Just took a real close look at this. The part that gives the ps blurring away is....the tire treads!...clear as a bell!
Good job and you are not a charlatan.
this pic took some skill. i was looking at my shot from the same challenge and you made this comment:
Originally posted by redmoon:
great shot, brilliant conveyance of speed, and well done you for keeping the car in such pristine focus. must have been a right bugger to get right, or at least it would have been for me. 10.
the funny thing is, i feel the same way about your shot. it would have been a bugger to get the blurring looking real, and for me it was much easier to just pan.
on a side note. the reflection observation is a good one. i would have never noticed.
thanks for all the jolly and surprisingly helpful comments this past week. i think people generally have a love / hate / not really bothered with it approach to the shot. i must concede, it was stationery, and i had a fair amount of help with PS. the background was motion blurred, and the wheels were spin blurred, and that's about it as far as editting is concerned (tweaked curves and very gently mildy desatted the background to help the car stand out a bit better - black isn't a very photogenic colour for metal, i think). . the more observant of you noted the wing mirrors and the sharp reflection on the side of the car - points i've taken on board (from imagineer and others, for which i'm grateful and i think i've learned from). it isn't actually a race car, it's just a (very expensive, sexy and italian) road car. sorry if people thought it wwas a panning shot - and i hope you don't think i'm a charlatan - i do feel a bit guiltily dirty though...
1/100th of a sec is pretty fast. to get that much blur the car would have to be really moving. as an example take a look at this shot in the same challenge 1/120th . it's just a fraction faster and there is a lot less blur. however, we don't know how fast the race car was moving at the time (it could have been during a caution), or the distance from the car (being closer to the action would mean you have to pan quicker).
just the fact that people aren't sure if it is PS or real tells me that either way was done very well, and probably should have been top 10.
To Imagineer: The front of the car has some 'proof' of real panning, though i wonder how it all could be as sharp as this without a lot of help from PS.
Then again.. it's the result that counts in my opinion, so gave it a 10. Quite dissapointing to not see this in the top 10!
Lovely car. Blur is OK but looks like it's had some obvious PS help. The wing mirror appears to be in parking mode so I assume you spin-blurred the wheels. Subtlety is the key here - ensure that your selection is featherd by a pixel or two round the car body to avoid halos. I find it easier to motion blur an entire duplicate layer then mask in/out the areas that aren't wanted. This avoids seams and joins appearing.
You've done an excellent job with this picture! It's all about the Lambo... it jumps right out of the picture... and the backdrop whatever it was compliments the colors and shape of the car!
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