The SECRET to Professional CAR PHOTOGRAPHY

As long as this photo took to put together, it was super satisfying. Would you try this?

Way to complex

Great video! You didn’t talk about the polarizer you had on the lens.

Great work. Thank you for sharing the photoshop tutorial. May I suggest shooting with multiple strobes to speed up post? Just a thought.

Why not just shoot one shot w/ a big Chimera softbox then edit in LR & PS - the final product would look much better.

Great video Lizzie, thanks for making it

Not to be mean or anything but honestly the final result just looks very weird and artificial to me.

Can you do a video on sony a7iii settings for car photography please?

Absolutely amazing work Lizzie. Did you use a polarizer on your lens though and does it particularly help with the opaque effect on the car windows?

lizzie no disrespect to ur man if you got one. but u deff one good looking photographer

Very helpful and informative. Thanks for the information.

wanted to stop by and say thank you!

Beautiful work Lizzie!

To be fairly honest I find the only two useful tools I need to shoot a car in the outdoors are a tripod and a CPL filter. Adding lights really just complicate things and takes more time to setup. I tend to bracket my shots from dark to bright and in photoshop I just layer the photos and brush in what I want and leave out the rest. I can work much quicker without a light and produce stunning images BUT if it works for you, go for it. Lovely photos by the way.

Thanks for this. So, maybe you can talk about strobes in a future video? Will a 100w battery powered strobe work? Especially in the darker areas or time of day?

I love MPB.

Noo way hahaha
You've also been shooting for Polestar the last Weeks!
Iv'e also coming up with a video of this shoot. We also shot a multilayer bucket shot haha.

have you heard about exposure bracketing ?

Great to see some strobe photography in the car photography space! Fun tutorial!

you're my sweet little pumpkin.

I definitely want to give this a try. Also is it crazy that I am tempted to fly in for Buffer just so I can get my annual Chris & Lizzie selfie? 😂 Well it hasn't been annual since pre covid days LOL.

Very nice end result, but the technic is seriously overly complex, stacking the images and then changing the blend mode literally can do more than half the work for you and makes the masking so much easier and also provides smoother transitions between all the images.

237k subscribers and still can't be bothered to rake the stickers off her laptop. lol

Bro what about lighten blend mode

Hi Lizzie. Great video. Was wondering what kind of laptop you are using to edit the photo? Thanks.

Nice video. Thank you!

Thank you. If I could make a suggestion, it would be to go a bit slower. I'm proficient with portrait photography and photoshop, but not with the car equivalent. I'd love to see you describe which parts of the lights you were masking in and out and why. In the companion car shoot video it'd be cool if you discuss the point light source and how that works with the contours of the car panel (I'm assuming you don't want to see the light itself in the panel, so understanding the shooting angles would be great too). This may be obvious to a car photography enthusiast, but not so much for a newbie like myself. Thanks for sharing your knowledge

Can you link the godox gear that you’re using?

Why limiting file size and using jpgs for your export? You’re already losing detail at the first step. Would recommend psd/tiff and adobe 1998 for the color space at minimum. Prophoto rgb and 16 bit at maximum

Great video and the final image was excellent. Thank you for sharing your process.

Lizzie, great video

I've light painted cars years ago and really enjoyed it. Been shooting natural light for photos and bringing in lights occasionally for feature car videos. Looking into getting a strobe here soon! Good video to see and kick the ambition in for me!

Great video! What phone application did you use for adding the finale touches?

I think your MPB link is broken FYI :) awesome video BTW :)

Which laptop are you using?

I have a car shoot coming up, this was amazing knowledge. Thank you

was this uploaded again? like removed and uploaded again

girly, the mbp link isnt working fyi

Mpb link is wrong

Hey Lizzie . Once again you are everything

All that for so little,

Great photo but eh 😐

Technically brilliant, but the final image while OK and proved a point educationally, but didn’t stir my soul. I think there may be a positive point to discuss with this, sometimes the car / object isn’t jaw dropping, and sometimes you’re hamstrung when it comes to locations, so how do you create a great shot, or even a usable shot as a professional

Save a keybind and hold alt while you click the layer mask button, it will start inverted

Hey Lizzie - Your link to mpb doesn't seem to be working

Next up, a driving car with shutterdrag and strobes.

Great tips, I never knew so much went into car photography.

i was like wait a minute didn't I watch this couple days ago? xD. you added the editing part in this. :D

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First 🤙🏾 great tips!