Skline (Quick and dirty)

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My friend took me along to car meet with about 40 other Japanese imports there, me and my friend decided to do some quick and dirty shots of his car. A proper shoot is on the diary along with a Evo 6 soon.

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Its done in post.

You can get the real effect if you rigged your camera onto the car which would look cleaner and even better pop.
 
Nice write-up tbs.

Two quick points:

1. I think you meant Radial Blur rather than Radical Blur. :p

2. Wouldn't it be more accurate to use the pen tool and create a vector mask rather than a soft brush with a layer mask or do you use the soft edge of the brush to 'ease' in the object which is to be the focal point?

Panzer
 
Thanks Panzers, it was just a quick write up so might have a few spelling mistakes in there trying to edit it so its reads better, hence Radical blur :p

It easier with the brush and you can do it quicker, pen tool would be more accurate, but since youre blurring you dont really want harsh edges, you want soft so its blends in, resize the brush to fine tune it, thats what I do. :)
 
Heres some comments, they may seem harsh but don't take them that way. just my feelings.

I have 2 major criticisms
1) The borders are terribly distracting and detract from the photos rather than adding.
2) The watermark is horrible even more distracting.


Trying to ignore the above I have some minor comments:
Photo 1) car seems a little soft, the high-keying has removed details form the car which would be nice to see in the highlights. Compositionally, I don't like the wasted space at the bottom and would prefer a more in-the-face front of the car. Lens flare is also distracting.
photo 2:highlights are better, prefer the composition, and seems a little sharper but not perfect. The radial blur looks very fake. I think the idea of the effect is very cool, but it just isn't working well here. Perhaps a more subtle of even a softened effect would work better.
Photo 3) The out of focus part is the closest and largest part of the image, the in-focus detail is the re-counter and fuel gage. I have no idea why. Why not have the speedo nice and focussed. Its not like the rev counter is showing anything interesting, and who cares about the fuel?.
 
D.P. said:
Heres some comments, they may seem harsh but don't take them that way. just my feelings.

I have 2 major criticisms
1) The borders are terribly distracting and detract from the photos rather than adding.
2) The watermark is horrible even more distracting.


Trying to ignore the above I have some minor comments:
Photo 1) car seems a little soft, the high-keying has removed details form the car which would be nice to see in the highlights. Compositionally, I don't like the wasted space at the bottom and would prefer a more in-the-face front of the car. Lens flare is also distracting.
photo 2:highlights are better, prefer the composition, and seems a little sharper but not perfect. The radial blur looks very fake. I think the idea of the effect is very cool, but it just isn't working well here. Perhaps a more subtle of even a softened effect would work better.
Photo 3) The out of focus part is the closest and largest part of the image, the in-focus detail is the re-counter and fuel gage. I have no idea why. Why not have the speedo nice and focussed. Its not like the rev counter is showing anything interesting, and who cares about the fuel?.
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tbs said:
quick and dirty
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Cool shots. I've got some really similar ones of a mates crx... Don't know what I've done with them but will try and dig them out!
 
D.P. said:
Heres some comments, they may seem harsh but don't take them that way. just my feelings.

I have 2 major criticisms
1) The borders are terribly distracting and detract from the photos rather than adding.
2) The watermark is horrible even more distracting.

Trying to ignore the above I have some minor comments:

Photo 1) car seems a little soft, the high-keying has removed details form the car which would be nice to see in the highlights. Compositionally, I don't like the wasted space at the bottom and would prefer a more in-the-face front of the car. Lens flare is also distracting.

photo 2)highlights are better, prefer the composition, and seems a little sharper but not perfect. The radial blur looks very fake. I think the idea of the effect is very cool, but it just isn't working well here. Perhaps a more subtle of even a softened effect would work better.

Photo 3) The out of focus part is the closest and largest part of the image, the in-focus detail is the re-counter and fuel gage. I have no idea why. Why not have the speedo nice and focussed. Its not like the rev counter is showing anything interesting, and who cares about the fuel?.
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Thats perfectly fine dude.

Photo 1) The car is soft because the bokeh was added in in post. I actually soften the cars edge and have the front of the car (bonnet, lights and bumper etc) to be the focus points. I dont particularly like tight spaces in photos, I like unused space, it gives a more larger or smaller then life look and feel, for me anyway. The flares are from the lights itself, and wasnt added in post if thats what you thought.

Photo 2) The reason why this image wasnt sharp is because the car is white. A white car with dark surroundings makes the car looks like its pasted into the scene. I added a slight sharpening to the image but not a lot, since I didnt want harsh shadows/lines. The cars isnt moving and my intentions wasnt trying to make like the car was moving, the intention the radial blur is to make it look tunnel vision with a static object.

Photo 3) I liked the colors, its not a special image or subject, I just liked the glowing red :p
 
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