ideola

My guess is that's a red or yellow car that was shot in full sun by a color camera and digitally converted to B&W (or shot in B&W mode on a digicam).

To do a proper job of B&W photography, you might consider using some B&W filters while shooting in B&W mode. Converting a digital image to B&W is not the same thing as shooting a proper B&W image with proper filtration.

This image gives you an idea of the different effect of B&W filters (even though this particular image was digitally manipulated to simulate the effects)

Note the subtle differences in the dude's shirt (it's a green shirt) as well as the dramatic differences in skin tones.

Here's another example:
ORIGINAL:

DIGITALLY CONVERTED:



Here's a good primer on shooting B&W with digicams:
http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/filters.htm#bwdigi

A primer on how to use Channel Mixer in Photoshop, Elements, or GIMP to do proper color-to-B&W conversion:
http://www.city-data.com/forum/photo...-examples.html

For best results, color or B&W, shoot on a fully overcast day and frame the subject to exclude the sky. Use a circular polarizing filter to cut unwanted reflections in the paint and windows.

PorscheDude1

Thanks for the info, pretty interesting.

saifhaq

Thanks for the tips. I use photoshop, but I'm relativity new at it. Yes, it's a red car, but was shot on an overcast night with only one street light nearby. Shot the pic with with different shutter speeds and tried to combine them using the merge HDR function in PS and then convert it to B&W.
BTW, here is the same pic with an orange filter and the contrast bumped up...

ideola

Aha, interesting! The night lighting throwing the strong shadows fooled me into thinking it was shot with strong directional daylight...now that I look, I should have figured something was up due to the different directions of the shadows (look at the tree and vehicle at the top vs. the shadow caused by your car...)

Try the channel mixer in Photoshop, and try playing around with the red value...you want the red to look a little darker...then balance out the other two channels to achieve the 100% ratio between the three channels so that you don't oversaturate (over / under expose) any areas of the photo.

PeteL

Now that my car is finished....it's in the running for honorable mention:

ideola

Indeedy!

Ronin-951

Ship-Shape Swabby!

jtsporsche

Very clean car pete, love the modest interior upgrades.

Joe Anstett

Flip your rear plate frame upside-down and you're spot-on and spiffy

PeteL

Good idea! Wil try that. The rear plate bugs me.

J1NX3D

a pic from last year. the van was well-driven and has a toyota v8. its a common transplant down this way. infact if anything goes wrong with my engine i'd consider it!

PorscheDude1

A few recent pics

Cole

Faster than a van!!!!

(funny pic if you don't get the rest of the explaination)

J1NX3D

it wasnt easy to stay in front, even if it was just a van! 300+ hp with a competent driver: 'competent' 'driver' vs 160hp and my 2nd time on the track!

PorscheDude1

If you see this van, LOOK OUT.....!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6rmH...=youtube_gdata