The making of "The Flash on Route 66"

This is how I made my picture of The Flash on Route 66. I took the picture of The Flash several months ago and didn't have any idea of what to do with the picture. I ended up thinking it would be nice to put The Flash in a street in New York or something, but I didn't have a picture of a street in a big city from a low angle. I used a picture of Route 66 that I shot in 2011 instead.

I used one light on The Flash, like this:
http://glennmeling.blogspot.no/2013/01/how-i-photograph-my-figures.html

The statue is the DC Universe Online Statue. Measures approx. 5.75 H x 6 W x 3.5 D.

THE PICTURES I USED (The lightning and route 66 logo is stock, the rest I shot my self):

STEP BY STEP:

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How The Flash was shot with one flash :)

Added the road and tweaked it using Free Transform and Distort to change the perspective.

Brightened The Flash and added a shadow.

Added some motion trail and dodge and burn on The flash to enhance the muscles.

Added the Route 66 logo, toned down the lines on each side to match the logo and retouch one crack.

Bringing in the new sky.

Added some lightning on the Flash, more saturation and contrast.

Added a sun of some kind using Knoll Light Factory.

Changed the colors on the whole picture.

Added some motion using the filter Radial Blur and the blur method zoom.

Cropped it, added a vignette and finished.

Finn Nielsen

This is my father-in-law, Finn Nielsen, at the island Herføl in Norway. He owns a cabin which is located right behind him and the tree line in this picture. We spent the easter vacation there.

I shot this picture with a Sony DSC-RX100 compact camera in raw format, and the light source was the sun. 

The shot was a test shot for a picture I was supposed to shoot this summer (2013) with flashes, diffusers and so on, but I liked how it turned out so maybe we will skip the summer shoot.

The Sony DSC-RX100 compact camera is a great camera by the way.

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This is how it was shot, a little underexposed.

Camera Raw edit.

Then some edit in Photoshop and finished.