January's photo contest topic was "interior". There were 8 entries. Please review them all before voting.

Photo 1


Photo 2


Photo 3


Photo 4


Photo 5


Photo 6


Photo 7


Photo 8

 

Nice job everyone. #1 got my vote. Great lighting.

Looks like a right hand drive with the imaged reversed.

 

Dang, I should have thought of the night lights shot, I've been meaning to take some, I just didn't think of it for "interior". I voted for it, rather than my own for once, though someone else has decided they liked mine.

 

#1 Great shot, like the B&W exterior effect - Mark

 

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oh boy do i have alot to learn. i thought it was just snowy out...

 

...or he has that MINI wound up tight and the speedo maxed out !!!

 

Its got to be #1. Nice job.

Honorable mention must got to 7 and 8 too. Nice pictures!

 

Wow... And I thought my R53 was lit nicely inside.

 

I think #1 just transported me into an alternate universe. WOW.

 

#1 is a great pic, but don't think thats a little fast to be driving on such a small road with out someone in the drivers seat...

 

That's exactly what I was thinking of posting for this months. That maxed out tach/speedometer is done when you do a test sequence on the lighting. Looks great with the snow reflections.

All the other pictures are very good as well!

 

right.... but the pic is mirrored... theyre still at 0

 

There is no snow in #1. He just made the outside black and white.

 

The Mini from down under photo indeed is very nice. Not sure why it needed to be mirrored though?

The test sequence looks a bit different as all the idiot lights get illuminated...


Scott Les' photo once again has fantastic light balancing that impresses me to no end. Well done!

 

Thanks Speednut, one day I will get there! Haha.

 

I whole heartedly agree. It is an excellent exposure.

Obviously the dynamic range is large. That said, the best part IMO, is that there are no heavy handed traces of HDR or multiple exposures.

 

Number 7 has awesome lighting

 

Exactly! It looks like it was done when the shutter was pressed as opposed to in post. Perhaps a bit of a G-ND filer applied in post, maybe (A pillars are my clue), but natural looking if so.

 

Does multiple exposures fall under your "Can't tell, won't ask" policy. I considered using multiple exposures (for my December pic), but didn't think it was within the rules. (So I did it in camera with multiple flashes instead.)

 

I have no problem with multiple exposures. That is a photographic technique.

What I do (personally) have issues with is heavy handed HDR and multiple exposures that are obvious photoshop editing jobs.

 

Hehe, believe it or not that shot was 100% from the camera. I can give you the raw image if you don't believe it. I try to get it the way I want it out of the box. I think it is much more challenging to get it right the first shot rather than in post processing.

 

Whew! I can say something now! I gather comments are meant to be anonymous while voting is going on, and an Aussie comment would obviously match the right-hand-drive MINI.

I flipped the image to be less identifiable, and that worked really well - not! It follows that the instruments are just at zero. But I did switch on the cruise and rear fog light to add some lights.

No snow - it's mid-summer here.

The lighting is just the standard R56 mood lighting, turned up full. I have Hella 1000 spread-beam lights which lit the exterior right around to the side of the car, which I think helped. I also had the advantage of cream color-line and light grey doors which light up better than black.

It's a single image. I made one copy for the exterior, mainly just to dim it (a lot, surprisingly) to match the interior. I had a casual thought to make it B&W and instantly liked it better that way. And I made another copy just for the 2 round instrument dials - again, to dim them to match the rest of the interior.

I liked Photo #7, and particularly the way the wide-angle lens curved the windscreen. I was disappointed how square the screen looked in my photo, like some car from the 1930s! (My photo was from the trunk.) I also liked the concept in Photo #2 and thought it well-executed.

Thanks for the compliments and the votes. I'm glad you liked the pic. I haven't had even a single vote for my previous efforts, so this is pretty amazing! Thanks.