All Posts Tagged Tag: ‘HDR’
James Bond SPECTRE CX-75 shoot – when in Rome…
Straight after returning from the Sahara Press Ad Road Trip, it was great to be asked to shoot at The Pantheon with Spark 44 & Jaguar for the eagerly anticipated new Bond film ‘SPECTRE ‘ released on 26th October. (Tickets to see it on release day are sorted already courtesy of my teenage kids!) It was […]
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Pure Electric Performance – the Detroit Electric SP:01
You may remember a few months ago I had a shoot in the city creating backplates & HDRs for a top secret car, yet to be released. To jog your memory, we worked into the night on cranes, while a cute kid played with the cube on the cobbled street? Now I can finally unveil it, as the […]
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Hi Ho Savannah Lining – BTS on a CGI shoot
If you’ve ever thought that photography for CGI is done with a single shot my latest ‘adventure’ will show you otherwise. This week I’ve been shooting the backgrounds and HDRs for a top secret car that is not even off the production line yet! It may seem a little premature but those of you who […]
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Real Men Need Reliable Tools that Don’t Let Them Down
You’ll remember a couple of months back I made a visit to the North Sea, a visit that was not to be taken lightly. (See here). I trained intensively to be allowed into this harsh environment where waves would crash with a double decker force and the wind chill would freeze the sweat on your […]
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Lights, Camera, Time-lapse – Hello Yellow MG3
I’ve just finished a pretty intensive gig with an MG with multiple personalities. Just to give you a scope of the project from design data to end imagery: – Shoot 5 backplates and light domes then composite CGI cars into them. – Configurator combinations comprising: 10 colours, 10 graphic packs, 4 trim levels, 3 angles, […]
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Lamborghini Aventador gunning the hill at Shelsley Walsh
A little automotive CGI project from end of last year featured on AIR-CGI. People like fast cars! The following video demonstrates what it takes to combine a fast CG car – in this case a Lamborghini Aventador – together with a photographic backplate and HDR to create a striking image. The backplate was taken at […]
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Giving Cars Some Stick Since the Nineties
Since the nineties I’ve had one piece of kit that has helped me capture exactly what I need for clients such as Bentley, Peugeot and Subaru. To the passer by this kit looks like an extendable thick stick, something fire-fighters might use to rescue a cat from a tree, but to me, it’s a trusty […]
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The Renault Sandero Stepway – to Russia with gloves
Readers of these pages know by now that my philosophy is to shoot anything that moves – and most things that don’t. Have camera will travel is the motto of all good photographers. Surely! Nevertheless, the harsh Russian winter with its -30 degrees C temperature is probably one of those locations I tend to avoid […]
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My big Interview in Professional Photographer Magazine: True Lies, Part 2
Before CGI A photographer at heart, Nigel’s career started in London where he looked for the biggest photographers he could find doing location photography and tried to get work experience with them. “There were loads of people I tried to get work with at the time such as Alan Brooking, who did the iconic 1970s […]
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Video tutorial and free HDR and backplate from award winning Mars Ice Cream shoot
This is a video tutorial about how to make an HDR for image-based lighting for CGI. It comprises the equipment and the working methods I used to create my award winning Mars Ice Cream photo. I want to demonstrate how simple it can be create HDRs for Image based lighting . It’s not a complex […]
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