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Nocturnal

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I'm not sure who actually knows on here, but I'm about to graduate as a Royal Air Force Photographer (although a lot of our work is alongside the Navy and Army). I posted some quick cropped shots of a TVR I shot last week, which was to form part of a photo essay I've been doing at work for my portfolio, and as I've just been posted to work alongside the 'Eurofighter' Typhoon and Battle of Britain Memorial Flight (BBMF), I'm not sure if I'll have much free time to post the completed essay up at a later date.

Anyway, these are 9 of the images used, I still need to shoot one more (I'll be using my own car and a model), but I'll get that up when I'm settled again (maybe during our Christmas leave). The theme is simply 'automotive'.

http://img593.imageshack.**/img593/4043/p1copy.jpg

http://img255.imageshack.**/img255/610/15335697.jpg

http://img12.imageshack.**/img12/8471/65817784.jpg

http://img528.imageshack.**/img528/5391/88244595.jpg

http://img703.imageshack.**/img703/2613/96452385.jpg

http://img15.imageshack.**/img15/207/46849854.jpg

http://img16.imageshack.**/img16/8558/74256382.jpg

http://img522.imageshack.**/img522/4034/92396854.jpg

http://img194.imageshack.**/img194/8275/14576145.jpg

Thanks for looking :)
 
Both skyline shots are ridiculously halo'ed.
 
I'd be concerned about using the Rogue Status name (It's already a pretty well established clothing company)

The compositions and ideas behind the shots are all really strong but I can't help but wonder would they look better in a non-HDR treatment ?
 
I thought I'd heard of the name somewhere before, should've tried a better search! Back to the drawing board, haha. Luckily I've only used it on two sets of images, both on here! Thanks for telling me!

The images themselves are all deliberately over-processed, particularly the yellow R34, as I have to present this essay to a board of sponsors, and need to have plenty to talk about with each image, including planning, equipment, post processing etc. There's only one image which is HDR'd though, which is the Custom-Cab. The rest have either been lit with fill-in flash, or have had layers and effects put on them to give a higher dynamic range. Again to go back to the R34, the original image is exposed for the car, so the sky is over-exposed (and dull). They're all edited from .NEF (RAW), so there's plenty of exposure adjustment involved there which could also give the look. The TVR and helmet shots though are both pretty much straight from camera, but luckily there's plenty to talk about with lighting set-ups instead!
 
Cold Fussion said:
Pardon my ignorance but I just can't see deliberately over processing an image just so you have more to talk about as a good way of going about it.
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this! the skyline and mustang look like they are drawings!
 
http://img528.imageshack.**/img528/5391/88244595.jpg
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Normally Pretty much always, I'd say that this is over-processed / photographic cancer / ocular rape ... but, somehow, it actually works for this one. It's very graphic. I think it has somewhat of a video-game motif and, of course, being a Skyline, it fits the bill.

My only criticism is that there is no space above the tip of the spoiler at the very top of the image.
 
bone said:
this! the skyline and mustang look like they are drawings!
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That's the idea...

Just to clarify, the title is 'Auto-Art'. I wanted some of the images to look virtual, not photographic. The idea behind the presentation was to showcase yourself, based on your technical and artistic abilities. You could argue that I would've got the same score had I used the bare minimum of post-processing, and maybe you'd be right. However, all the images I set out to create all turned out exactly how I'd sketched and envisaged them beforehand, and all hit the mark for what I wanted to show.

Anyway, as an update, the final shot I used was:
http://img222.imageshack.**/img222/1092/51336548.jpg

And I was marked as 'distinction' for the presentation (that's a score above 90%). I've since graduated and been posted (hence the late reply).

Epp - You're bang on about the space above the spoiler, it's the one thing I didn't like about one of my favourite images. Unfortunately, that was my mistake as I cropped too tightly in-camera, and didn't interrogate the screen hard-enough after I'd taken the shot to realise!
 
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