Focus RS & Classic mini!

[Matt_90]

Did a test shoot this evening with a few of my friends cars to test out some lighting! Thought I would share some of them with you

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[Hixle]

Awesome shots Matt! What lighting are you using?

 

[Stefan.]

lovely cars, rs wheels need to be silver imo

 

[Matt_90]

I shot them with Prolite flash heads, which I plugged in to a small generator lol! If the focus was mine it would have silver wheels

I think this one is my favourite -

I will add more to my Flickr here - http://www.flickr.com/photos/27647462@N08/

 

[Scrooge]

Mk1 grills ftw!

 

[DaveDreads]

So how are you balancing the lights with the daylight to get an even exposure?

Are you using a light meter and checking ambient daylight,
then metering the flashes and getting them within the same aperture give or take a stop or two either way?

Or are you taking multiple images and exposing for sky, the car, shadows, mid tones & highlites etc,
and building a composite image in photoshop?

 

[Matt_90]

The images are all single images. I was using the cameras built in metering to roughly determine the ambient daylight, I then stopped it down so I could keep the correct exposure for the sky and then set the flashes to full power, took a few test shots and adjusted my aperture accordingly.

Hope that makes sense

 

[DaveDreads]

Makes perfect sense mate, i'm a portrait studio photographer by trade,
but i've never used them outdoors, they're good results for a single exposure.

Bracketing the exposure ftw. :approve:

How much tweaking in photoshop did you have to do?

 

[Matt_90]

Not as much as I thought I use LR4 so it was a few tweaks of the levels and some cropping, then adjusted a few areas with an adjustment brush and that was about it.

I am happy with the results, I am shooting a LY 182 on wednesday, so hopefully I can have a another play with them

 

[Hixle]

Awesome mate.

Don't fancy shooting my car anytime do you?

I just want to see how you do the lighting! Really is well lit.

 

[Revels]

Why do the really good photographers on here never take photos of bloody Clios? Lol.

Maybe we'll have an alternative calendar.

(Or just do Luke's)

 

[Silent_Scone]

Because it's a lot easier to take a nice picture of a car that's interesting lol?

That lost shot is epic!

 

[Kane.]

Awesome shots

 

[Matt_90]

Why do the really good photographers on here never take photos of bloody Clios? Lol.

Maybe we'll have an alternative calendar.

(Or just do Luke's)

I am shooting a LY182 tomorrow night lol! I will post up results just for you

Cheers for the comments guys!

 

[Habitual]

Those are cracking mate - good stuff! Thanks for sharing your lighting techniques, that's good to know.

 

[Matt_90]

Awesome mate.

Don't fancy shooting my car anytime do you?

I just want to see how you do the lighting! Really is well lit.

Hi Luke sorry I missed your comment, Drop me a PM and I am sure we can arrange something

 

[DaveDreads]

Are you using brollies, soft boxes, or just the lights reflectors,
also what wattage are the lights?

 

[Matt_90]

I used one shoot through umbrella, at the rear of the car! I am going to use both my umbrellas and softbox this evening though and see what resultsI get

 

[DanFreemanPhoto]

Not a bad effort that.

Just need to work on lighting the car more evenly, like the front quarter of the Focus shots for example.

Takes a LOT of practice and experience which I wish I had tbh.

 

[NFox]

Looks great

 

[Matt_90]

Not a bad effort that.

Just need to work on lighting the car more evenly, like the front quarter of the Focus shots for example.

Takes a LOT of practice and experience which I wish I had tbh.

Cheers Dan!

I will hopefully have more light tonight as I am going to shoot a bit earlier unlike the other evening and hopefully I will have more than an hour! I am also going to use my flash guns aswell to maybe introduce some more light to the dark areas.

I will keep trying

 

[JoeyD]

Reeeaaaally want an old mini like that at some point, looks amazing!
Fantastic pictures, as has been said.