E36 M3 in the Arts District, LA

CC welcome!

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/EmP2​St

Be careful with colour-casts on paintwork, the car is silver, yet you can see pink, yellow, blue and green tinges in different areas of the car.

Some owner's don't mind it, but it's usually preferable to light the car, and then bring in the background/foreground as a separate image to make the car pop.

Yeah, I don't have any lights. This was a spontaneous shoot with just a few street lamps that were very yellow. I'll have to really retouch it in LR and PS. thanks for the advice!

Ah, well carry on then! Pick up a $20 LED worklight and give lightpainting a try, it's addictive!

JMG703 wrote in post #17956703
Yeah, I don't have any lights. This was a spontaneous shoot with just a few street lamps that were very yellow. I'll have to really retouch it in LR and PS. thanks for the advice!

It's an OK shot. When you can plan the shot, try shooting just at/before sunset. Look at the links in my Sig, and...

98kellrs wrote in post #17956530
Be careful with colour-casts on paintwork, the car is silver, yet you can see pink, yellow, blue and green tinges in different areas of the car.

Some owner's don't mind it, but it's usually preferable to light the car, and then bring in the background/foreground as a separate image to make the car pop.

He could also edit the photo in Lightroom twice. Once for the background and again for the car and then merge them using a mask in Photoshop I do it all the time. In lightroom just desaturate the colors that appear on the car, I wouldn't desaturate them completely, maybe to -75 at the most because then they can look monochrome which obviously you don't want either. -50 is usually the magic number in my opinion.

Thanks! Maybe some creative PSing of the sky in the background would add some atmosphere. It was very late at night. Thanks for the welcome!

BadAppleArts wrote in post #17957181
He could also edit the photo in Lightroom twice. Once for the background and again for the car and then merge them using a mask in Photoshop I do it all the time. In lightroom just desaturate the colors that appear on the car, I wouldn't desaturate them completely, maybe to -75 at the most because then they can look monochrome which obviously you don't want either. -50 is usually the magic number in my opinion.

98kellrs wrote in post #17956530
Be careful with colour-casts on paintwork, the car is silver, yet you can see pink, yellow, blue and green tinges in different areas of the car.

Some owner's don't mind it, but it's usually preferable to light the car, and then bring in the background/foreground as a separate image to make the car pop.

I actually already have a masked the car off in PS for the purposes of treating the car separate from the background. However, I liked the different colors on the car. Maybe it's a little too much. It was more of a mood I was going for. Thanks for the CC! I'm gong to do another edit of this one.

Yeah, I've found the cross-processed look hard to nail in automotive imagery.

The idea to process the photos in two ways, the background and the car, and then merge is right on. Simply fixing the color on the car will fix the image right up.