It Was A Dark And Stormy Night....

geektoad · April 20, 2009

tobias · April 20, 2009

Cool shot! It really brings out the purple nicely.

Remind me again your plan for the front end. Are you color-matching the grill surround or the bow tie?

geektoad · April 20, 2009

color match surround, billet bowtie.

If the color matched surround and black inserts is too dark, then I'll get CW billet inserts to give it a some contrast.

tobias · April 20, 2009

color match surround, billet bowtie.

If the color matched surround and black inserts is too dark, then I'll get CW billet inserts to give it a some contrast.

2000DV4.8 · April 20, 2009

color match surround, billet bowtie.

If the color matched surround and black inserts is too dark, then I'll get CW billet inserts to give it a some contrast.

^This.

I like how the HDR doesn't look too "cartooney", but the halo bothers me a bit...

geektoad · April 20, 2009

color match surround, billet bowtie.

If the color matched surround and black inserts is too dark, then I'll get CW billet inserts to give it a some contrast.

^This.

I like how the HDR doesn't look too "cartooney", but the halo bothers me a bit...

yeah...i'm going to do a layer mask and try to subdue that. Forgot that some of the photonerds are here too. Though i could get away with posting it as is ;) ;)

and yeah, I don't really dig "cartooney" HDRs. To my it's about getting as much detail as possible, and adding some mood. Not about being over the top.

2000DV4.8 · April 20, 2009

color match surround, billet bowtie.

If the color matched surround and black inserts is too dark, then I'll get CW billet inserts to give it a some contrast.

^This.

I like how the HDR doesn't look too "cartooney", but the halo bothers me a bit...

yeah...i'm going to do a layer mask and try to subdue that. Forgot that some of the photonerds are here too. Though i could get away with posting it as is ;) ;)

and yeah, I don't really dig "cartooney" HDRs. To my it's about getting as much detail as possible, and adding some mood. Not about being over the top.

Which I think you did pretty much perfectly, minus the halo.

I still haven't had a chance to try any HDR shots. Or shoot in RAW, since I don't have anything that I can edit RAW files in.

Darkanion · April 20, 2009

Forgot that some of the photonerds are here too.

and yeah, I don't really dig "cartooney" HDRs. To my it's about getting as much detail as possible, and adding some mood. Not about being over the top.

Personally, the halo doesn't bother me that much... I was paying more attention to the clouds and wondering what you did to do that...

geektoad · April 20, 2009

Forgot that some of the photonerds are here too.

and yeah, I don't really dig "cartooney" HDRs. To my it's about getting as much detail as possible, and adding some mood. Not about being over the top.

Personally, the halo doesn't bother me that much... I was paying more attention to the clouds and wondering what you did to do that...

I took 5 shots for a total spread of about 4 stops. For my HDRs I use Photomatix Pro, though I need to look into other stuff, as I do get tired of fighting the halos Photomatix creates at times. As far as settings in Photomatix itself, I generally use HDR tone map using the 'enhance details' process, and within that, I just tweak until I like it.

After that, I'll dink around in photoshop a bit sometimes. This time I had to clone my tubby ass out of the bumper and grill, amongst other things. I'll go back tomorrow and kill the halo as well.