More black cars

[John Thawley]

Got a call asking if I could shoot these two cars "real quick." And, quiick it was. About a 1 hour session.

I thought I'd post them just to show a nimble approach to "gettin it done." Sure... there are lots of things I would have liked to have done. But, again, time was of the essence.

The location is the top of a parking deck. It allowed me to position the car up the ramp while I went below to the next ramp and basically shot with my lens on the ground.

Anyway, thought I'd share for kicks.

[Fritz Kloepfel]

Awesome, John.

I like those a lot!

Man, that sky makes the whole deal work.

[Todd Corzett]

I like how the sky reflects off the cars... the blue works nicely... and with very little blow-outs on the chrome (the star bursts add) that I'd expect from daylight shooting. Something you may want to look at is the reflection on the front of the second one (is that the photographer?).

-Todd...

[Justin Libano]

John, you went down a ramp instead of laying on the ground? Def a great idea. These are well exposed and I'll agree with Todd about the reflection on the car.

[Mike Ditz]

J
Dontcha love the quickies? The Solstice angle looks good, the Caddy IMO could use more side. They both need to have the blue sky color toned down to make the black, black, not blue.

MD

[Daniel Buck]

The front of the solstice looks a bit to dark, the caddy looks better I think, though it might be because the 'egg' shape of the solstice doesn't let any crisp angles pop the reflections as much. I think a soft mask on the front of the paint and just pull out a bit more detail would be on order :-)

Another little nit-pick, would be to bring up the passenger side headlight/foglight up in brightness a bit, to match the driver side. Might balance a bit more? :-)

[Mark Delbrueck]

Good point about the cars not reflecting the blue sky. I think it would make a heck of a difference in seperating the subject from the over-powering background. I would use "replace color" in PS to test it out.