"Dave Hill" Car

[mercphoto]

Saw some stuff about the "Dave Hill" effect. I realize a lot of the effect comes from paying close attention to the lighting on initial capture, but there appear to be some decent tutorials on how to manipulate an image into the effect, to some degree. Wondering about your thoughts on this attempt:

Original:
http://mercphoto.smugmug.com/photos/306719176_3uGNJ-M.jpg

The effect:
http://mercphoto.smugmug.com/photos/306719068_7q4PG-M.jpg