I tightened up the colors and selectively massaged red hues to bring out the bricks.

Regarding the car itself, after much (too much) consideration, I decided to keep the contrast significant to empower the black-- although at the cost of reducing the impact of the car's reflections.

View Medium On Black

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I think I journeyed deeper into the realm of HDR on this one.

I had to fight with this nasty green glow from a street light on the far right of this shot. You can see the glow of green on the front wheel. I guess it has it's place because I like the contribution to the front wheel, however, color correction was needed for Carlos's face.

The original setup employed a single SB-600 (in TTL mode) attached to the D60 by an SC-28 cable and triggered through a white umbrella, camera right and a bit in front of subject. Distance: about 12 ft away and about 6.5 feet high.

Learned a few things on this shoot (unfortunately, the hard way). Now I know a few more things NOT to do that will make post-process work less tedious and time consuming.... ;) I'm sure other "improvements" could be made to this, but I'm done.

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GO BLACK! | Full Stream on Black

I don't wanna be one to flood my stream with the same thing over and over again, but when it comes to this car.... sorry, it's hard not to. Well, this is the penultimate one, anyway...

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