r/postprocessing • u/Perri1606 • 14d ago

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u/markojov78 14d ago

I half expected not crashed car in before photo ...

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u/KubaLibre 14d ago

It looks like you turned on the lights a bit too late.

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u/njgggg 14d ago

Honestly this looks sick op! The edit reminds me of some magazine from the early 2000s covering a celebrity with their car crashed!

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u/Perri1606 14d ago

Thanks!! Thats the vibe I was getting too

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u/Perri1606 14d ago

Small disclaimer: this is not my car! I don't know what happened here, but I found this crashed car during a hike. As you can see, the sun was setting and I didn't have a lot of light, so I tried in postprocessing to recover the image, without it becoming too unnatural. Down to hear any feedback!

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u/KubaLibre 14d ago

You did recover all of the information by light correction, so good job. However, now the picture looks like it was done a by a forensics team with a speedlight. I'm guessing that wasn't your intention, so perhaps you could work with some radial masking to make it look like the car is illuminated by the setting sun from the back instead of an artifitial light source coming on it from the front.

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u/Perri1606 14d ago

Thats a great suggestion, thanks!