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              john zhang retouched
              john zhang retouched
              August 31, 2012
              Jaron Schneider

              Watch a 6.5 Hour Car Retouch via Animated Gif

              Photographer and retoucher John Zhang takes some really wicked car photos. You should check those out at his website. As a member of our very active (and now very huge) Facebook Group, John uploaded one of his recent images for critique and examination. Needless to say, we loved the shot. John wanted to show how long a work of art takes, and so he also uploaded a sweet gif to show what 6.5 hours of retouching looks like.

              “It took around 6.5 hours total. Most of the time was just spent on “cleaning” the car since there were many distracting elements reflected onto it from the photo shoot location. People are always hesitant to believe that I actually do spend x amount of time on my photos.” I certainly believe it John!


              mclaren build Watch a 6.5 Hour Car Retouch via Animated Gif

               

              Final:


              621041 10101470509034964 1285422745 o 1024x681 Watch a 6.5 Hour Car Retouch via Animated Gif

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              • Hamza Aboufirass

                Really really awesome car and photo. By any chance what car is it?!!

              • nicholassmith

                He does a much better job removing reflections than I do.

              • http://www.facebook.com/ashkanahmadi2 Ashkan Ahmadi

                It’s definitely a McLaren. I don’t know which model though!

              • http://www.facebook.com/sasha.onyshchenko Sasha Onyshchenko

                Beautiful job. Is that a smoke added in the last step? Looks better without it IMHO. 

              • http://twitter.com/cq_ cq_

                there is only one model. MP4-12C

              • RichRicky

                It’s a McLaren MP4-12C

              • Hornk

                Seems to me a nice white scrim would have taken far less than 6 hours to set up, and would have taken care of the problem…

              • http://www.vinsonimages.com yamaha83

                 i was thinking the same thing! would love to learn how to do that!

              • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1306378264 Ryan Delos Reyes

                a lot of cloning was done here..gotta love photoshop

              • http://www.rlmorris.com Lee Morris

                fantastic job

              • http://www.1013mm.com/ John Zhang

                Only problem with that is that there was no assist on this shoot and it was a guerrilla type shoot that lasted 30mins. But to your point, I totally agreed and was thinking the exact same while editing.

              • http://www.1013mm.com/ John Zhang

                Thank you ALL very much! More to come soon :)

              • http://www.1013mm.com/ John Zhang

                 More brushing than cloning, but still a lot of cloning.

              • http://www.1013mm.com/ John Zhang

                 AKA… the fax machine. lol

              • http://twitter.com/ImKevinMiller Kevin Miller

                Nicely done John!  Very impressive.  Thanks for sharing.

              • http://twitter.com/ImKevinMiller Kevin Miller

                Nicely done John!  Very impressive.  Thanks for sharing.

              • http://www.facebook.com/G.Watson Gary Watson

                very nice

              • http://twitter.com/georgesocka George Socka

                Nice photoshopgraphy

              • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=558132852 Jeff Nguyen

                I’ve been a huge fan of Johns work and really look up to him! Great job

              • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=558132852 Jeff Nguyen

                I’ve been a huge fan of Johns work and really look up to him! Great job

              • http://twitter.com/richardsonad richardsonad

                someone should tell this guy about YouTube

              • http://www.facebook.com/people/Nam-Phan/1323387305 Nam Phan

                it’s all in the instagram filters brah!

              • http://www.facebook.com/stuart.macaulay.7 Stuart MacAulay

                How did you create the matte paint look on the car?  Looks great.
                My only criticism is the smoke at the back of the car was unnecessary, if the back tires looked like they were spinning the smoke would make more sense.

              • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=603083538 Edgar González

                That guy has a lot of talent with the retouch, i dont have that… But i’ve got talent to get a better picture since the moment i shot it :)

              • http://www.facebook.com/matthew.neumann Matthew Neumann

                Maybe you should grow the talent of reading too.  Then you might realize that it was a very quick shoot with minimal gear and no assistants, hence most of the work being done in post.  

              • http://www.facebook.com/matthew.neumann Matthew Neumann

                so how’d this one turn out?  Looks like a gem. 

                https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/526171_10152053966523539_2131407434_n.jpg

              • http://twitter.com/PlantPhoto Simon Plant

                This might be removed as spam but I have a video on car retouching called Jaguar XK Photoshop Car Photography Tutorial” Compositing A New Environment which covers exactly this kind of retouching.
                http://tinyurl.com/bu6l6c3 Cheers, Simon

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