Recent Automotive Work

hahaOHmichael · Aug 26, 2013

Sharing some recent shots from various shoots I've had over the past week.

s2k 1 by Michael Fornataro Photography, on Flickr

Brandon by Michael Fornataro Photography, on Flickr

sav by Michael Fornataro Photography, on Flickr

Brandon by Michael Fornataro Photography, on Flickr

sav by Michael Fornataro Photography, on Flickr

imagemaker46 · Aug 26, 2013

Some nice work.

TheoGraphics · Aug 26, 2013

these are nice! i would like to see less saturation and blown highlights, personally.

hahaOHmichael · Aug 27, 2013

TheoGraphics said:
these are nice! i would like to see less saturation and blown highlights, personally.

Thanks man! Just finished this edit today, pretty pleased with it overall.

sav by Michael Fornataro Photography, on Flickr

Braineack · Aug 27, 2013

I like the S2K shot, the rest I think you're taking too far and are generally the boring/typical type of shots you'd see from teh slammed/stretched/drift scene.

I would have loved to see the s2k with combined exposures using creating lighting. something like this:

All sizes | Marcos LM500 | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

or this is a great example to show how he does it:

All sizes | Roddisons Motorsport | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

you can see how he fired his 430ex around the car in 360 and combined the shots to come up with a perfectly lit car, and then left the ones the background in the shot for some creative effect.

Be careful, his photostream will make you hate life.

hahaOHmichael · Aug 27, 2013

Braineack said:
I like the S2K shot, the rest I think you're taking too far and are generally the boring/typical type of shots you'd see from teh slammed/stretched/drift scene.

I would have loved to see the s2k with combined exposures using creating lighting. something like this:

All sizes | Marcos LM500 | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

or this is a great example to show how he does it:

All sizes | Roddisons Motorsport | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

you can see how he fired his 430ex around the car in 360 and combined the shots to come up with a perfectly lit car, and then left the ones the background in the shot for some creative effect.

Be careful, his photostream will make you hate life.

All of my photos are lit with the same technique, of course they're not as good, but I used the same idea for all of them. The s2k was lit about 5 times then brought onto a background plate.

KmH · Aug 27, 2013

Automotive Work?

Only 1/20th or so of the image frames is a car and the rest is architecture, foreground, or sky?

Based on color contrast some of the cars have some visual weight in the image, but I would recommend getting quite a bit closer to the cars.

runnah · Aug 27, 2013

I like the s2000 shot and the second golf photo has a really nice color combo going on.

I dislike the srt4 shots on principal.

hahaOHmichael · Aug 27, 2013

KmH said:
Automotive Work?

Only 1/20th or so of the image frames is a car and the rest is architecture, foreground, or sky?

Based on color contrast some of the cars have some visual weight in the image, but I would recommend getting quite a bit closer to the cars.

To each his own I guess. I like seeing the car within an interesting architectural environment. I agree I should bring the car a little more into the frame though.