{"id":13020,"date":"2010-10-24T23:27:09","date_gmt":"2010-10-25T06:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/?p=13020"},"modified":"2013-03-03T22:04:41","modified_gmt":"2013-03-04T05:04:41","slug":"custom-car-photography-hdr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/custom-car-photography-hdr\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Custom Car Photos &#8211; Verp or Cool?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mr_social_sharing_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t<!-- Social Sharing Toolkit v2.2 --><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.myrideisme.com%2FBlog%2Fcustom-car-photography-hdr%2F&amp;media=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.myrideisme.com%2FBlog%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2010%2F10%2F1956-Buick-Special-custom-HDR.jpg&amp;description=3+Custom+Car+Photos+%E2%80%93+Verp+or+Cool%3F\" class=\"pin-it-button\" count-layout=\"none\" rel=\"lightbox[13020]\"><img border=\"0\" src=\"\/\/assets.pinterest.com\/images\/PinExt.png\" title=\"Pin It\" \/><\/a><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><fb:share-button type=\"button_count\" href=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/custom-car-photography-hdr\/\"><\/fb:share-button><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"horizontal\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/custom-car-photography-hdr\/\" data-via=\"myrideisme\" data-text=\"3 Custom Car Photos \u2013 Verp or Cool?\"><\/a><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><div class=\"g-plusone\" data-size=\"medium\" data-annotation=\"none\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/custom-car-photography-hdr\/\"><\/div><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><a class=\"mr_social_share_email\" href=\"mailto:?subject=3 Custom Car Photos \u2013 Verp or Cool?&amp;body=https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/custom-car-photography-hdr\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-sharing-toolkit\/images\/icons_small\/email.png\" class=\"nopin\" alt=\"Email\" title=\"Email\"\/><span class=\"mr_small_icon\">Email<\/span><\/a><\/a><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"linksalpha_button linksalpha_link\" href=\"\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/social\/mobile\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/custom-car-photography-hdr\/\" data-text=\"3 Custom Car Photos \u2013 Verp or Cool?\" data-desc=\"Custom Car Photography - HDR Special Ed's 1956 Buick Special shot at the Mesa Cruise - 10\/24\/2010 (click on shot to zoom!) What's HDR? In case you forgot, my friend Alan wrote a great story about \"High Dynamic Range\" or HDR. What it is, how he does it and a few resulting shots.\u00a0 Alan's Car\" data-image=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/1956-Buick-Special-custom-HDR.jpg\" data-button=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img src=\"\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/images\/social_share_button.png\" alt=\"Share\" class=\"linksalpha_image\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/scripts\/loader_iconbox.js?v=2.4\"><\/script><\/span><\/div><h3>Custom Car Photography &#8211; HDR<\/h3>\n<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/1956-Buick-Special-custom-HDR.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[13020]\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13022\" style=\"border: 2px solid black; margin: 4px;\" title=\"1956 Buick Special custom edited with HDR\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/1956-Buick-Special-custom-HDR.jpg\" alt=\"1956 Buick Special, custom car, mesa cruise, hdr\" width=\"575\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/1956-Buick-Special-custom-HDR.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/1956-Buick-Special-custom-HDR-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/1956-Buick-Special-custom-HDR-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/1956-Buick-Special-custom-HDR-400x265.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nSpecial Ed&#8217;s 1956 Buick Special shot at the Mesa Cruise &#8211; 10\/24\/2010 <em>(click on shot to zoom!)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s HDR?<\/strong> In case you forgot, my friend Alan wrote a great story about &#8220;High Dynamic Range&#8221; or HDR. What it is, how he does it and a few resulting shots.\u00a0 Alan&#8217;s <a title=\"How to shoot Custom Cars in HDR\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/artistic-photo-effect-applied-to-hot-rods\/\" target=\"_blank\">Car Photography HDR<\/a>. Since Alan introduced me to HDR, I&#8217;ve always wanted to try it. I have a Nikon D90 that makes bracketing photographs easy so it was finally time to try it.<\/p>\n<p>How&#8217;d I do?<\/p>\n<p>For me, HDR either makes a <strong>WOW<\/strong> effect where I can&#8217;t imagine seeing something so beautiful, (just so you know, I have a soft-spot for sunsets) or the photo looks too digital, faked and generally induce a three-quarter verp.\u00a0 There&#8217;s certain amount of funky-artsy-cool in the shot in both cases, but obviously, I&#8217;m shooting for the WOW.\u00a0 Right now, I think I&#8217;m still over digitized, pretty noisy (in film it was &#8220;grainy&#8221;) and showing I&#8217;ve never done this before.\u00a0 Gonna work on it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>In my defense, I used the first <strong>free <\/strong>HDR software set I could find. It&#8217;s called &#8220;Luminance HDR&#8221; <a title=\"HDR Photo Editing Software\" href=\"http:\/\/qtpfsgui.sourceforge.