Highkey 350z

[NCPhotog]

i was trying my hand at highkey. first time trying it so let me know what you think

[boostedb16]

looks good, explain highkey please....................

[On_Her_Face]

Love the color.

[RL...]

i always like your pics, this one is great as well

[e30pwr]

you no has more shots?

[NCPhotog]

yea i do they will be up tonight.

highkey is basically where the foreground or background is exposed 2 or more stops over than the actual exposure than the scene hope that helps at all

[Slow Motion]

I know how to do high key on my point and shoot. The color of the car is set off by the way the background looks.Nice pic. Done right in my book.

[NCPhotog]

thanks

[Prime.]

awesome picture and car. nice job.

[boostedb16]

yea i do they will be up tonight.

highkey is basically where the foreground or background is exposed 2 or more stops over than the actual exposure than the scene hope that helps at all

is this something done in camera or post processing? sorry for all the questions but this looks bad ass.

[Prime.]

is this something done in camera or post processing? sorry for all the questions but this looks bad ass.

pretty sure it's 2 or more pictures merged together.

[RL...]

is this something done in camera or post processing? sorry for all the questions but this looks bad ass.

in pp

[RL...]

pretty sure it's 2 or more pictures merged together.

i doubt it, he couldve just selected the background by selecting the car, then going to select > inverse, and going to brightness and overexposed the image a little.

[NCPhotog]

actually this is just one image. the exposure is only one stop over what the orginal was. i did not want to have blown out sections of the image. the rest of PP. not much though. maybe three four layers at most. very simple to do

[NCPhotog]

you can do this in camera to a extent but that is when massive strobes are needed

[boostedb16]

in pp

i thought so, i just seen the post where the guy said he can do this with his point and shoot.

[boostedb16]

if you dont mind and i understand if you do but could you post a image build thread or pm it to me?????????

[EJ_Allmota]

shot looks great, well done..

[NCPhotog]

if you dont mind and i understand if you do but could you post a image build thread or pm it to me?????????

yea give me a few and i will have some screen shots up on how i did it

[NCPhotog]

if you dont mind and i understand if you do but could you post a image build thread or pm it to me?????????

yea give me a few and i will have some screen shots up on how i did it

[boostedb16]

thanks.............+13 reps for you.

[G.C]

dam that z is on the ground. very nice.

[NCPhotog]

hahaha. thanks ok so here we go

bring you image in to PS



next make a blank layer for spot healing or cloning



next i did some selctive color to pull the color of the car out



now i did some desaturation to the window to get rid of the blue/cyan color



now the fun part. i made a channel mixer adjustment layer. make sure monochrome has a check next to it. now this is all on what you want your image to look like move the rgb sliders till desired look. o also make sure the layer blending mode is on SCREEN so it will not be black and white.



also make sure you make a layer mask around the car that you can reuse



next i went in to hue saturation and desatuated everything bout 50 percent mainly the yellows notice by the image above to the one below near the stairs



next i did a minor curves adjustment layer to the background and forground



next for the shadow under the bumper i did another curves adjusment just pulling it down



next i added a minor radial gradient in the upper left corner



last but not least i did another hue saturation and changed the blue hue to a magentaish color and minor desaturation to match the brickyard color

[Got Milk?]

o my eyes. wtf am i missing here, pictures sucks. nice car.

[DeeAOne]

shit looks awesome man. and that z is slammed.

[Dirty Octopus™]

great work Kyle!

[NCPhotog]

thanks for the comments

[allout13]

oh noes! first post pic is MIA

I was going to use it for my desktop
cool picture

[NCPhotog]

fixed. for some reason i was having problems with my flickr today

[DrAE86Toreno]

thats a gorgeous car.!

[Tails]

Pic looks pretty awesome man! +rep for ya!

[ilovemyhonda.]

Looks great, like a plain and simple picture that looks good. good job! and the car is nice.

[Genji-Sama]

Wow, I love this shot, even after ur explanation i'm still not sure what hikey is but the shot is cool and the subject is gorgeous

[e30pwr]

seen the rest of your shots on stancenation.....i does like. and reps for explaining how you did the shot

[Hondizzle!]

Love the car and a dope shot. Props for trying new things. Only complaint I have is the reflections in the door of the car. Without that this image would be A++.

[Nemesis]

The key to shooting high key:



1. Get a car to photograph.


2. Purchase nuclear bomb.


3. Place camera in front of car.


4. Detonate



5. Snap photo


6. Win

[Genji-Sama]

The key to shooting high key:



1. Get a car to photograph.


2. Purchase nuclear bomb.


3. Place camera in front of car.


4. Detonate

[img]http://library.thinkquest.org/06aug/01330/nuclear_explosion.jpg[img]

5. Snap photo


6. Win

OMFG, So much awesomeness just came out of your keyboard. REPS

EDIT: I have to spread it around, but I will be coming back to rep you for this