Re: Is this a real picture or CGI?

"tony cooper" <tony_cooper213@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> On Wed, 7 May 2008 20:30:50 -0700 (PDT), gpsman
> <gpsman@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>>On May 7, 5:51 pm, Doc <docsavag...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>> Looks to me either like CGI or extremely enhanced by CGI.
>>
>>Seems like good guesses.
>>
>>> Seems to
>>> have a sort of "plasic" patina to it. Is an actual photo of a pristine
>>> new car not good enough anymore?
>>
>>No, and it never has been.  Photo manipulation is as old as
>>photography itself, both post and pre-production.  Nature of the
>>beast, I'm afraid.
>
> A older photographer I talked to told me that he used to have cars
> wiped down with kerosene before shooting them for car ads.  It gave
> the surface a "wet look".
>
>

Plus, if you didn't have enough light in the studio, you could just strike
a 
match!