GT4 PhotoMode/Photoshop Competition: Week 4

[suzq044]

i think i'll mess with this when i get home tonight.

 

[Vicious VP]

Here is my last ... I think. Look to my original post please ... ^^ 👍

 

[franz]

same car with 3 different styles ... pretty cool
like the idea for the last one though

 

[EVO Lancer]

Final Entry
Hope you guys like it!

 

[Vicious VP]

Final Entry
Hope you guys like it!

Nice! At that size, it must be a centerfold!

 

[franz]

pretty good Evo ... nice to see someone use panorama as well

 

[LandoAWD]

My junk...figured if I posted something horrible, people wouldn't worry about being the worst and actually get more folks in here.

 

[felix2107]

Final Entry

 

[Easy$$]

Here is my BMW ad for the week.

ENTRYS(S)

The idea is cool, but you should look at your reflection dimming, saturation and fresnel falloff.

In reality, when your eye is parallel to something the more reflective that surface becomes and vice versa. The more perpendicular your eye is to that surface the less reflective it is.

So think as if you were standing next to a lake. You look down at the the lake and while you can see a refelction its not very clear. Now pretend you rotate your head up parallel to the horizon. The further you tilt your head up the more mirror like the surface of the water becomes.

As for the saturation...you could have the deepest darkest lacquer finish on a car youve ever seen. You will NEVER have the same amount of saturation in the reflection as you on the actual object. Whether it be a car or not.

Its a nice image as is...but it could be even better some more tweaking.

 

[Vicious VP]

The idea is cool, but you should look at your reflection dimming, saturation and fresnel falloff.

In reality, when your eye is parallel to something the more reflective that surface becomes and vice versa. The more perpendicular your eye is to that surface the less reflective it is.

So think as if you were standing next to a lake. You look down at the the lake and while you can see a refelction its not very clear. Now pretend you rotate your head up parallel to the horizon. The further you tilt your head up the more mirror like the surface of the water becomes.

As for the saturation...you could have the deepest darkest lacquer finish on a car youve ever seen. You will NEVER have the same amount of saturation in the reflection as you on the actual object. Whether it be a car or not.

Its a nice image as is...but it could be even better some more tweaking.

MY REBUTTAL:

I thought the same - to try and make it look like an outdoor shot, but could not get the colors the way I wanted. So I went for a shot that could be produced in a studio.

The car is on a platform that is just out of the water that was maybe 18" deep. With water that shallow and in controlled lighting, you can remove any tint that the water may have in a natural environment as well as retain the true color of the car. With that said, each car had to be "shot" separately. As they were, they could refer to the digital image of the previous car and adjust the lighting to match. By doing that you could get a very close lighting and color composition.

After all, the image would not have the same visual impact if you went for a "true" representation of a natural lake reflection. You would have to do some serious Photoshopping in order to get the colors right. Right?

EDIT:

Here is a more "natural" version. Like you would get outdoors in an uncontrolled environment. 👍 Distorted, blurry, darkened, lightened & desaturated.

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This is posted above as well.

 

[//. /. '/]

Entry

 

[Vicious VP]

Entry

Looks like it is at a dealership. What does it say?

 

[//. /. '/]

http://www.worldlingo.com/en/products_services/worldlingo_translator.html

 

[Vicious VP]

http://www.worldlingo.com/en/products_services/worldlingo_translator.html

Competition Zuchtete - well, that got half of it!

 

[//. /. '/]

it says "Competition Bred" I went with German text because that model isn't available in the US (where I'm at)

 

[Vicious VP]

it says "Competition Bred" I went with German text because that model isn't available in the US (where I'm at)

Cool. Thank you!

 

[kennythebomb]

My junk...figured if I posted something horrible, people wouldn't worry about being the worst and actually get more folks in here.

haha great text

 

[EVO Lancer]

Here are my next two entries!
Final Entry 2

Final Entry 3

 

[Vicious VP]

Here is another. I just can't stop!

Enjoy​

 

[Easy$$]

Its pretty simple but I thought it was cool.

ENTRY

 

[franz]

looks good Easy$$
its cool to make old ad

 

[Easy$$]

Here is another. I just can't stop!

Enjoy​

You should take a pic of an Audi, Lexus, etc. on the track and use that as the reflection image on the mirror. I dunno how well it would work or turn out but, it sounds like a good idea in my head.

Or if you could figure out how to get the shot. Do it from like the rear quarter panel foward looking at the side mirror. Then on the left side of your image use the silhouete of the car and mirror and have the same kinda Audi, Lexus, etc shot as the reflection. Just resizing and moving your text to the right and you could still have the small image of the car on there. Youd have to move the BMW logo as well i guess.

Damn...why didnt I think of that mirror thing first!

 

[slo-car]

You should take a pic of an Audi, Lexus, etc. on the track and use that as the reflection image on the mirror. I dunno how well it would work or turn out but, it sounds like a good idea in my head.

Or if you could figure out how to get the shot. Do it from like the rear quarter panel foward looking at the side mirror. Then on the left side of your image use the silhouete of the car and mirror and have the same kinda Audi, Lexus, etc shot as the reflection. Just resizing and moving your text to the right and you could still have the small image of the car on there. Youd have to move the BMW logo as well i guess.

Damn...why didnt I think of that mirror thing first!

You can do one with the taillights/rear end. similar thing

 

[//. /. '/]

you could do the side mirror and change the text to "Objects in mirror are plenty and often"

......don't use that it's mine!!!!

 

[Swissbear]

Entry

Your German is a little rusty. Should read: Competitzion Gezuechtet (sorry don't have an umlaut to put over the "u"). "Konkurrenz" is not usually associated with auto racing. It's more associated with a series of events that lead up to an overall winner.

 

[//. /. '/]

Your German is a little rusty. Should read: Competitzion Gezuechtet (sorry don't have an umlaut to put over the "u"). "Konkurrenz" is not usually associated with auto racing. It's more associated with a series of events that lead up to an overall winner.

ahh well I was using that site, maybe I'll change it to english I was hoping for "Race Bred" but couldn't find the german for that

 

[Swissbear]

ahh well I was using that site, maybe I'll change it to english I was hoping for "Race Bred" but couldn't find the german for that

In that cas, substitute "Rennen" in place of "Konkurrenz" and it all good. Or you could always use "Rennwagen" (racecar) also.

 

[//. /. '/]

cool, I got that word but I than it meant "run"

 

[//. /. '/]

changed my entry

 

[Vicious VP]

Okay. Here is one as suggested ... with a road in the mirror!

Weeeeeeee!​