"Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To" (murdersofa)
02/11/2019 at 09:30 • Filed to: None
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"Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To" (murdersofa)
02/11/2019 at 09:30 • Filed to: None | 12
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Washed the LS400 and lightpainted it last night. Only the second time I’ve done a not-dark car so I’m very happy with how it came out. Hopefully today I’ll have time to put some Lexol on the leather, clean the instrument cluster, get some weird sticky residue off the center console wood, and give the whole interior a nice fresh smell.
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> Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
02/11/2019 at 09:38 |
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Handsome Lexus!
sm70- why not Duesenberg?
> Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
02/11/2019 at 09:45 |
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Great picture, gorgeous car!
KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time
> Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
02/11/2019 at 09:46 |
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Nice shot. Could have been in the promo material back in the day.
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Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
> KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time
02/11/2019 at 09:57 |
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It is amusing how the bar keeps moving with photography as technology advances.
Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
> Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
02/13/2019 at 14:12 |
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...and lightpainted it last night.
What does this entail?
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Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
> Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
02/13/2019 at 14:14 |
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It does and it doesn’t. The overall quality of photos rises as cell phone cameras get better, but skill in composition
and planning for light is still as clueless as ever.
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Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
> Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
02/13/2019 at 16:09 |
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basically “painting” the car with a special flashlight. ~
10 second exposures while walking back and forth along the car at various angles to light it up with a
LED panels, then compositing the resulting 10 or 15 pictures together in Photoshop.
Also individual photos for the lights, etc. so I can make sure things look “right”. End-to-end this one shot took about 3 hours.
Here’s a couple unedited shots from the process:
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Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
> Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
02/13/2019 at 16:27 |
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Do you do this as layers and then flatten the image in the end?
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Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
> Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
02/13/2019 at 16:56 |
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Yup. I generally have a “base” layer and the rest are all “lighten” mode. I also mask out just the car on the lightpaint layers so I don’t get weird flares/light spillage/shadows on my background layer. No mask on the layers for the headlights exposures so they can flare realistically. Sometimes I’ll also light up the background.
This one I swept my light across the wall behind the car.
This one I used a white light shone on each pillar then used “colorize” on the whole layer in photoshop to re-color the pillar and any reflections from the light (like the little bit of green you can see in the rear window).
There’s a ton of tutorials on this and the really cool thing is you can get amazing results with any crap camera that can do a 10 second-ish exposure, a tripod, and a light. I use a Yongnuo brand LED panel off Amazon (about $120) but I have had passable results with a $5 walmart flashlight as well:
(this was from before I discovered the glory of masking)
A youtube search for light painting tutorials reveals an absolute wealth of information.