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Originally Posted by Genteel Death

The guy's car was pretty nice and clean to start with. I've used a Sigma 1.4 lens with, if I remember correctly, the ISO set to around 2500 on the camera to expose it better in dodgy lighting. I normally don't go higher than that. In post-production I've lowered the highlights a bit and when I did the black and white conversion I've tweaked the noise reduction on Luminar AI to see if it compensated for the high ISO. Not that I'm averse to low light noise in some situations. In a way, when I look at the final results now, I think this photo is a little too overdone for my liking.

aaaah thanks for explaining, and yes it's not in the style of all the rest, so "not your style" maybe, but it's great in its own way regardless, like a desaturated nicolas winding refn film still. and your grasping of the subject doesn't suffer in the least (for me anyway), and if anything i'd say the finishing adds to it by making the car also the subject.