Hot Rides

[swot]

Team up with our school's Import Cars club, our Photo Club did a car shooting today.

More on my flickr. Click on image:

[jakethepig]

These are excellent swot. All of them are great but the first one is just the best of the set. I think that this one is deffinitely magazine standard. Great work.

Jake

[Drax]

Superb Rides and super PP.

Well done!

BTW, i love Lexus cars. May be one day, you know...

[sybren]

Can you give us some more info on what you did to create those shots? Lighting set up, post processing, etc.

[swot]

The Jaguar car setup:
For the up front shot,
I used 2 (borrowed) bare 580EX on camera left and right pointed downward towards the car
For the angled shot, one's camera left pointing at car front, the other flash is on camera right pointing at the car's body and zoomed out wide.

The Lexus:
2 bare 580ex at around 3 feet high, camera left and right, pointing at the wheel/trunk part of the car at 45˚

As to PP,
the Lexus I have only taken out some really dark but still slightly visible background on top of the frame (where the street lights are) and nothing else.

the Jaguar I tried the "Dave Hill" kind of look by blowing up the clarity, contrast, black point, exposure, and (Which i believe is (fill light something that brightens shadow to get detail, and (recover something that darkens the highlight to get detail). then i desaturate the picture to get the color back from going crazy.



Thanks.~ Glad you guys like it.
This is the first time i try using flashes with cars haha (I own no decent flash)

[A-O]

wow ! that's hot indeed...
great machine... great capture...
love the lighting on #1...

[rohansule]

all r gr8 pics. nice work. love d 1st n d 2nd pic.

[sybren]

Thanks for sharing the details. If you look at the top photo (it's most visible there) you can see that there are quite hard, small highlights. This is due to the bare flash. I think you'll get more of the result you're after if you enlarge the apparent light source size, for example by shooting through an umbrella or bouncing off a wall.

[swot]

Originally Posted by sybren

Thanks for sharing the details. If you look at the top photo (it's most visible there) you can see that there are quite hard, small highlights. This is due to the bare flash. I think you'll get more of the result you're after if you enlarge the apparent light source size, for example by shooting through an umbrella or bouncing off a wall.

Indeed! I didn't notice this until post processing...
at the time of shooting i'm too focused on getting a good flare/highlight on the silver rim on the wheel rather than the car body itself...

I'll definitely try the umbrellas next time!

makes me really want to get 4 flashes haha.~