This is a picture of one of my friends cars that someone took for him and I am trying to figure out how to get the same effect. I have a rebel xt btw.

 

looks like a foggy night with a car w/ their headlights on shining to the driver side of the Z.

edited in photoshop with a blue mask on it and that's about it?

 

I'm pretty sure this wasn't photoshopped it was done with white balance. At least thats was my friend whose car this is told me.

 

Sounds like you know how he did it... what are you asking?

 

or probably shot in RAW and edited to a cooler temp

 

I was told he adjusted the white balance but what did he do to the white balance to make it do that.

 

Exactly what jondele said.
Move the WB slider to a cooler temp.

 

werd

 

Ok cool thanks.

 

He made it cooler. Color temperature ranges on a scale measured in degrees Kelvin. In science class as a kid, if you ever take a prism and split high noon daylight, you learn that white light is actually all the colors of the rainbow combined. This is why midday daylight is considered to be very neutral. Harsh, but neutral.

Different sources of light do not actually exhibit this. Tungsten lights, fluorescent lights, light diffused through water vapor on an overcast or cloudy day. It all changes that spectrum of light that your camera's sensor sees.

[..insert voodoo I don't understand here..]

So color temperature is measured in degrees Kelvin because of something about a burning black mass. Blah blah blah..

[..more voodoo..]

Moving a picture to the left of neutral produces "cool" images, while shifting temperature to the right "warms" an image.

Examples:







Neutral







Does that make more sense? Hope it helped!