Pearl White 370Z
 

Here are some new shots. I decided to give these a more natural look as compared to my last set. I shot these in RAW, so the quality is much better. Very little post processing also, just a few tweaks and airbrushing out crap. I made a few little mistakes here and there, but anyway...

These were all shot with a Canon T2i, RAW, full manual mode, custom white balance, CPL filter and anti-glare filter.

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Ive got the last pic in HD on the monitor, glorious PW!

shots look good, background leaves a little to be desired but it's not distracting (which is a good thing). keep it up!

thanks. ive always preferred shots of the car without distracting backgrounds.

don't we all...................... oh wait, nvm lol

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BTW, great pics. Love the car and color.

thanks!

beautiful photos! great job!

thank you!

Nice. What did you set your custom white balance with? The third shot appears a little blue.

I dont remember exactly, but I believe the camera setting for the shot was the same as the other shots, but the darkness of the angle made it more blue. I think i had everything turned down one notch except blue. Ive always used a cooler setting for my shots, im not a warm kinda person.

one of my favorite tricks in photoshop (if you have it) is to go to "Hue/Saturation..." and take blue and cyan down about -30 or -40 on saturation if it's not a blue vehicle. if i've got a nice blue sky in the picture, i'll hit it with the history brush immediately after to bring it back and leave the car without the blue. works great on black cars

yeah I do that to, but for these I didnt do much PP at all. This set isnt nearly as good as my other previous set because of this, I think anyway.

If you shoot a white card (search for whibal, expo disc or x-rite white card) prior to shooting your image then select custom white balance you will get a totally neutral image. If you shoot raw and render the file with the DPP software that came free with your camera (this software will result in the cleanest rendering, it is a little clunky to use at first but the results are worth it) and adjust the color to your liking, the results will be awesome. If you shoot jpg then go into the color balance settings (PS) and do a slight shift there. Hue and saturation will also allow you to control this but in a different way. Adding cyan saturation is very different from shifting color balance. If you over saturate too much you can make the file difficult to print. Out of gamut color resulting from too much saturation adjustments (particularly on a jpg file) can be problematic. Also, if you shoot raw the original raw file is never changed. If you screw up the final file you always have the original raw. When you adjust the jpg the changes are final. Also, jpg compression is very destructive. Multipe saves can really destroy the file. If you shoot jpg I advise to save the file first (before any changes are made) as a tiff and work on that.