A little shoot of my TT and an S4

Brentmeister7592 · Nov 28, 2010

Well me and a buddy of mine went out to take a few pictures of our cars. I have never really went out shooting of my car (not sure why), and he just picked up the S4 so we wanted to get a few shot of it in stock mode for progress. Well heres a few of what I came up with... [cool]

C&C is appreciated. I'm all ears :thumbup:

The TT:

Why not get creative?....

The S4:

Audi on Audi Action :

A few for fun :

photocist · Nov 29, 2010

They all look hdr, and unfortunately that gives you a lot of really distracting reflections.

The last s4 shot is probably my favorite, though cropping out that window on the top left would make the shot much better.

Its an awesome location you got there, keep on shooting!

Brentmeister7592 · Nov 29, 2010

photocist said:
They all look hdr, and unfortunately that gives you a lot of really distracting reflections.

The last s4 shot is probably my favorite, though cropping out that window on the top left would make the shot much better.

Its an awesome location you got there, keep on shooting!

I'm not sure why they all appear HDR, because all of them except the last 3 have very basic post processing. Basically just played with the levels to set the white/black point of each photo.

As far as the reflections, that may be due to the fact that I lacked a polarizer. That is definitely going to be my next investment!

Brentmeister7592 · Nov 29, 2010

photocist said:
They all look hdr, and unfortunately that gives you a lot of really distracting reflections.

The last s4 shot is probably my favorite, though cropping out that window on the top left would make the shot much better.

Its an awesome location you got there, keep on shooting!

Edited the window :thumbup:

DSLR noob · Nov 29, 2010

I really like this one:

http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w153/Brentmeister7592/edited-11.jpg

although most of the images seem washed out in a way, I'm thinking overexposed slightly. Perhaps use of a lens hood, or a slightly darker exposure would help bring out more of the color and depth in the paint.

For example, this shot:
http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w153/Brentmeister7592/edited-19.jpg

it seems the blue in the S4's paint is really dull. This could be altered a bit with curves/levels in photoshop. I went through my usual workflow with this image to aid in the presence of the cars.

I opened levels, and since you picked th eblack and white points, I slid the middle arrow over just a tad to darken up the bright background. I then went into curves and did a slight color/contras boost by doing a gentle "S" curve (not unlike this one http://voorste.net/tutorials/Newspaper_to_print/photoshop_curves_s_curve.png ). After that, I did a touch of sharpening with a mild unsharp mask, and then dodged the wheels a bit on highlight mode and burned the two lower grills to make the bodywork more agressive and hide the factory plastic mesh. Let me know if it works for you. It's by no means a perfect workflow but I usually start with all of these things more or less with all of my automotive photography.