"My GXP At Sunset"

This is my 325hp 08' Pontiac Grand Prix GXP. I've been planning this shot out for a while now but had to wait for the right conditions which finally were available last night. It was a very technical shot and certain things had to come together in order for it to be successful including the orange sunset in the background, the moon in the front coming up early and then having a car drive behind me on the access road. The set was also a bit technical having to use several small LED flashlights to light the rims which were placed at 7 o'clock and 5 o'clock at different angels pointed upward from the ground to enhance depth and color of the rim reflection and a small street light above left for the hood. All of the colors you see here are NATURAL and have not been manipulated by photoshop what so ever. This image doesn't even have an adjustment layer on it, only a small amount of unsharp mask for the rims was used so I didn't disturbed the natural pattern of the long exposure of the fog/parking light rays or the tail lights going by giving the effect that my car had been moving from the rear (see tail lights how they match up with the car that went by). I actually took about 15 shots every time a car went by behind my car over the course of an hour (not very many cars travel this road) and I am located in a parking lot.

The exposure was 4 seconds at f/9 ISO 800 and a Custom dialed in Kelvin White Balance temp of 8680 to enhance the sunset and reflections, I also am using Center Weight metering to get my car in balance and not over exposed because I wanted it to look like a shadow & outline with the rims & hood lines being high lighted. The moon is directly behind me giving off the soft light on the side of the car & hood and the sun is setting behind my car which is obscured by the wood line and just peaks through the trees. Again this is almost as it was Straight out of the Camera besides a small amount of sharpening, it's all natural and came out much better then I had planned with so many wonderful colors, textures & reflections going on! Enjoy

PS: Yesterday I shot over 1000 frames over 7.5 hours during a personal nature shoot at 4 different lakes, 2 parks, 2 forests etc., covering birds, trees, fisherman, mountain landscapes etc. that I will share over the next few days! I got some very interesting shots
Have a great day everyone
~Bill~

"My GXP At Sunset"

This is my 325hp 08' Pontiac Grand Prix GXP. I've been planning this shot out for a while now but had to wait for the right conditions which finally were available last night. It was a very technical shot and certain things had to come together in order for it to be successful including the orange sunset in the background, the moon in the front coming up early and then having a car drive behind me on the access road. The set was also a bit technical having to use several small LED flashlights to light the rims which were placed at 7 o'clock and 5 o'clock at different angels pointed upward from the ground to enhance depth and color of the rim reflection and a small street light above left for the hood. All of the colors you see here are NATURAL and have not been manipulated by photoshop what so ever. This image doesn't even have an adjustment layer on it, only a small amount of unsharp mask for the rims was used so I didn't disturbed the natural pattern of the long exposure of the fog/parking light rays or the tail lights going by giving the effect that my car had been moving from the rear (see tail lights how they match up with the car that went by). I actually took about 15 shots every time a car went by behind my car over the course of an hour (not very many cars travel this road) and I am located in a parking lot.

The exposure was 4 seconds at f/9 ISO 800 and a Custom dialed in Kelvin White Balance temp of 8680 to enhance the sunset and reflections, I also am using Center Weight metering to get my car in balance and not over exposed because I wanted it to look like a shadow & outline with the rims & hood lines being high lighted. The moon is directly behind me giving off the soft light on the side of the car & hood and the sun is setting behind my car which is obscured by the wood line and just peaks through the trees. Again this is almost as it was Straight out of the Camera besides a small amount of sharpening, it's all natural and came out much better then I had planned with so many wonderful colors, textures & reflections going on! Enjoy

PS: Yesterday I shot over 1000 frames over 7.5 hours during a personal nature shoot at 4 different lakes, 2 parks, 2 forests etc., covering birds, trees, fisherman, mountain landscapes etc. that I will share over the next few days! I got some very interesting shots
Have a great day everyone
~Bill~