Next, you bring the photos into Photoshop or your photo editing software and stack and align your images. But it's important to take note of the focal length, and in some cases the aperture, of each shot (which if you're shooting on just about any modern camera, is readily available in your editing software). Naturally, sorting and organizing your photos is where it starts but this obviously is only a fraction of the work to come. I made the switch to Capture One last year after fellow Fstoppers Writer Nino Batista enlightened me to its many benefits. I pack up my gear and head to Arrecis' shop, do my usual multiple exposure work, and pack up and get ready for all the post work that's about to happen.įirst step is sorting the different exposures and refining the selections down to keep the file size usable while still getting the images I need.
A few months pass and I've been prepping some assets and ideas for the car and the day arrives. I could guess what the idea was, and I was right.
It wasn't just any car, it was a white McLaren 650s with every bit of carbon trim you could select to get on the car, with a very specific license plate: "STRMTRP." So a white and black super car, with a Star Wars themed plate. What is this all leading up to? Well, Arrecis called me a few months back and told me about a car he was going to detail that the owner absolutely wanted to get some photos of, but with a catch.
It was a simple merging of several different exposures and hits with a flash, and then adding in the new background and skewing and resizing it till the horizon looked about right for the photo. Now this project was not exceedingly difficult it was time-consuming - but not difficult. The challenge though was a perfect example of not being able to bring the cars to an ideal location, and instead, having to improvise in a dingy parking lot in front of a badly landscaped commercial center. The image above is a great example of the kinds of projects that I am fortunate enough to be able to work on for my client. Both Jonathan and the owner wanted photos done, but I was only able to take the car down the road a block or two to an empty parking lot to shoot the photos. A beautiful vintage Corvette in amazing condition. This being one of the previously mentioned rare cars. Whether it's a simple merging of a few different exposures blended together to make a single final photograph or a complete reconstruction of the environment, composites are in many situations the best way that you can create a final image. Composites are a fact of life in this day and age in the photography world.
I'm sure everyone has seen them or at least heard about them. However, if they've got high hopes and want the car to be pictured anywhere except where it actually is you have to be a bit creative. If they want only detail shots then you're good as you won't need to show much of the background to accomplish their goals. This can definitely cause some problems when it comes to producing high-end images of the cars for a client.
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