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Anyone else use DigitalRetention.com auto photography??

Discussion in 'Chicago' started by Michael RPM, Oct 12, 2006.

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  1. Michael RPM

    Michael RPM Formula Junior

    Apr 10, 2002
    828
    Oak Brook, IL
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    Michael Wogronic
    I detailed a customers car for a shoot with Digital Retention and was talking to Ernie over there. He showed me a few of the cars he has shot and there are some excellent studio photographs! He has done a Stradale and a 355 Spyder (both F-chatters, I think) and I was thinking about having him shoot a few of my cars and motorcycles. The price seems more than reasonable for the great quality of pictures you get. Anybody else use them? It almost seems too good to be true!
     
  2. Mobius Entwine

    Mobius Entwine Karting

    Jun 9, 2005
    221
    Roscoe, IL
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    Tom
    #2 Mobius Entwine, Oct 12, 2006
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    I haven't done work with that studio, but the shots on his website [digitalretention.com] do look very nice.

    I am a commercial photographer. I have shot cars and motorcycles in studios and on location. I am shooting motorcycles next week in my client's warehouse. The images will be two pages wide, and will go into various magazines including RacerX, Motocross Action, etc. starting in the Feb. 07 issues.

    Not every photographer has the skill or equipment to shoot items as large and reflective as cars. Even more rare, is a studio that has the conditions that are optimized for shooting cars. The background, ceiling, walls, almost everything has to be clean to prevent unwanted reflections. The slick look that digital retention achieves requires all three (skill, equipment, studio), and I there aren't really that many photographers/studios that do this.

    If I were going to shoot a car in a studio, especially on white, with clean light, I would try to do it exactly like digital retention does it. He seems to have an ideal setup.

    (I would pass on the phony ground reflection into the image.)

    I don't mean to hijack a thread about somebody else's photography with my own work, and I'm not advertising for more work, but here's an example of a shot I did.
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  3. KTG

    KTG Formula Junior

    May 16, 2005
    820
    Chicago,IL
    I'm not much of a fan of white studio pictures! Especially when the add some strange ground reflections....I don't really understand them, I'm sure whatever car you own, the company has a picture very similar you could buy...? Unless its a custom made car or bike
     
  4. carlagio

    carlagio Formula Junior

    Jul 3, 2005
    483
    Chicagoland
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    Carla G.
    #4 carlagio, Oct 19, 2006
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