The automotive strobist setup pic thread

51OAU wrote in post #10171673
what do u mean u paste the images together?

What he'll do is take the multiple exposures where he's lit indivudual parts of the subject and composite them into one shot via PS.

Lowpro wrote in post #10170409
just started doing this myself, I use 1 580EXII then paste the images together on PS.

something like light painting right?
ull have someone standing at different positions around the car holding the flash?

I noticed most people are using bare flashes I expected to see more softboxes and umbrellas, any reasons for this? Are the strobes a little under powered if shot through a diffuser?

With cars there's really no reason to use diffusers. Typically it hurts more than helps because hot spots and light reflections increase in size dramatically.

Unless your diffusers are bed sheet sized and you're using them to help light a darker car

51OAU wrote in post #10171673
what do u mean u paste the images together?

3 different exposures, each exposure had the flash at a different location to highlight a certain part of the car. I took those 3 exposures and put them together in PS by using layers.

Gusarb wrote in post #10177886
something like light painting right?
ull have someone standing at different positions around the car holding the flash?

are you asking me if I did light painting? These were shot with a speedlight, it wasnt light painting. Light painting is a cool way of taking shots though. Its a really good way to take shots of a black car cause strobes will just make specular highlights.

had another go at light painting, 1 430ex speedlite flashed on the car at full power.

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not 100% sure if these count as "strobist shots" but rather light paniting... they are at night (pitch black) and lit with a hand held LED torch, about 30-40 second exposure, shot with 450D, 18-55mm (@18mm) on a tripod and with a remote trigger,

(it was a total of 8 different BL and BK series mazda 3's - from ozmazdaclub)

51OAU wrote in post #10194665
had another go at light painting, 1 430ex speedlite flashed on the car at full power.

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Very nice!!

Raymond amazing location. Although I am not sure how I feel about the underexposed background, and the fact that you see the top half of a plane coming up from the rear of the car. Also seems like the lighting on the side panels was a tad bit hot, on my monitor it seems like you are losing a lot of detail on the panels.

i love under exposed backgrounds i love these just not the half airplane in the back of the car

Yeah they were about to close so the lights in the hangar weren't as bright as normal, and the light fall off was insane from the hangar door being open and the back of the hangar being practically dark.

Here's another from outside.

h0z wrote in post #10195010
not 100% sure if these count as "strobist shots" but rather light paniting... they are at night (pitch black) and lit with a hand held LED torch, about 30-40 second exposure, shot with 450D, 18-55mm (@18mm) on a tripod and with a remote trigger,

(it was a total of 8 different BL and BK series mazda 3's - from ozmazdaclub)

they are a few of the pics,

im hoping to get more, and obviously improve on them, but im fairly happy with them for a 1st attempt but thanks to this thread, i have alot more ideas

First one is either OOF or there was some motion blur from an unsteady tripod. Just watch your WB when painting, you need to use custom/manual WB. White LED's tend to be very cool at usually around 7000k.

yeh it was a bit oof, it was pitch black and i was manual focusing, cos it wouldn't auto focus from the lack of light, even with the torches shone onto the car, wasnt a light around for about a kilometer