An interesting photographic problem

[eronald]

Seen in the street (S6 Edge photo).
How would one go about photographing this thing properly?
It looks like a CGI model

Edmund

[george2787]

In a big black studio and armed with patience

[Hank Keeton]

You did pretty damn-well.....!!

[haplo602]

I have seen a similar car (same surface finish) a few times and each time I had to look a few times to make sure it is real. The car looks strange, like made of glass.

Basically you can do the same as any other shiny metal object. Define the shape by reflections.

I am with the dark studio suggestion Colored paper and a few lights can do crazy stuff with this kind of subject.

[Chris Livsey]

https://www.calphoto.co.uk/product/K-Line-Dulling-Spray-Matte/193-290C

Not what you had in mind I suspect  

[gazwas]

I'd ask Marty McFly but you'd probably need 1.21 gigawatts.

[Bart_van_der_Wolf]

Seen in the street (S6 Edge photo).
How would one go about photographing this thing properly?
It looks like a CGI model

Other than a proper HDRI shot on site, the commercial approach would indeed be via a CGI model of the car and a sILB ( smart Image Based Lighting) enabled rendering engine. A choice of sILBs can then be used, for different user/location presentations.

Shooting the car in a controlled light studio only gets you that far, but it would still require realistic scene reflections to bring out the design goals. Much more efficient to do it as CGI and with sILB rendering.

Cheers,
Bart

[dchew]

Don't forget to first get to know your subject before photographing it. I suspect driving it for at least 200km at various speeds should do.

 

[tochnia]

You can see 12 photos of such cars done by appointment for Mercedes here: http://wallpapers.mi9.com/wallpapers/mercedes-benz-chrome-body-collection_3391/

This one is my favorite:



There was article how photographer was just driving in this country road /I think in France/ and decide this is good location and reflections obviously

[SecondFocus]

Interesting! Just last week I saw an all "chrome" new Corvette. I thought it was pretty amazing!