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- Pola3F0x
Hi GTPlanet.
I sometimes get the question "Can you make a tutorial on how to do a good GT6 photo?" And most of the time, i have said no. But i thought, why the heck not, i'll try.
As a real life photographer, i usually do realistic photos, and some might fall under tha catagory "artistic" but thats not why im going for.
I'll show you what i mean.
Abused supra by EL.Media
Its a real shot, with a surreal touch.
It's also one of my favorite shots.
Now, the good thing with GT6, is that i can go ANYWHERE on the track, to get the shot i want.
Right in front of the car, right over over it, i can move around. And the best part, i have multiple tries on each shot. Longer exposure time, shorter, brighter, darker. You name it. Thats something i dont have in real life, so i use a lot if time, just to set up the camera, wait for the sun to be where i want it. And ofcourse, the car. Its not a cool shot if a driftcar is going timeatteck style around the corner.
Now to GT6, i work by a "4 step list"
Imagination:
See the picture in your head, what car, colors, setting. See the finished photo in your head.
The composition:
Now, that you have seen you shot in your head. Lets get to work. Grab you car, go to the track, and go into track settings. Set the time of day (If possible) and weather (also if possible)
Go onto the track, and drive. Do one lap to see if the light is correct. Then start the real work. Drive at a slower pace than you would in a race. This is because you dont want to go outside of the driving line. Not the racing line. But the driving line you need for your shot. When done, go to the replay, and do next step
The phot technical:
Now, here i see some bad work among the starters, but thats ok, you will learn.
Play around with camera angles, focal lengths and all that.
I have decided to toss in a example.
Tutorial example, unedited
Dont remember the setting, but i belive it was F11.0, 1/100sec.
Now, as you can see, this is a panorama shot. But dont worry, i will get back to that later.
Thats the raw shot (after stitching), its really dull, flat picture.
Thats what we're going to use in the next step.
The editing:
For editing, i prefer to use Lightroom. It gives me the ability to work fast and easy on every picture.
The same goes for Photoshop Camera Raw. Altho, i havent found a way to use camera raw on .jpg files yet. So ill go trough some of the basics here.
First, Open the picture in Lightroom.
You can see all the bars on the right is at 0. Now if this was a RAW file (from a camera) it would say some difrent things, like it would have whitebalance instead of temprature. etc
Depending on what you want, go ahead and adjust some bars. I normally start with Temprature, and since i want this picture to be a bit warm, il drag the temp bar right.
Now, it wont do much diffrence since i only went for +14, but i felt that was enough
Next, the pic is bright enough to skip the exposure tab, so i went for the contrast.
That makes a little more diffrence. Next, adjusting Highlighs, Shadows, Whites and Blacks.
You can see that the front of the car is REALLY bright, so adjust down the Highlights.
Next, the dark parts of the car got really dark. so we'll adjust them a bit up with the Shadows
Much better, Next adjust down the Whites a bit, and the Blacks a little bit up, like so
and
The reason i pushed the Shadows and Blacks up, is because i wanted sort of a HDR look to the picture.
One of the things that makes the biggest diffrence, is the Clarity. This one sort of outlines all the contrast.
Make it a little more colorful with Vibrance and Saturation like next two pics.
Almost done! Just something to make the tiers look black.
Just one more, Highlight Priority.
All done!
Lets see how it is.
Compared to the original, now you can see how much diffrence it made.
After this, i sent it to Photoshop for a frame, and logo.
Hope this helps some people to get started.
And yes, im well aware i have some/alot of mistypes, but most of you will be able to understand what im saying.
Polarfox
I sometimes get the question "Can you make a tutorial on how to do a good GT6 photo?" And most of the time, i have said no. But i thought, why the heck not, i'll try.
As a real life photographer, i usually do realistic photos, and some might fall under tha catagory "artistic" but thats not why im going for.
I'll show you what i mean.
Abused supra by EL.Media
Its a real shot, with a surreal touch.
It's also one of my favorite shots.
Now, the good thing with GT6, is that i can go ANYWHERE on the track, to get the shot i want.
Right in front of the car, right over over it, i can move around. And the best part, i have multiple tries on each shot. Longer exposure time, shorter, brighter, darker. You name it. Thats something i dont have in real life, so i use a lot if time, just to set up the camera, wait for the sun to be where i want it. And ofcourse, the car. Its not a cool shot if a driftcar is going timeatteck style around the corner.
Now to GT6, i work by a "4 step list"
- Imagination
- The composition.
- The photo technical.
- The editing.
Imagination:
See the picture in your head, what car, colors, setting. See the finished photo in your head.
The composition:
Now, that you have seen you shot in your head. Lets get to work. Grab you car, go to the track, and go into track settings. Set the time of day (If possible) and weather (also if possible)
Go onto the track, and drive. Do one lap to see if the light is correct. Then start the real work. Drive at a slower pace than you would in a race. This is because you dont want to go outside of the driving line. Not the racing line. But the driving line you need for your shot. When done, go to the replay, and do next step
The phot technical:
Now, here i see some bad work among the starters, but thats ok, you will learn.
Play around with camera angles, focal lengths and all that.
I have decided to toss in a example.
Tutorial example, unedited
Dont remember the setting, but i belive it was F11.0, 1/100sec.
Now, as you can see, this is a panorama shot. But dont worry, i will get back to that later.
Thats the raw shot (after stitching), its really dull, flat picture.
Thats what we're going to use in the next step.
The editing:
For editing, i prefer to use Lightroom. It gives me the ability to work fast and easy on every picture.
The same goes for Photoshop Camera Raw. Altho, i havent found a way to use camera raw on .jpg files yet. So ill go trough some of the basics here.
First, Open the picture in Lightroom.
You can see all the bars on the right is at 0. Now if this was a RAW file (from a camera) it would say some difrent things, like it would have whitebalance instead of temprature. etc
Depending on what you want, go ahead and adjust some bars. I normally start with Temprature, and since i want this picture to be a bit warm, il drag the temp bar right.
Now, it wont do much diffrence since i only went for +14, but i felt that was enough
Next, the pic is bright enough to skip the exposure tab, so i went for the contrast.
That makes a little more diffrence. Next, adjusting Highlighs, Shadows, Whites and Blacks.
You can see that the front of the car is REALLY bright, so adjust down the Highlights.
Next, the dark parts of the car got really dark. so we'll adjust them a bit up with the Shadows
Much better, Next adjust down the Whites a bit, and the Blacks a little bit up, like so
and
The reason i pushed the Shadows and Blacks up, is because i wanted sort of a HDR look to the picture.
One of the things that makes the biggest diffrence, is the Clarity. This one sort of outlines all the contrast.
Make it a little more colorful with Vibrance and Saturation like next two pics.
Almost done! Just something to make the tiers look black.
Just one more, Highlight Priority.
All done!
Lets see how it is.
Compared to the original, now you can see how much diffrence it made.
After this, i sent it to Photoshop for a frame, and logo.
Hope this helps some people to get started.
And yes, im well aware i have some/alot of mistypes, but most of you will be able to understand what im saying.
Polarfox
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