I posted this image a while ago, but was never satisfied
with it. I just could not align it. The problem stems from hasty camera
work. There was also movement of two cars in the background. I recently
have been challenged by other difficult alignment problems, have learned a
lot from working with those images, so I set out to give this image a try
again. After failing to align the image with SPM's auto-align function, I
decided to try it manually in PS. My strategy was to align only the car,
and to let the chips fall where they may for the rest of the image.
Attached are images from this endeavour.
The first image is the unaligned pair. You can see the
moving cars and get a feeling of how hastily the shots were made. Too much
deviation, using differing distances. Almost an unworkable
pair.
The second image is the aligned pair which represents
over two days (off and on) working with the image. I think that it took
four (or so) steps to get it to this point. Notice how it was necessary to
distort the car. Look at how the shape of the pavement changed while doing
the car alignment. I also thought that it was interesting how the shape of
the image borders changed. Looking at it cross eyed, you can see that the
border took on a 3D characteristic all of its own. I thought that the
final angle of the aligned Auburn was not acceptable and attempted to
straighten it, using various rotation centers. That attempt only threw the
image back out of alignment, no matter what rotational center was used.
Then, after looking at the image for a while, I thought that the angle
could be used to convey an interesting effect. So, I went with
it.
The third image is the final product. Finished with
Photoshop, everything was easy after the alignment. The logo was taken off
the internet. The aligned Auburn was completely extracted from the
unaligned background, and gradients were used to replace the surrounding
area. Shadows were added, and the image was cropped in SPM to complete it.
There was not much that I could do about the asphalt reflection on the
bumper except to tone it down a bit and replace the reflected colors with
ones which would match the theme of the picture.
Thanks for looking.
Ray |
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