The automotive strobist setup pic thread

Mike Bowen wrote in post #9725906
2 sunpak 422 outside and another one inside the cockpit to light up the seats

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Love this shot!

The seat lighting is a nice touch to such a simple set up, great job.

Daniel

Great thread!
Here are a couple of my shots, hopefully they are ok for this thread.

Approx 5min exposure, car light painted with LED torch, interior green gelled wireless flash, trees red gelled hand triggered flash, front and rear or car hand triggered ungelled flash.

is there a need for such long exposures?

Both shots are shot in almost complete darkness. The first shot is so long to get the star trails in the background (imposible to get with a fast exposure without stacking multiple shots)) and the ambient light from the town 15kms away, there was no moon light. Also gave me time to walk around and paint the car, trees and ground.

Second shot was taken in my shed no lights, all flash and torch, you need a bit of time time to move about and do this, also needed the exposure to bring up the "ambient" a little.

The long exposure also makes it possible to use low ISO to help with noise.

Cheers
Daniel

Two speedlights.......one behind the rear wheel and the other to the right of camera.

goatydude wrote in post #10146972
Both shots are shot in almost complete darkness. The first shot is so long to get the star trails in the background (imposible to get with a fast exposure without stacking multiple shots)) and the ambient light from the town 15kms away, there was no moon light. Also gave me time to walk around and paint the car, trees and ground.

Second shot was taken in my shed no lights, all flash and torch, you need a bit of time time to move about and do this, also needed the exposure to bring up the "ambient" a little.

The long exposure also makes it possible to use low ISO to help with noise.

Cheers
Daniel

true true nice pics to, something different.

i had a go at this tonight just hand held my 430exII and flashed the car about 7ft high and bout 5 ft from the car. C&C welcome. the car is just my bros peace of **** work ute, didn't take mine since its a dark blue.

Without added vignetting

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Looks good,

Love the angle and setting. I like the one without vignette, the vignette makes the other shot look a little dark, but everyones preferences are different.
You have done a good job with the flash, a bit of fine tuning and you could probably get rid of the shadows in front/side of the car.

I think you have made your bros ute look pretty good, pitty bout the ford badge

Cheers
Daniel

set-up:

Forgot to take a set up shot. But its three AB 1600s lighting the truck and I used a 580EXII to get a little more detail in the front wheel on.

Those look great Josh! Congratulations!

Damn this page is awesome! Really like post #324

just started doing this myself, I use 1 580EXII then paste the images together on PS.

what do u mean u paste the images together?