I stumbled across this earlier this morning while doing a quick trawl of some of my favourite photographers on Flickr and thought some might be interested.

This guy, Will Stern, is my favourtite automotive photographer at the moment (Sorry Jan...!). Ive always been incredibly impressed with how much post processing he does to achieve the great shots he puts out, but never really knew how he went about doing it all.

Then i found this little example hes put up on a photography forum.



Essentially, hes set up the tripod with the desired composition, then goes about taking numerous different shots moving his flashes around to light up every part of the car to avoid shadows and harsh reflections. Then jumps in to Photoshop, and starting with a base background shot (usually with only ambient lighting) goes about cutting "strips" off each shot, combining them, and smoothing them out with layer masks to achieve this...



Admittedly, this particular example comes out a little fake looking, probably because the lighting on the wall behind is so different to the car, but its very hard to fault a lot of his other shots.

For the more experienced photographers here, that all may be pretty obvious. But ive just started to experiment with blending different exposures and polarisation, so this is the next level. Figured some of the photography noobs like myself might find this interesting.

You can check out Will Sterns work at:

www.flickr.com/photos/360forged/
www.flickr.com/photos/Great_one/
www.flickr.com/photos/systemforged/

Time to get me some flashes i think.

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