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Download it here<\/a>. I&#8217;d say the software was fairly easy to use and I was able to combine it with &#8220;The Gimp&#8221; (the free photo editing software I use cause I don&#8217;t own and haven&#8217;t taken the time to learn Photoshop) with the help of a tutorial. <a title=\"Gimp and HDR Tutorial\" href=\"http:\/\/garmahis.com\/tutorials\/hdr-tutorial-free-software\/\" target=\"_blank\">Here&#8217;s that tutorial<\/a>. There are several options and selections to try (none with explanations about what they are!) and I was running through those trying to figure it out&#8230; then Luminance kept crashing. Crap. If I stick with this, I&#8217;ll buy one of the more well know HDR softwares out there.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/1964-Chevy-C10-Pickup-HDR2.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[13020]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13023\" style=\"border: 2px solid black; margin: 4px;\" title=\"1964 Chevy C10 Pickup edited HDR\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/1964-Chevy-C10-Pickup-HDR2.jpg\" alt=\"1964 Chevy, pickup, truck, C10, air bagged, 1960s chevy pickup trucks\" width=\"575\" height=\"382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/1964-Chevy-C10-Pickup-HDR2.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/1964-Chevy-C10-Pickup-HDR2-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/1964-Chevy-C10-Pickup-HDR2-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/1964-Chevy-C10-Pickup-HDR2-400x265.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 575px) 100vw, 575px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n(I love how you can see the lower control arms sitting on the ground!)<\/p>\n<p>Here are a couple other shots I took. These are both of my buddy Erock&#8217;s newly painted 1964 Chevy Pickup. Both of these are made with Luminance, but you can see the effects can vary quite a bit. If you dig it&#8230; let me know!<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/1964-Chevy-C10-Pickup-HDR.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[13020]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13021\" style=\"border: 2px solid black; margin: 4px;\" title=\"1964 Chevy C10 Pickup ready to cruise in HDR\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/1964-Chevy-C10-Pickup-HDR.jpg\" alt=\"1964 Chevy, truck, pickup, C10, air ride, 1960s chevy pickup trucks\" width=\"575\" height=\"382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/1964-Chevy-C10-Pickup-HDR.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/1964-Chevy-C10-Pickup-HDR-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/1964-Chevy-C10-Pickup-HDR-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/1964-Chevy-C10-Pickup-HDR-400x265.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 575px) 100vw, 575px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Hot rod and custom car community\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\">MyRideisMe.com<\/a> is always looking for photographers! If you&#8217;d like to share your work, please get in touch. Send email to <span class=\"oe_textdirection\">&#x6d;&#x6f;&#x63;&#x2e;&#x65;&#x6d;&#x73;&#x69;&#x65;&#x64;&#x69;&#x72;&#x79;&#x6d;<span class=\"oe_displaynone\">null<\/span>&#x40;&#x6e;&#x69;&#x6d;&#x64;&#x41;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d love to hear your comments!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"mr_social_sharing_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t<!-- Social Sharing Toolkit v2.2 --><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.myrideisme.com%2FBlog%2Fcustom-car-photography-hdr%2F&amp;media=&amp;description=3+Custom+Car+Photos+%E2%80%93+Verp+or+Cool%3F\" class=\"pin-it-button\" count-layout=\"none\"><img border=\"0\" src=\"\/\/assets.pinterest.com\/images\/PinExt.png\" title=\"Pin It\" \/><\/a><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><fb:share-button type=\"button_count\" href=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/custom-car-photography-hdr\/\"><\/fb:share-button><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"horizontal\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/custom-car-photography-hdr\/\" data-via=\"myrideisme\" data-text=\"3 Custom Car Photos \u2013 Verp or Cool?\"><\/a><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><div class=\"g-plusone\" data-size=\"medium\" data-annotation=\"none\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/custom-car-photography-hdr\/\"><\/div><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><a class=\"mr_social_share_email\" href=\"mailto:?subject=3 Custom Car Photos \u2013 Verp or Cool?&amp;body=https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/custom-car-photography-hdr\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-sharing-toolkit\/images\/icons_small\/email.png\" class=\"nopin\" alt=\"Email\" title=\"Email\"\/><span class=\"mr_small_icon\">Email<\/span><\/a><\/a><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"linksalpha_button linksalpha_link\" href=\"\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/social\/mobile\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/custom-car-photography-hdr\/\" data-text=\"3 Custom Car Photos \u2013 Verp or Cool?\" data-desc=\"Custom Car Photography - HDR Special Ed's 1956 Buick Special shot at the Mesa Cruise - 10\/24\/2010 (click on shot to zoom!) 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