Photoshop galore
 

I've been learning a lot with photoshop recently.
Someone on my Evo forum asked for some tips regarding shooting car pictures. I did an edit on one of his photos to show how I would have done it. The difference between a professional looking shot and a P&S amateur shot is definitely more than just having the right equipment and shooting the correct exposure/composition.

His original:
http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h5...2/DSC_0045.jpg

My edit:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2468/...526c29f5_o.jpg

Neither really appeals to me, but I think that I have to disagree with you. Your comment confuses me because you didn't take the picture, which ought to be more than half of the work in the first place.

you made the picture worse.

it brings out the car more but the only downside of the edit is that the main focus of the picture is the sky. highlights are where the eye is drawn to.
if there was more light on the car thatd fix it

but you are still in the learning stages of ps good work though!

Car photography professionals go through many many layers in Photoshop to make their pictures look the way they do. Yes, the original picture must be good, but Photoshop is what makes a good picture a great picture, or a great picture an amazing picture.

I should have added usually your pictures are fine...I guess you didn't get a high res shot to work with, the evo looks really grainy.

Yeah, the sky edit was more to show the guy how I would have originally gone about shooting in a graveyard setting. I would want a dark sky to begin with to make a grim setting. I tried to put more light on the car, but since it was underexposed to begin with there wasn't much I could do.

But thanks for the tip regarding the sky.

I don't like it, it's too blue. The picture sucks to begin with though so, I guess if you had taken the picture it would've been better because normally I like your work.

My take:
Fixed Original -
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2458/...fdbbb6dcd8.jpg

and

PP
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2772/...9fa17dd976.jpg

Good work captain, the first one is exactly what needed to be done.

Uhhhh. I like the excessive dodging on the bush.

its just a odd color of a car to shoot.
dont shoot grey cars during a overcast day
unless you are bob macmillan lol

off camera flashes would help or moving the car in a direction to where anysort of natural light on an overcast day could hit it
or just focus on the car and not have as much open space to distract one from the car

im rambling now

if i would have done it, i would never use that photo...ever. bad location bad lighting. no edit would save that shot. sorry if i sound dickish, im just being honest.

the two things that come to mind here are:

there's beauty is subtlety...

great photos are made in the camera, not in photoshop

That's the bush of God. It burst into flames shortly after.

photoshop makes the photo? get the **** out of here. so all the photos before we had digital editing are terrible? i wish i could see your edit to that terrible photo.

I never said PS makes the photo. Read carefully. I said PS can elevate a photo to the next level.

I deleted my edit from my photo server because I didn't take the picture, so no point in having it up there.

I don't really know why I made this thread. I was really tired after work last night and slightly wired from a Redbull, but clearly I wasn't thinking straight. For the most part I was just playing around with PS because I learned how to do a few things earlier last week. I was reading through a photo book today and the author said something relative to this--a professional knows when to stop (in regards to editing a photo on photoshop).

just sayin

which is taking a photo to the next level. i dont understand the need for you to always be a dick?

pretty much agree with everyone that the edit doesnt help the pic... and also that its a lot easier when you get the pic right or as close to it right in camera