D600 dynamic range at work here - impossible shot with film. Freshly replaced shutter at 12,600k clicks, no oil after a 700 frame day at Road America. It passes the new shutter test with flaming colors
pburke wrote:
D600 dynamic range at work here - impossible shot with film. Freshly replaced shutter at 12,600k clicks, no oil after a 700 frame day at Road America. It passes the new shutter test with flaming colors
Amazing shot! Stuff like this makes me want to sell all my Canon gear.
Two suggestions, check the color tint of the car body that isn't lit by flames. Seems a little pink/magenta to me for a Ferarri unless that is the actual color of the car. Secondly the road and rumble strips on the left feel a little "overcooked" to me, I would darken and take out some contrast.
The blue sky above the car probably has something to do with the hint of magenta in it. It's hard to pull up the shadows and not have the colors creep a little. I know what you mean and I am probably going to edit that image a few more times before I like it. I think we are just too used to shadows not having any color detail in it and just remaining black or near black that it takes some second looks at times to tone down these "HDR effects"
The red of this car is so super saturated it is quite difficult to get right even without shade being a factor. Here's one more in total shade, much different light from the above image, but with similar issues of a "pink/magenta" hue in the res, even though the white balance is identical under which other cars looked just fine:
Out in the open with light behind me, it was a different story, just fighting the massive saturation of that red - note how different the rear fenders and top of the car body reflect color from the sky compared to the more concave nose shape. Now I should just blame all this on the 25 year old lens I am using, but that would be too easy
