When you composite photographs, the lighting has to match or else the resulting image won’t be believable. That’s why I replaced the original museum interior behind this 1938 Talbot-Lago T-150C-SS Teardrop Coupe with a twilight skyline shot (of Detroit). The incandescent lighting on the car had to match artificial lighting in the new background. I also replaced the floor material because the museum flooring wasn’t conducive to this image. To meticulously select the car from the background, I used the pen tool in combination with a Wacom tablet and worked at 300%. This car sold a few years ago for $4.6 million, and I photographed it as part of a show called ‘Art Deco Cars’ in the Frist Museum in Nashville, Tennessee. The camera settings for the picture of the car were 1/50, f/5, 2000 ISO, and I hand held the Canon 5D Mark II (this was taken in 2013) because no tripods were allowed in the museum.
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