So you’re looking for auto Environment Backplates. Whether you’re looking for a coastal highway, a rugged country environment to match a 4WD, or a city-scape, we can help.
From coastal drives, freeways, country tracks, bridges, tunnels, straight to curved city streets, car parks to ramps and building sites.
Tarmac, asphalt, bitumen gravel, earth, sand and concrete. We’ve done dawn, daytime, dusk and night with any number of weather conditions.
Yes, here at https://www.bearstock.com we’ve been busy!
All files at 16bit Tif are retouched, lightly graded and ready for use from web to outdoor super-sites. They can be used with or without our 32bit HDR Domes.
BearStock’s images are completely retouched, stylized and graded so that they are ‘art ready’. They can be used in an instant by art teams either stand-alone or with a CGI rendered car model. Importantly, given the company’s industry experience, images are cleansed of all ugly street clutter. Sign posts, traffic lights, telegraph poles, graffiti and even chewing gum marks and cigarettes are all removed to ensure the shots look clean and crisp. That said, on occasion BearStock also provides perfect grungy, dirty city alleys as well!
Another reason for this digital makeover is the need to remove scale. By doing so, art teams have greater freedom to further alter images. For example, turning a two lane road into a single lane to increase focus on a car can be done without forcing perspective or disrupting scale. The removal of words and numbers means that the majority of roads have been retouched so that they can be flipped to work in both left and right-hand-drive markets.
If necessary, roads, footpaths, guard rails, lane marking and damaged structure or architecture is ‘repaired’ digitally. This brings symmetry and continuity to shots. BearStock’s process aims to balance the elements within the picture and create compositions with equilibrium and appealing geometry so that they frame the car to create a great ad.
Urs Buhlman is BearStock’s principal photographer. His portfolio can been see here
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