The purpose of the toy car shoot was to present a realistic looking Image of a car, using everything but a real car. In today’s blog I will be discussing the details of how we brought this project to life and utilized our equipment and Photoshop software to the best of our abilities.

As you can tell from the video our team is quite big along, of course, my professor Brian Stevens was the set manager for the photo shoot. The equipment we use is important, Brian stressed to things use such as backdrops, softboxes, tiny fake trees, set a table, and a DLSR camera to do the shoot.

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The shooting process of the toy car was definitely a two person job, well in the middle shooting there was always a presence behind the camera and in front. You need to have golden communication between both people explaining that the trees were crooked and needed to be centered so that you can capture a realistic image.

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Now I know what you’re probably thinking of editing a toy car and Photoshop doesn’t exactly seem like the easiest thing to do, well you’re not wrong but it does help to know that with whites and shadows and other elements of lighting it is best to edit and Camron RAW first. Then proceed to fix details such as discoloration in the tires and snowfall in a Photoshop document.

As the person who saw this image before it was brought into Photoshop, I can tell you that this shoot was an absolute success. It was interesting to see all of us come together with different backgrounds of knowledge and skills, to work as a team to make this photoshoot happen.