what do you think?

 

Cool, but there are a few things you could have done a tad differently to make it look professionally done:

1. Killed most of the hotspots/white light reflections in the paint.
2. Killed the State Inspection/City stickers
3. Is the S2000 centered and straight? - turn your PS grids on.

If you want, send me the original file and I'll show you what I'm talking about and explain how to get there.

 

hmmm now that you pointed the flaws out...it looks like a sloppy job.

will try again. thanks for the CC. =)

 

The blurred upper portions and the crisp lower portions dont seem to jive with my eye. Also, the car is definitely a bit crooked. How much of the lighting effects are real and how much is it photoshop? Still a very nice pic nonetheless!

After seeing a bunch of these indoor garage shots lately, I think I may give it a go as well and hope to produce something like the below.

check out this pic taken by 'woobie':


Taken from here:
http://forums.bimmerforums.com/forum...d.php?t=689086

 

u have an M5??? nice...

that picture i cropped above, my s2k is sitting right next to an M5 too.

 

I'm not 100% sure, but if I were to guess this is what you'd do to get a shot like that.

1. Take about 9 different images at the same focus and aperture, but at differing shutter speeds in full stop increments. A tripod is an absolute must for this, and a remote trigger or delayed timer would help too.

2. Open the images in PS CS2 or a HDR program to compose the "shot" into one HDR image. You'll have to play with a few of the 9 images to get it right - most HDR programs will only use 5 or 7.

3. Use some layers with masks to separate the car from the background, and darken the background.

That's basically all there is to it.....with a few minor details of course.

The only thing I don't like about that image is that the overhead light is reflected on the BMW in such a way that it messes the whole look of being "top-notch" up. Other than that, I really like it

 

Not to go off topic here, but since you brought up HDR, I have a quick question..

All the tutorials tell you to take several shots with different exposures. Can I just take a properly exposed RAW photo and "develop" it 5 or so times changing the exposure value? Wouldn't this be essentially the same thing?

 

Not really. An HDR basically kills shadows (if you do it right) and pushes colors harder. You could play with it to get stronger colors, but in the end it wouldn't have the same effect.

Now.....I say that, but haven't tried it - so all in all, I really don't know what the results would be. Give it a shot and post your results - I bet you can do some cool stuff, even if it isn't a true HDR.

 

Hmmm. Sure, i'll give it a shot. Since I haven't done any HDR I have nothing to compare to, but we'll see what happens!

 

That BMW photo doesn't look HDR to me. I know how to do that without using HDR. You could take a single JPG and make that photo.