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 11/23/2005 11:41:50 AM · #1
I've been asked by a client to produce some photographs of their police cruiser. They pointed me at the following site and said that they were "very excited" by this picture:

//www.patrolpower.com/

I've looked closely at this image and I can't decide if it's a genuine shot, or a Photoshop composite. The front light is so well focused and "stable" that I have trouble believing it was a single shot.

However the lighting on the car matches the surrounding so well that I have difficulty believing it's a composite - it looks like a lot of photoshop work.

Any thoughts?

Thanks,
Steve
 11/23/2005 11:43:49 AM · #2
Try //www.graphics.com

I'm sure there is some help there...
 11/23/2005 11:44:10 AM · #3
I would have to say they did a technique similar to this tutorial...
How'd they do that

Pretty cool but you won't find me hanging my camera off the car.

good luck
 11/23/2005 11:44:48 AM · #4
If both shots were taken at the same time or at least under the same lighting conditions then it could be a composite. That was my first guess since the lights show signs of motion (camera shake) but the car is sharp.
 11/23/2005 11:50:56 AM · #5
Originally posted by cpanaioti:
...the lights show signs of motion (camera shake) but the car is sharp.

That's because when the camera is rigged to the front of the car tightly, it doesn't move at all in relation to the car, only in relation to everything away from the car.
 11/23/2005 11:51:49 AM · #6
My guess is that they used a rig connected to the front frame of the car and ad the camera qattched so the camera and car moving at same pace
 11/23/2005 11:52:39 AM · #7
I would guess that the camera support is mounted to the bumper. It would not have to be a composite to get camera shake on the bg, that will happen from the cars suspension.


11/23/2005 11:54:03 AM · #8
Which way you do it will depend on how comfortable you feel attaching your camera to the car.
 11/23/2005 11:54:39 AM · #9
Originally posted by sabphoto:
I would have to say they did a technique similar to this tutorial...
How'd they do that

Pretty cool but you won't find me hanging my camera off the car.

good luck


Yep, I agree. Look at the strobes on the car. They are all "lit". This leads me to believe it's a long exposure. The car probably wasn't moving very fast and wouldn't need to move very far to acheive this effect. Tripod mounted on front of car with remote release. Pretty straight forward stuff.
 11/23/2005 11:56:11 AM · #10
Originally posted by cpanaioti:
Which way you do it will depend on how comfortable you feel attaching your camera to the car.


True, what you can't see in my picture is my wife telling me if the camera falls off I'm not getting another one!
 11/23/2005 12:07:47 PM · #11
If you don't feel comfortable rigging your camera to the car, another trick you can do is pull the car using another car, and shoot it from there. You can safely rig the camera inside the truck of the other car, or better yet, get inside the trunk yourself ;-) Or shoot through the side windows. You don't have to go really fast. Just use a slow shutter speed, and if the lights are too bright for that, use a strong ND filter.

Take care.
 11/23/2005 12:14:33 PM · #12
I did this one just recently for the shutter speed challenge. (there's a tutorial on how to do this linked in this thread).
Just wanted to say, it wasn't too hard, and it sure wasn't as exciting in terms of damaging the camera.
One thing to make sure you do is not to drive fast - it it not necessary. Also, try and find a stretch of a road that has minimal bumps and holes, as that would cause some unwanted shake, no matter how tight you put the whole thing together.
I know that I'll be doing this again, as I wasn't too happy with this one. Night time also adds drama to the photo.

11/23/2005 01:40:04 PM · #13
That first pic looks like cgi anyways. lol
 11/23/2005 01:54:48 PM · #14
Originally posted by shobley:
I've been asked by a client to produce some photographs of their police cruiser. They pointed me at the following site and said that they were "very excited" by this picture:

//www.patrolpower.com/

I've looked closely at this image and I can't decide if it's a genuine shot, or a Photoshop composite. The front light is so well focused and "stable" that I have trouble believing it was a single shot.

However the lighting on the car matches the surrounding so well that I have difficulty believing it's a composite - it looks like a lot of photoshop work.

Any thoughts?

Thanks,
Steve


I'd make sure your camera is insured.

The exposure part is not so hard.


11/24/2005 07:55:00 AM · #15
You could try to do a similar shot to the one in the link on a flatbed towtruck. That is if your brave enough to stand on it while its moving. I'd suggest sitting in the back of a pickup truck and shooting the cruiser as its coming up towards you or pacing you (which by the way is how I believe that shot was done).
 11/24/2005 08:06:31 AM · #16
When I first looked at the image, the first thing that came to mind was the use of the motion blur filter with masks in PS. Someone skilled enough with PS could take a photo of a stationary car like that and make it seem to be speeding along. However, on closer inspection, there seem to be some parts of the image that are not uniformly blurred, pointing to a slow shutter shot of a moving vehicle. The sharpness of the car seems to indicate that the cam was mounted to the car. They couldn't have been rolling that fast with the headlights off though. Having them on would most likely have ruined the shot.
 11/24/2005 09:33:05 AM · #17
It looks to me as if it was shot in a parking garage, maybe, underneath some structure for sure. You can see the overhead flourescents reflecting, and you can see supports/pillars/door openings in the BG.

Robt.
 11/24/2005 09:37:36 AM · #18
I agree tht this is clearly done by rigging the camera of the front of the car; all the reflections are right, and it's really hard to fake the kind of light trailing you get when you do this.
It looks like it was shot with a fisheye lens, or possibly a very wide angle rectilinear; in any case, the FoV looks to be about 100 degrees or so. Prolly shot at f/8 or smaller aperture with focus set for the hyperfocal distance, which is just a couple feet at those focal lengths.
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