Nearly broke my Google-fu, but here's the vid ... http://www.petapixel.com/2012/08/05/shooting-a-mini-cooper-at-night-using-giant-bags-of-light
The bag-o-light is by these guys ... http://www.licht-technik.com/eng/html/bol_turn.html This bunch were shooting outside so didn't have the superstructure and needed floating light. On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 2:06 PM, Paul Stenquist <[email protected]> wrote: > Those giant lighting soft boxes are usually called fisher boxes, after the > company that makes them and rents them for shoots. You need a studio with a > superstructure above to mount one, and a lot of equipment to control it. The > idea is that you can tilt it in such a way that it both lights the car and > creates an artificial horizon, reflected in the car. They're most often used > with bulbs (sodium vapor lamps I believe), rather than strobes, since that > makes it easier to set up the lighting. Plus, the same box can be used for > television production as well as stills. They're usual augmented with a > number of flags and flats to fine tune the lighting. > > > On Oct 3, 2012, at 1:52 PM, Bruce Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > >> There was that car advert BTS video someone posted here a few months >> back (I think) where they showed a giant floating light source that >> turned out to be an enormous softbox. A company specializes in >> building and renting these things for shooting cars. >> >> Besides a large soft light source you'd need to flag a lot of glass, >> chrome and polished areas to improve their contrast in the shot. >> >> When I did a table-top shoot of my light meter for a blog article, I >> used my hand as a flag to block direct light from the 24" softbox onto >> the LCD display. That made an enormous difference to the meter's final >> appearance. All covered in the Light, Science & Magic book. >> >> >> On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 1:21 PM, J.C. O'Connell <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Ive never shot cars with flash professionally but I have seen pro setups >>> where the flash diffusers are larger than cars! (soft lighting across the >>> whole vehicle). >>> >>> ----------------- >>> J.C.O'Connell >>> [email protected] >>> ----------------- >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: PDML [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Stenquist >>> Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2012 11:26 AM >>> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> Subject: Re: Photographing cars with a strobe? >>> >>> I've been shooting cars with flash for more than thirty years, both night >>> and day. It isn't a bad idea, but it can be tricky. I don't think it will >>> help you achieve nice compositions in a crowded showroom, but it can work >>> well as fill in daylight or as illumination at night. >>> >>> I used flash for fill on this dreary day shot. It ended up edge-to-edge on >>> the front page of the Times auto section. I was low enough to avoid >>> reflection problems, and I used a diffuser on the flash. It has been shown >>> here before. >>> >>> http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=14450338&size=lg >>> >>> I've used flash on numerous occasions to achieve motion blur effects at >>> night, with a frozen central image. These are usually shot at /.8th of a >>> second while panning: >>> >>> http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3708948&size=lg >>> >>> And I've used it to achieve sharp pics at night as well. I pick a shutter >>> speed and stop that will give me some background illumination without >>> turning it into day, and I tilt the head of the flash up to avoid burning >>> out the foreground. I usually burn in the foreground a bit as well. Could >>> have cloned out the hotspot here but didn't bother since it's not all that >>> distracting. >>> >>> http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=11498399&size=lg >>> >>> Paul >>> >>> >>> >>> On Oct 3, 2012, at 8:45 AM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> I have headed over to Canepa motors a few times to play with photographing >>> cars. There is a lot of pretty machinery there. Unfortunately, there isn't >>> much room and it's pretty much impossible to get a picture of a single car >>> isolated from the other cars on the floor. I had the thought that it might >>> be possible to do something to isolate a car from the background by using >>> strobes and taking advantage of the inverse square law, to light a car, and >>> put a lot less light on any other distracting cars in the background. >>>> >>>> I suspect that there are a lot of pitfalls to this technique, starting >>> with all of the things on most cars that are shiny. >>>> >>>> I've also considered using a strobe to shoot a car outside at night, for >>> very similar reasons. >>>> >>>> Does anyone have experience usign flashes to photograph cars? Can you >>> give me some good simple reasons why this is, if not a bad idea, at least a >>> lot more work than other possible techniques? >>>> >>>> LRC >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>> follow the directions. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> [email protected] >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>> follow the directions. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> [email protected] >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>> follow the directions. >> >> >> >> -- >> -bmw >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
