Not that I know much about classic cars, but I do love looking at them. There’s a museum near us called The Blackhawk Museum where we took some visiting relatives the other day. The museum was founded by Ken Behring, who used to own the Seattle Seahawks, and it has an amazing collection of classic cars.
This car is a Ford GT40, driven in the 24H of LeMans by Sutcliffe and Spoerry, 1966. Kinda cool eh?
I processed it in Nik HDR and then Nik Color Efex with a splash of Photoshop CC here and there. I really didn’t want to overdo it but wanted to make everything stand out a bit more. FYI…this was bracketed on my camera and THEN processed as an HDR. Just to clarify. 🙂
Classic Car at Blackhawk Museum
Laura Macky Photography 
July 3, 2014 at 8:10 am
This is great Laura! Nice perspective. Bravo!
July 3, 2014 at 10:01 am
Thank you so much Dan. 🙂
July 3, 2014 at 10:21 am
🙂
July 3, 2014 at 8:19 am
Beautiful processing on a beautiful car.
July 3, 2014 at 10:01 am
Thank you!
July 3, 2014 at 9:18 am
Excellent capture….I just love looking at unique cars
July 3, 2014 at 10:01 am
Thank you 🙂 I love it too.. I have more but haven’t processed them.
July 3, 2014 at 9:23 am
Good job Laura, looks like you had it in a studio all to yourself. Glad for a view of this classic.
July 3, 2014 at 10:03 am
Thanks Robert. I have more of others not yet processed….but not as solitary as this one. I love classic cars!
July 3, 2014 at 9:51 am
You definitely, made it stand out. I’ll have to look up where this museum is located.
July 3, 2014 at 10:04 am
Thank you Tim. It’s in Blackhawk right next to Danville.
July 3, 2014 at 10:32 am
Bit of a girl racer then Laura….;0).
July 3, 2014 at 11:07 am
😀
July 3, 2014 at 11:34 am
I want one please…pleeeeeeze…
July 3, 2014 at 11:41 am
i knowwwww….I’d get a ticket for sure! haha
July 3, 2014 at 11:37 am
Interesting perspective, specially since it’s black all around the car.
July 3, 2014 at 11:44 am
It practically was like that too so I just made it even moreso. 🙂
July 3, 2014 at 11:46 am
Looks like you’re ready for product photography. 🙂
Great job!
July 3, 2014 at 11:47 am
haha thank you! I thought the car should be shown how I saw it…very crisp and beautiful lighting without going too HDR crazy.
July 3, 2014 at 11:51 am
I think you do very good with your hdr as it doesn’t look like hdr was applied to it. I find that with the D610 the dynamic range is so great on the RAW files that I don’t need to do hdr on the photos even though I know I could get better quality if I did hdr. It comes down more to how long it takes to process through hdr than not. I think I may do a post next week on how dynamic range may help when shooting in RAW. A photo I took recently of a sunset looks like there’s no way you could pull any details out from the shadows and I was even amazed that I was able to with the shot.
July 3, 2014 at 11:58 am
Thanks Justin. The photo was good as it was (in RAW of course) but as you said, the HDR made it so much more vivid because the dynamic range is broader, but I don’t like that gritty stuff so I try to avoid that as much as possible in my photos because I just don’t think it applies to what I’m doing. Sometimes it works just to apply it to a certain part of the photo too and mask out the other part. I love masking. lol
July 3, 2014 at 12:00 pm
When processing through Nik HDR, do you use bracketing images or a single image? Based on research i believe when using a single image is more considered tone mapping which a lot of hdr fanatics consider as a hack rather than a proper way of doing it. Technically though, I believe true hdr image is one done using a bracket of images as it is then using the correct exposure for the different areas to get more of an accurate representation of the those areas rather than a single one where not all the details may be available.
July 3, 2014 at 12:02 pm
Yes i bracketed this particular one and it’s why I chose it to process this way, although I’ve done tone mapping too. Also sometimes when in a pinch, I create 3 exposures in photoshop from one raw photo. That’s not the same as bracketed but I’ve found it works fairly nicely.
July 3, 2014 at 12:05 pm
I’ve done that too. Especially when conditions don’t allow for a nice bracketed shot due to wind, water, or other elements. But depending on who you are talking to you want to be careful on what you label as hdr and not hdr when doing that method as an hdr fanatic would tell you that is not hdr. lol.
I don’t think it maters either way as long as the result is what you want.
July 3, 2014 at 12:43 pm
Well, just like people say “i took this straight out of the camera” Whoop-dee-doo….so that means you don’t know how to photoshop, lol. I’m bad! But what I mean is that the result is all that counts. But this IS a bracketed photo (for anyone out there who is wondering lol!).
July 3, 2014 at 2:00 pm
Fabulous Laura!
This old classic could be a concept car right now… Not that I know anything about cars 😉
Love your pov here and the soft light touching the panels..and everything. Great shot!!
July 3, 2014 at 2:29 pm
It probably would be a concept car. I love going to car shows and the concept cars are always so strange looking. I’m glad you enjoyed the processing on this one! Thank you!
July 3, 2014 at 5:32 pm
I enjoyed it all Laura. 🙂
July 3, 2014 at 6:29 pm
ty :))))
July 3, 2014 at 10:08 pm
Yw 🙂
July 3, 2014 at 7:56 pm
what a sweet ride.
July 3, 2014 at 9:10 pm
Totally! Vrrrooom!
July 3, 2014 at 8:46 pm
Very cool image!
July 3, 2014 at 9:10 pm
Thank you Priya
July 3, 2014 at 9:42 pm
Stunning shot and processing.
July 3, 2014 at 10:08 pm
Thank you Simon, I appreciate it!
July 4, 2014 at 8:03 am
Such a beauty!
July 4, 2014 at 8:06 am
Thank you! Oh, you mean the car hahaha! Thank you Robyn 🙂
July 4, 2014 at 10:51 am
great fun! You captured it!! great angle!!
July 4, 2014 at 11:00 am
The car and the photograph!! 😉 Enjoy the day!
July 4, 2014 at 11:01 am
Thank you lol…you too!! 🙂
July 4, 2014 at 11:01 am
Thanks much! Fun place. 🙂
July 7, 2014 at 9:32 pm
That’s a great car and a fantastic shot, Laura!
July 7, 2014 at 10:01 pm
Thank you!
July 8, 2014 at 10:47 am
Beautiful one, I visited your Web site and you have marvelous collection, congratulations
July 8, 2014 at 12:18 pm
Thank you so much for the visit. I’m glad you liked the photo. 🙂
July 8, 2014 at 1:28 pm
I’m with you. I know nothing about them, but they call to me anyway.
July 8, 2014 at 3:23 pm
Nice!! There is something beautiful and artistic about cars .
August 2, 2014 at 9:11 pm
I’m not an expert either but my husband knows all of them. We love bringing the family to classic car shows – it is like a history lesson only a lot more fun.
August 3, 2014 at 7:05 am
Exactly! 🙂 I loved reading the signs that gave a bit of history of them….I just couldn’t remember it haha.