Light Painting Part Two C&C

[DisasterDan]

Went out lastnight and tried my hand at light painting.
Shot with a 60D and my 70-200 (i know BAD lens for automobile pictures)
No matter how many times i popped the flash near the real wheel it just wouldnt come out!

30 sec exposure
ISO 100
F 20


IMG_3785 by Daniel Palmerton, on Flickr

 

[oldmacman]

This is a good start. Aside form the initial exposure, there are a couple post processing tweaks I would take care of. The edges seem a little soft and I would want nice crisp, hard edges for a machine. The second is the yellow cast that kills the shot for me. Here is a tweaked image so you can see what I am talking about. I also cloned out the city lights as I found those distracting.

 

[DisasterDan]

Dang that helped alot, can you explain in further detail what touches you made?

 

[oldmacman]

Dang that helped alot, can you explain in further detail what touches you made?

I am not sure how well you know PS, but the tweaks were:- correct for yellow cast by adjusting the saturation and lightness of yellow tones. I used "Hue and saturation" adjustment dialogue for this one.-selectively sharpened the car by duplicating the layer, sharpened the car and then masked out everything but the car- cloned out the lights in the background- deepened the blacks by multiplying in a copy of the layer and then adjusted it down to about 70%That's all I can remember doing. Glad you like the result.

 

[DisasterDan]

Dang that helped alot, can you explain in further detail what touches you made?

I am not sure how well you know PS, but the tweaks were:- correct for yellow cast by adjusting the saturation and lightness of yellow tones. I used "Hue and saturation" adjustment dialogue for this one.-selectively sharpened the car by duplicating the layer, sharpened the car and then masked out everything but the car- cloned out the lights in the background- deepened the blacks by multiplying in a copy of the layer and then adjusted it down to about 70%That's all I can remember doing. Glad you like the result.

No ive got PS pretty well. Thanks alot for that again. Ive been trying to get that look for awhile now, every time Ive tried they've all just came out soft.