Messing Around (GTO Interior Shot, Quality or Crap?)

[josh99ta]

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2401/2306943259_287676cdeb_o.jpg

I've got my problems with it (should have taken it from the passenger's side to show off the center stack, glare on the gauges which I don't know how to prevent, and the fact that I really need to get down in the 10-12mm range to get the dash + both headrests in the shot), but aside from that it's still one of my better if not my best interior shot so I figured I'd share.

[Bob-E]

Looks great Josh. Care to elaborate on your lighting set up and PP?

[bigmike83]

looks great, straight out of a magazine

[Slovette]

awesome Picture

[northtnguy]

Oh boy, Josh ... You out did yourself on that shot.

I'm like Bob ... fill us in on the setup for the shot!

Don

[josh99ta]

Thanks guys. I actually posted up the wrong one. I was getting a color cast from the light and I didn't post the color corrected shot. I fixed it now and the right shot is up.

The lighting was just ambient light. I took the picture in the parking lot of my girlfriend's apartment complex. It was nice soft late afternoon light that was very even across the interior of the car, which was what I was waiting for.

Then I just went in, cropped it a bit as my 18-135mm doesn't get as wide as I needed and I had some door sill in the shot, I cloned out all the dirt and stuff in the floorboard (LOL) and my girlfriend left her Columbia jacket behind my driver's seat so I had to clone that out in the lower right corner too, I had to desaturate the release button on the seat belt latch because it was highly distracting, and I put in my pseudo studio backdrop. I'm really wanting to do one with a super bright white backdrop but I just can't seem to get it to look the way it looks in my head. Haha.

[josh99ta]

Here you guys go, normally not my style to post up the "before" shot, but it's different when you're dealing with guys that know that post-processing is just as much a part of photography and the finished result as the actual shot is. You have to have a good foundation (a solid original shot) to build on, but color correction and finalizing the vision of the photographer is tweaked and tuned in post. Here is what I started with...

http://img125.imageshack.us/img125/8307/dsc0121xh1.jpg

Normally I'd clean the car up and search for a solid backdrop to drastically reduce my necessary post work, but this was just an experimental interior shot so I didn't worry about all that. Just wanted to see what I could come up with. I'll worry about fine tuning it the next time around. ;)