's out of the question I'm afraid. I've spent years teaching myself photoshop, so I hope you understand that I'm not willing to share my methods.