Just spent all evening working on this. Going to late getting out of bed in the morning, I think...

Anyway...

Absolutely mint mate.

Is there an additional Photoshop filter for doing this sort of shot, or do you just use the built-in filters?

Wow...

I've just been on your website... "You Got Skilz Bohy"!!!

Cheers dude :rolsmile: There's no filters on this shot, but it has had lots of contrast and colour adjustments through and a lot of retouching to remove the camera rig, which extends to about eight feet off the front of the car. The exposure is four seconds and I'm around the back pushing the car along.

AHHHH!

(The penny drops!)

I always thought these were photoshopped...

Really, really nice.

Fantastic pic, Easily up to cover shot standards, and significantly better than some mags manage.

Is this a proffesion or hobby? if the latter then you could be in line for the former if shown to the right people.

Excellent picture - From a critical un profesional point of view the shadow under the front right hand wheel catches the eye - most of the picture is soft but this shadow is sharp. Only me looking for something to comment on whats a great photo and a lot of hard work I am sure.

John

Rubbish... You have no talent at all and wasted a night working on this!

Na, only joking. Great image m8 as far as i'm concerned. I'll try to get the better half's verdict on it. She's a big Photoshop user. Into her macs and all. I agree with stopan1j if he's talking about the passenger side wheel but I probably wouldn't have noticed it otherwise. If you aren't making money out of this stuff you are crazy.

If you aren't making money out of this stuff you are crazy.

It is my profession, but whether I make any money out of it is open to interpretation! I actually do most of my work for a well-known paper in London, but I want to stop all that and shoot cars full time cos I love it.

John - I see what you mean with the shadow. I'm pretty certain its sharp because it was moving with the car (notice how there are no shadows from the spokes of the wheel, which would have been rotating). It is a touch distracting, though - should have cloned it out.

JohnnyC - I'd be very interested to what your other half makes of it. Thanks!

Jamlip,

Studying your brilliant photo a bit more is that a reflection of you in the front wing? thats some shiney car!!! just remembered you were pushing so is it someone else

John

Studying your brilliant photo a bit more is that a reflection of you in the front wing? thats some shiney car!!!

I was around the back and was the only one in the whole car park, so I hope not!

It is my profession' date=' but whether I make any money out of it is open to interpretation! I actually do most of my work for a well-known paper in London, but I want to stop all that and shoot cars full time cos I love it.

John - I see what you mean with the shadow. I'm pretty certain its sharp because it was moving with the car (notice how there are no shadows from the spokes of the wheel, which would have been rotating). It is a touch distracting, though - should have cloned it out.

JohnnyC - I'd be very interested to what your other half makes of it. Thanks![/quote']

The better half took a look and is very impressed. She isn't that convinced about the driver's side front wheel though. The impression of speed given by the effect on the wheel doesn't seem to correlate with the acute angle of the wheel to the car and the car's stance. A slower motion effect or a less acute wheel angle might improve this. That's my translation of what she said anyway.

Yeah! That's a good observation and I agree. Maybe next attempt will be a little more refined. I should point out that there's no Photoshop blur filters on anything, so the effect is straight from the camera.

It's very easy to go mad with how much you move the car. I'd like to try some shots in cool locations using a small amount of blur so the backgrounds are more recognisable.

I think the Furby is great looking little motor although i'm more of an Octy fan. I think the view along the side of thiss car is a bit dissapointing. The front looks the part but the side of these cars looks a bit 'run of the mill'. I think the tyre sitting in from the wheel arch is responsible for this. This isn't a vrs though is it. Excuse the ignorance.

Nope - it's a PD100. I really don't like the way the wheel sits in from the arch either. A few people on here have fitted spacers to stop this.

I also don't like how thin the back wheel looks. The wheels are from an Audi A2 and look great except that they are only 5J. What the car really needs is decking a set of 8J 16" flat-face Merc AMG rims. That's a plan, although not and urgent one.

The exposure is four seconds and I'm around the back pushing the car along.

Excellent pic. Now when I see an ad in a magazine, I'll always picture a guy pushing the car "Take the freakin picture, will ya"

Ha. Their methods are a bit more complicated than that...

A lot of what you see doesn't actually exist - the cars are 3D CAD renders which are placed into spherical panoramas shot with special cameras. The car is placed into the 'environment' and the body panels of the car are configured to reflect the opposing edge of the spherical image like body panels in a real car would. Various other effects (speed, splashes, flying gravel) are added with computer. Then a massive computer draws the whole thing together to such a realistic final image that it takes a very trained eye to tell what's real and what's not.

It's all fantastic trickery and photo magick!

Hey Jamlip,

nice stuff its very inspiring as ive started to try and experiment more with original photos rather than taking a normal photo and photochoping it up like mad.

what course did you do at university? or are these skills just purely learnt by trial/error?

also, what camera do you own?

rich

Hi Rich,

Cheers. I didn't go to university. I got a place to do Geography at King's but I wanted to be a press photographer so never started and instead went to Sheffield to do a press photography course for a year. It didn't take me long to realise I didn't want to be a press photographer. So now I shoot cars, and other stuff, but I really like shooting cars.

I use a Nikon D2H and some other bits and pieces, but that doesn't matter. It sucks!

And today my new website got finished off!

Yeah, I saw you site in your profile. Looks proper swish in flash.. Ive been playing around with flash and all those media packages incl photoshop.. and i've learnt quite alot mainly with tutorials.

Im going to do a Digital Media Arts course, so that should be fun and interesting.

I need to invest in one of those cameras, but at

Hi Rich' date='

Cheers. I didn't go to university. I got a place to do Geography at King's but I wanted to be a press photographer so never started and instead went to Sheffield to do a press photography course for a year. It didn't take me long to realise I didn't want to be a press photographer. So now I shoot cars, and other stuff, but I really like shooting cars.

I use a Nikon D2H and some other bits and pieces, but that doesn't matter. It sucks!

And today my new website got finished off!

Like the site, very nice. Noticed one small thing while I was browsing round - the spelling of Discovery underneath the picture

Steve