I photographed Jeff’s truck and car yesterday evening. I took “normal” photographs but I also wanted to create some cool HDR photographs of cars. Right now if I am creating HDRs for vehicles or any kind of product the hope of keeping colors accurate go out the window. There is so much processing that goes into these photos that the pixels are just destroyed and create something new and surreal. Do they look cool? Yes. Do they look accurate? Not so much. I do find that Photoshop CS5 HDRPro will give a closer approximation to the actual vehicle while Photomatix Pro still creates the very surreal look.
Dodge Ram 2500 TRX4 edited in Photoshop CS5's HDRPro
In both cases I actually do like the Photoshop CS5 versions of the vehicles. I did in the case of all the photographs edit a bit in regular photoshop or lightroom to create a bit more contrast or fix some things that were off. There was an annoying light pole coming out of the roof of the truck – I used the content aware fill in the new CS5 to nuke that and it worked alright.
I wish that there was a better way to minimize halos around objects. Photoshop CS5 seems to be a fan of halos, glows, and radius sliders. Boo. And Photoshop CS5 also takes FOREVER to create these HDRs. In the same time I would create one HDR in Photoshop I imported a bridal photoshop and I created 3 HDRs in Photomatix Pro. Hooray for multitasking – boo to Photoshop CS5 HDR Pro for being such a slow moron.
Dodge Ram 2500 TRX4 edited in Photomatix Pro
Jeff is looking to sell his truck – and if you have questions on the 2008 Dodge Ram 2500 TRX4 give Jeff a call at 435-823-6706.
Pontiac G6 GTP edited in Photoshop CS5's HDRPro
If I were to properly photograph cars and trucks, such as in magazines and advertising I am sure I would have to have a huge studio with huge softbox lights and then knock out the background and put the car in some cool location. And I would have to charge hundreds of thousands of dollars. 
Pontiac G6 GTP edited in Photoshop CS5's HDRPro