Well two stories rolled into one here. First I know this isn't the best shot, I liked it and wanted to post it.
So now for the stories. I run a home theater forum that has a handful of hobbiest photographers who participate. We run a weekly challenge where we all shoot something from a topic and then the winner - based on a poll in the thread - picks the next week's topic. This week's topic was advertisements. While I suspect most of the other guys will post pictures of actual advertisements they saw (i.e. a funny billboard or sign) I decided to actually make my own ad, hence the logo and text.
Second story... My intent was to go out and try my hand at balancing strobe with ambient and get some nice sunset shots of my car. Unfortunately once I got setup I discovered that I only had one cable to fire my Calumet's with my Cactus v4 trigger (I have two receivers but I only had one cable). So I thought when it got a little darker the second one would trigger optically. Unfortunately I could never make that happen and still have the lights where I wanted. So from a strobist perspective the entire shoot was a bust. But I did manage to snag the attached natural light shot and through the magic of post processing, salvage it.
After all that, if you're still reading, here is my shot.
