A British classic.

The Triumph Stag is one of the all-time classic British cars. Whilst not quite as iconic as, say, the E-type Jag, it is still an instantly recognisable roadster that immediately puts certain images into your mind. When I was given this assignment, I knew I had to get something like that. Now, the stag in the picture belongs to my fiancee's stepfather, and he was more than happy to let me take some photos of it.



For this one, what I actually wanted to do was to make the background grayscale, and just have the bright yellow of the car itself stand out against that. Seems like Photoshop can't handle that idea, as you are unable to have a single layer in grayscale. If one is, all are. Oh well, no worries. So, instead, I chose to make the background as blurry and old looking as possible, whilst still trying to maintain some kind of hint of modern. By very carefully selecting all round the car, I was then able to put it into a layer all of its own. Then, I went back to the original background layer, and applied gaussian blur filter. This gave a nice effect, but it wasn't quite what I was looking for. The next best thing to grayscale would be some kind of sepia tone, or just adding a lot of noise. The idea being that I wanted anything that was not the car to look old, with a shiny car standing out against this dull background. Again, I also had to crop in to the car, as too much background tends to be a bad thing on the site. In this case, I think this is a pity, as the concept of the photo would possibly stand a bit more background.



That has ended up being a touch overdone, and I may well go back afterwards and do some more work on it.