AMAZING auto photographer/Siphon cover
 

This guy is one of the very best IMO. He shot the HKS Fit on the cover of the last issue of Siphon. If you scroll down on his site (from the link provided) you see his insane original shot that the magazine ended up modifying to fit the cover.

Overall his work is pretty amazing.

Steve Demmitt Photography : Follow your bliss..

I remember Steve from BACK in the day. He had such a clean EK! We were both on www.civichatchback.com. his photography has progressed alot. Here is his old site... optikdesign.net

I don't know. Some of his stuff is really, really good, and some is very poorly photo shopped. Maybe that is the look he was going for (for advertising or something)....?

Has some decent stuff but most of it is photoshopped to hell. Honestly it looks like he spends more time on the computer then behind the camera IMO.

Definately seen alot better.

Thanks for saying what I was avoiding.

Rest assured he spends more time at the computer. That's the style. To me that is an artform in and of itself. He's taking the image closer to his idea than he could with the capture alone. It's more about design than just straight photography.

I really like Erik Tong. He actully started by shooting some of the clubrsx's guys car as well as his own rsx and I guess his career has somewhet taken off. Great vision in his photos though.

Eric Tong Photography ©

1 picture of the fit chopped 3 different ways, boo

exactly. its sometimes to hard to capture what you want on a camera so it needs to be edited to the way you want it

If he spends more time on the computer than behind the camera then he's a Graphic Designer not a Photographer IMO...

Some of his stuff is pretty good, that HDR of the Lexus is hideous though.

Oh my. Well this is clearly not the place for a debate about what modern photography is, and the "designer/vs. photographer" label thing is just flat out silly and I will not go there as it goes nowhere.

I will think twice before making posts with this type of content in the future.

Very nice work. I like his stuff a lot. Another one that's not for these "purists", though.

Some nice photoshop work with good photography.

WOW! Very impressive.

Tyler

got this link from 8thcivic
Gallery Presentation - photo.net
this guys got some skills. no SLR involved, not too much photoshop either

Indeed he does have skills.

What? There is photoshop work done in EVERY shot there. Granted he does very nice work, and it takes a LOT of skill, but in my personal opinion, I think photoshop took a lot of the skill OUT of photography.

...maybe I am just old fashioned.

You are indeed old fashioned ;).

Go to a major photography forum like Nikon Café and you'll find most photographers (Professionals and hobbiest) will look down on excessive photoshopping. Not to say the pictures don't look amazing, but you can't call it photography if half or more of the picture wasn't even done with a camera.

The guy is by no means untalented but I'd draw a line at anything you couldn't do with film and a darkroom.

I think it comes down to personal taste, but I am about 95% in agreement with him ^^^^^^^