How do I achieve a photo like this?

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This is my first post! Hoping to get a 500D in the sales.

How do I achieve a photo like this? What has been done in photoshop?

Thanks in advance!

Nick :)
 
Hello :)

Not a lot is the answer. The car has been lit with flash or some other light source while the background has not. You can see the reflection of the lights below the headling and half way down the side of the car.

Hope that helps.
 
The number plate has been blanked!

Seriously though, surely if this wasn't photoshopped there'd be some sort of reflection in the glass panels in the railings...?
 
If this is not your picture do you have permission from the photographer to post it here?
If you do why not ask him - if you don't - then you shouldn't be posting it!
 
GrittyShaker said:
Don't I know you from somewhere? ;)
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Hi Scott!

Your 1000D thread got me going over on S2Ki!! Going to treat myself in January!

Thanks for recommending this forum!

There is no glass in the railings in the foreground. The blue glass is only in the background.
 
I am inclined to agree with Richard. It's a composite. If you look closely the car isn't at quite the right angle to be parked on that surface so it wasn't photographed at the same elevation as the back ground - either that or the tyres on the other side are flat!
 
awp said:
no - not harsh at all - if he doesn't have permission to post the pic - then he shouldn't be posting it!! If he has - then we'll go from there.
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Hi, Being a newbie myself I wasn't 100% sure if this was allowed or not. If so then thanks for the advice, i wouldn't want to be posting other peoples pics illegally. May sound a bit daft i know.:rules:
 
You can post a hyperlink to the image if there's any question over copyright, rather than posting it directly in a thread with IMG tags. As far as I know, anyway.
 
It looks like a photochop

No reflections, car not quite sitting level
But most important, the shadow is not where it should be for the lights.

As for the the permission thing - someone show me the rule or law that says it should not be posted?
 
I've taken more than a few photos of cars at night in my time (mostly VWs - waves at Grant/bbb) ... so I was thinking that if it's a chop, someone went to a hell of a lot of trouble to overlay the flare from that light on the bridge onto the car and that if they were going down that route, they'd have made the shadows over the door disappear and wouldn't have bothered emulating the flare, etc.

A couple of minutes' googling reveals this

http://bbs.scoobynet.com/other-marques-33/741288-ford-focus-st-look-alike.html

Jamz_ said:
Took my mate a while to get that picture (a bus came through every couple of min's
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Frankly, I suspect the only Photoshop involved was the number plate and that it's all done with available light and a tripod.
 
Doesn't look particularly shopped to me, who would bother going to the trouble with an ST replica? Nice photo though.
 
looks genuine to me too, not sure any flash has been used, just a tripod. I would have gone for the star effect on the lights though if it were me...
 
Car doesn't look shopped in at all to me. The reflections on the front of the bollards look very genuine if you zoom in.

Anyway, on topic: Fairly simple shot, I would have thought camera on tripod, 2 maybe 3 flashes. Softbox mounted fairly high pointed at bonnet area, quite a few meters away. And 1 flashgun lighting the side of the car.
 
I brightened the photo enough to bring out some detail in the car window. The detail is the same as the background. It seems that the car was there when the photo was taken...
 
awp said:
If this is not your picture do you have permission from the photographer to post it here?
If you do why not ask him - if you don't - then you shouldn't be posting it!
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hot linking from another site is not any breach of copyright and perfectly legal
 
nickwrxstiv2 said:
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This is my first post! Hoping to get a 500D in the sales.

How do I achieve a photo like this? What has been done in photoshop?

Thanks in advance!

Nick :)
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the question may be why?
eventually you will have a file of cars in front of night lit bridges and city buildings...which i am sure the photo agencies have enough of...i know its the impact which captures your desire...but it can be transitory

my advice is cut your teeth on mistakes...apply and learn to use pp as needed...and rightly ask about exterior lighting and set up techniques
but dont get bound by them
be your own man
 
There's a hell of a lot to be learned frorm finding a photograph you admire and then trying to reproduce it. It expands the understanding of what is possible and how to make it so.

And remember a digital SLR never captures the image as you see it so never be afraid of using processing to bring out the elemts you want to see or to turn the photograph into what you want it to be. It's all about producing an image that says something.

Capturing a photograph e in camera is only the first step to producing a final image.
 
awp said:
If this is not your picture do you have permission from the photographer to post it here?
If you do why not ask him - if you don't - then you shouldn't be posting it!
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Very Harsh

There is no copyright on the image or in the EXIF data, so the original tog should have taken more care if he/she does not want to be copied, on the other hand there maybe a copyright clause on the website this has come from.

As stated hot linking is fine, that's a good reason to put your copyright in the image in the first place.
 
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