Honda S2000 HDR

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Just a few days after doing my Corsa shots my mate told me he bought a Honda S2000. A light went on in my head. After a while people started looking at me funny because my head was glowing, but then I came up with an idea for a photo and it stopped. We went back to the same location as the Corsa shsot, and Dangerous's ST220 shoot and hoped for the best. It was freezing. So cold that after about 5 mins I couldn't use my camera. We spent most of the shoot sitting in the car warming up and watching the sand doing some funky things on the beach. Never seen it before and annoyingly I couldn't capture it in HDR. While sitting in the car waiting for the sun to do something the clouds came across and blocked the sun. "Damn!", I thought. That was until I noticed the amazing beams of light eminating from the cloud. "Ah ha!", I thought and jumped out the car. It was perfect. I couldn't have asked for a better sunset. Some guy in his Puma turned up and drove into the shot, then drove out of it and apologized. That was nice as most people just don't care. Thankfully everything was perfect. Stunning car, stunning sunset and ice cold wind.

This was the result;

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HDR Composite from 3 shots. Handheld, ISO200.
 
Thats so good its worht sending to Honda!

You never know, it might get you a job....!
 
Joe T said:
Thats so good its worht sending to Honda!

You never know, it might get you a job....!

It had crossed my mind. When I saw it my first thoughts were "OMG that looks pro" and then "How the hell did I do that?" :) My mate and I couldn't believe the result from 3 badly exposed photos. The lighting is perfect. My mate has a copy and specifically asked for his plate to be left in because people wouldn't believe its his car :) "Nah you nicked that from Honda's site" :D He's waiting for a Photobox poster offer to get it blown up.
 
Amazing image cyKey :)
That's what Photography is all about, battling through the elements to get the perfect photo.

I think the tarmac could be cleaned up though to remove some of the distracting marks.

cyKey said:
Some guy in his Puma turned up and drove into the shot,

Not guilty :)
 
Nice shot - My one criticism would be that I dont feel like you captured the characer/shape of the car... maybe a slightly more side-on angle would have stopped it looking so squashed.

Really like it though :)
 
stuart38 said:
Nice shot - My one criticism would be that I dont feel like you captured the characer/shape of the car... maybe a slightly more side-on angle would have stopped it looking so squashed.

Really like it though :)

Yer I did think of that at the time and went for a more extreme angle to accentuate the length of the bonnet but by that time the cloud had moved and the shot wasn't as good.
 
SDK^ said:
How did you manage to get 3 shots from exactly the same position hand held ?
Bracket and hope for the best ?

Yer :) Set it to bracket, held the button down and didn't breath. The overexposed shot was only 1/10 @ 10mm. Spot on :) I set Photomatrix to align the images too which did a great job.
 
Just like the corsa one, nice, but a car like this needs a more biased angle to the side and the steering turned left to get those aloys in a mean stance.
 
I really like it, I agree the tarmac could do with cleaning up a little in the foreground for definate though.

Tom
 
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