Some of you are gonna hate this :D

[dpSparhawk]

..but I decided to do an OTT HDR on the Aston. Someone wants one in a need for speed style result. It's as close as I could get any more and I got all sorts of weird stuff in the image.

[Brock]

Looks very impressive. You could almost walk around it.

[mmg]

cracking image mate, how did you get the blur through the car windows? was it as shot or photoshopped?

[willp2003]

i quite like it - good effort

[DJAd]

That's fucking cool.

[Bilbo_baggin]

Great PP mate. Must have took a few minutes last night that...


Bilbo.

[dpSparhawk]

Hehe, thanks guys

The blurring was done using the same method as in my comp entry for last month. I very carefully selected the car using the lassoo tool. Refined the edges adding a bit of feathering and smoothing. Then I inverted the selection and applied a gaussian blur to the background.

To get it blurred through the windscreen, I used the same method however this time I blurred the selection within the windscreen area and applied gaussian blurring again albeit less of it to get it similar to the background.

With regards to the HDR, I created the obligatory +2 and -2 ev exposures and merged them in Dynamic Photo HDR, applied some tonemapping, tweaked and exported.=
Then it was back into PS for a little more sharpening and selective noise reduction (created slightly be the HDR)

Whole process took about 25 minutes

[liveseytowers]

That looks ace mate, you can do loads with PS if you know what you are doing!

[peterc4]

a bit to much for me mate, nice work though

[Goldberg]

Love it but 1 thing digging me is the number plate... It just doesn't seem right in the photo... Would have been better without one but that's not your fault lol

[dpSparhawk]

a bit to much for me mate, nice work though

hehe, hence the title of the post ..

I know you're not a big fan of HDR Pete however thanks for the compliment though

[ming]

as mr.burns would say Excellent!

[neo2810]

Just up my street... Great work on that mate....

[TheFincher]

I think that's pretty sweet mate.............. Well done

[B B Leo]

love it m8 and love the norn iron plates

[dpSparhawk]

Cheers guys

[devs]

Nice snap mate - well done. It really pops!

[Booyakasha]

very nice work.