Nighthawk Black TSX - a nice photo I took yesterday
09-28-2007, 06:01 PM
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Originally Posted by Fox137
nice shot + car!
what kind of camera do you have?
09-28-2007, 06:07 PM
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Originally Posted by acn684
lens blur or photoshop blur?
To be more specific, I copied the main image, pasted in a new layer, gauisian blur that new layer like 20%, then used the history tool to take the blur out of the focal point (the car)
I did a 20% transparent gradiant layer over the top (blue to clear to black) again to justify the focal point and build the illusion that I used a lens hood.
I also made another copy of the background layer and played with the curves and made it very transparent, and again used the history brush to take out the "sharp" colors that were too contrasting and fake looking but still left the cool accents in the black and the chrome areas. This was just an experiment that ended up looking decent so I saved it and decided to post it, so please don't take it for an attempt at a professional shot.
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Originally Posted by HONgDA
The way it was taken makes it look like a monster truck 4X4.
nice shot tho
But what we really mean to say is...."You need to drop it"
09-30-2007, 09:19 PM
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Fake blur 
Probably would have looked better just leaving it as it was originally.
Probably would have looked better just leaving it as it was originally.
Originally Posted by honduh chicken
Everything was done in PS, I did it real quick too. If this were for an ad layout I prob would have spent 8 hours on the editing, but this was a "I'm bored at work" quick PS of a decent photo I noticed when I DL'd my memory card from my camera.
To be more specific, I copied the main image, pasted in a new layer, gauisian blur that new layer like 20%, then used the history tool to take the blur out of the focal point (the car)
I did a 20% transparent gradiant layer over the top (blue to clear to black) again to justify the focal point and build the illusion that I used a lens hood.
I also made another copy of the background layer and played with the curves and made it very transparent, and again used the history brush to take out the "sharp" colors that were too contrasting and fake looking but still left the cool accents in the black and the chrome areas. This was just an experiment that ended up looking decent so I saved it and decided to post it, so please don't take it for an attempt at a professional shot.
To be more specific, I copied the main image, pasted in a new layer, gauisian blur that new layer like 20%, then used the history tool to take the blur out of the focal point (the car)
I did a 20% transparent gradiant layer over the top (blue to clear to black) again to justify the focal point and build the illusion that I used a lens hood.
I also made another copy of the background layer and played with the curves and made it very transparent, and again used the history brush to take out the "sharp" colors that were too contrasting and fake looking but still left the cool accents in the black and the chrome areas. This was just an experiment that ended up looking decent so I saved it and decided to post it, so please don't take it for an attempt at a professional shot.
10-01-2007, 04:54 PM
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Originally Posted by davidspalding
i LIKE your wheels, man.
10-01-2007, 08:08 PM
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Originally Posted by honduh chicken
Here's the original, unedited save for size and resolution.
10-02-2007, 09:56 AM
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Yeah, I washed my car at lunch, went to leave work and walked up to my car and thought, DAMN, this would make a good photo! The only thing that would have made it better if I had happened to be down by lake Michigan at dawn parked on the cliffs. Maybe that shot will have to be "set-up" some day.
RE: not looking very realistic.. I did it in 5 min. I wasn't going for a Product Brochure cover-shot here. ;-)
RE: not looking very realistic.. I did it in 5 min. I wasn't going for a Product Brochure cover-shot here. ;-)
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