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Not Photoshopped! No Really!

October 11th, 2010 | Author: Ben Dean

Let me just start by saying that I hate overcast days. And a very overcast day is what I found when I turned up at Brands Hatch race circuit a few months ago. Since I was there pretty much just to shoot stuff for my own portfolio I thought I would go a little nuts and try some long exposure, high blur shots. Knowing up-front that the failure rate of my shots were going to be very high I snapped away like a crazy person figuring I might get something decent somewhere down the line.

- A few months later -

Finally got around to looking at the photos that I took and sure enough a large percentage of them were trash. Apart from a select few.

And here is my favorite, click on the thumb to see a full sized version.

This is a shot of a Chevron B16 that I snapped as it roared past me down the back straight of the Brands Hatch GP track. I honestly don’t know how I got it that sharp considering the car is probably doing the best part of 130mph and the shutter speed was only 1/25th of a second! I haven’t done any “shop” work on this photo at all. All I have done is colour grade it and then crop it to the rather insane aspect ratio you see here.

Enjoy!

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Its not easy being green…

August 7th, 2010 | Author: Ben Dean

Or so they say,

I spotted this Lime Green Audi R8 at Brands Hatch in the car park and literally had to take a photo of it. I used Lightroom 2.0 to make the green of the car pop somewhat and desaturate the rest of the colours to accentuate the greenness (is that a word?).