Strobe Lighting for Car Photography

Hiya guys, I didn't get much time to look into this but I have been appointed with taking some photography for a couple of cars and I was looking into maybe getting 2 softboxes, an umbrella, and a giant white backdrop to use with a lamp behind it as a flash ? I'm looking on B&H Photo and Amazon.com for just some decent equipment that I can use and easily transportable and doesn't take long to setup. I know I need some kind of transmitter for the flash to go off on the other end but I have no idea how that is done...

Is there already a kit that has this all in one package ? I feel overly pressured because the shoot is going to be done by the end of this week and I know shipping is gonna be a hassle if it's not here soon enough..thanks for listening to my rant.

Are you taking these car shots during the day or at night? You will not be able to use a lamp behind a white sheet to create enough light. But given this scenario I'm assuming you're shooting at night. Since the background will not matter too much or at least because the ambient lighting is lessened I would just go with strobes/speedlites. You could even accomplish this using one flash and a long shutter speed of a couple of seconds. You can walk around the vehicle popping the flash(hit test/pilot button) to expose whatever areas you wish. Softboxes and umbrellas don't seem to be used that much and a handheld strobe pointed directly at the car or at the ground just in front of it seems to suffice.

emitecaps wrote in post #11161047
You can walk around the vehicle popping the flash(hit test/pilot button) to expose whatever areas you wish. Softboxes and umbrellas don't seem to be used that much and a handheld strobe pointed directly at the car or at the ground just in front of it seems to suffice.

The problem with this is that the car is being lit from the reflection of the light on the ground. If you're shooting certain color cars, you'll be able to see the texture from the ground in the paint and it looks bad.

This will be an indoor shooting and all the walls are white however the floor is black. I don't know what to do in my dilemma, I do have 2 speedlites but it doesn't seem sufficient enough or is it ?

the trick is going to be layers. 2 flashes is enough, just put the camera on a tripod, shoot, then move the flahses around. light the front of the car, then the side fender, then the doors, then the rear. It's how most of us car-nerds do it, so you don't need 15 lights

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