Had a local photographer do a photoshoot Sunday evening with my Camaro. I have yet to get the rest of the pictures, but he e-mailed me this one. He said this is HDR - High Dynamic Range... 3 pictures in one

Jason

 

cool pic, the lensflares look doctored as they are both identical when it comes to the ray scatter.

Do you have it in a larger resolution?

 

Your car is now on the desktop of seven of my co-workers that is a great picture!!!

Gunner

 

PM me your e-mail and I'll forward you the original he sent me...

 

Cool

 

Awesome pic!!! ...I do a little photography here and there, and have been wanting to take some HDR shots as well. To do it properly, you need the three bracketed exposures, AND the software to blend the three.

Basically, for those interested, HDR is three different exposures of the same photograph. One each to properly expose the highlights, midtones, and shadows. Then ya put 'em back together. Super neat stuff. Your eye adjusts almost instantly to whatever you're looking directly at, but you can't adjust to different lighting at the SAME time, which you CAN do with HDR, which is why it looks just not quite "real". It's almost "too" perfect of a shot, something your eye never sees.

 

 

GREAT PICS!

 

Got the disk... MANY of the pictures are very dark, he says they can be lightened up, I just have to pick which ones and he will do so. Anyways, here are a few..

Jason






Yes, the hood struts are worn out (after buying 3 sets, I refuse to buy another set)


And a few I took with my phone, just messing around the other day I should have washed my Yukon first, oh well..

 

nice photos.

reminds me of 'crush the lowered' and 'outrun the lifted' .. two window banners a local guy used to have years ago.. he owned a lifted truck and a lowered car.

 

pretty car man.

 

HDR shots always look amazing and when one stars such a good looking 3rd gen, even better. great looking car

 

I used to work with a guy that had a body lifted Bronco on 44s. He'd park hi truck at a slight angle, one tire up on the edge of the curb, and I'd park the nose of my dropped 93 RS under the front end. I could almost touch my windshield to his bumper before hitting the axle!

We worked nights so it was a bit dark (just the parking lot lights) and with one of his tires on the curb, making his front end slightly twisted...It gave the impression that it was actually parked on my car!


We were always messing with customers..... (graveyard shift at a convenience store).

What sized tires on on your Yukon? Any engine mods to help with the extra wheel & tire weight?

 

both cars are dope as ****. love em

 

The car and the pictures look great! I was thinking about getting picture done of my car too, but I don't know about the cost.

 

dunno how old you are, but make friends with college art kids (or friends of friends). i had a lot of photos done for free because my friends were in photography classes at the time and used the car for their homework.

 

Hey Ru, send em over to the same email I provided via Pm! Love your car and my desktop does too.

 

First off, thanks for all of the compliments guys !!!

Stephen, yeah, it's been modified, supercharged, alcohol Injection, roller rockers, headers, exhaust, geared, blah, blah, blah... It actually runs pretty well for a lifted truck. A few years back I was running 39.5" tires and it ran 14.2 @ 93 at Famoso raceway in Bakersfield Calif. I now have a new engine and trans. and am running 37" tires... should be able to run 13's with the right conditions

Jason

 

Hey Ru, What are the wheels called again? The more I look at em the more my waggon wheels seem old and boring.

 

They are Intro V-rod 5, 18" and 20"... I plan to either go 18" all around or possibly 19", just researching tire options before I commit to a size. I think these look good, but think the rears are too big for my taste..

This set looks alot better on my 57' Chevy



Jason

 

The photographer did these for free... He does alot of pin-up style shoots with my wife and we have become decent friends... Helps knowing the right folks

 

Really nice pictures of a gorgeous car. Now I have more pictures for my Windows screensaver at work. BTW, the folder is called TGO rides and that's all that shows up on my computer.

 

i think you know how I feel brotha!

 

amazing pics and Camaro, RU-Quick. I'm guessing this is the original Medium Quasar Blue?...Would you mind sharing a few large resolution pics
Thanks

 

@ RU-QWIK, I think the 2nd shot in post #9 is the best shot I've seen from this series.

The HDR shot is a bit obtrusive (there is a lot of halo in the shot, especially around the rear of the car) and I'm not that much of a fan of the lighting effects used.

If you have a camera RAW of the shot (original file/files depending on whether the HDR was generated using one or several different shots) could you send me a copy of the originals so I could give HDR a try on those?

I think the shot, as it stands there, offers a lot of potential for greatness. Clean car, good perspective, interesting background. Some additional editing could get more out of the shot.

 

I have to agree on it this point. While its an awesome attempt I think you should take a few different approaches to it. A properly blended HDR shot exposes the detail in ALL areas, and more closely approaches what the human eye can do.

Your 1/4 panels are very dark, much darker than they should be. HDR is supposed to allow a person to expose the detail in the shot from the darkest areas, to the lightest areas without over exposure. which is why it requires 3 exposure levels to begin with.

 

I recently made some HDR landscape shots composed of as many as 7 single shots to get it right. Normally 5 or 7 layers composed of 3-5 shots suffise however.

HDR is an interesting trick, but it is not at all that different from what old fashioned photography did in the darkroom. It´s just an easier process nowadays with photoshop and all the other available tools. I currently use UFRAW, Gimp and FDR for my high dynamic range shots.

Recently had a harddrive crash and lost a lot of work. I guess I should´ve made a backup

Here´s a deliberately very flat HDR composition, consisting of 5 photos, needed to flatten out the grass. I kept this nearly pastels to be able to use it as a non-intrusive background for my previous cellphone.



Just to point out the power of HDR mainly. With the picture posted I do not find the dark quarter panels all that bad. I would have expected a bit more definition mainly in the hood area and background.

Then again, I haven´t met any mastercraft photographers that fell out of the sky like that. HDR, like most other areas of photography requires a lot of practice, and I find the gesture of the free photoshoot and the extra work for the HDR image a really cool one.

 

sweet looking car!! for a minute i thought it was a teal color. true about knowin the right people. =)

 

i envy you soo much for having such beautiful cars. that is one of my biggest life goals right there

 

what color blue is that? amazing color?

 

I forgot all about this thread... Thank you all for the compliments ! The color is called "GM ultra metallic blue" I'd have to run down to my shop (where the car stays) to get the paint code. The photographer has asked me a few times to get another chance at creating the perfect photo of the car, once the weather gets better, we will do some more shots...

Jason

 

hdr is sick stuff. lots of options.

 

Wow those pictures are amaizig.....